Hi keisu Britannia Beach (copper mine) comes to mind right off the top. Try: http://www.google.com/ with the keywords: mining activity Vancouver 1910 (I got over 900 hits, if you change the keywords you will be able to narrow down the search) For those who don't have a continuing connection is difficult to realize that persons who were working in British Columbia at any time during the first one-hundred years of European settlers it is difficult to wrap our minds around the distances one would travel to work and the vastness of British Columbia. In the history of one generation extended members of various branches of my family moved from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and the Bering Straits throughout their working life (my g-grandfather lived and worked in all of the above between 19 and 76) http://www2.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2vsm change the last letter to d for death; b for birth and you will be able to search for all sorts of information that fit the privacy criteria. > Hallo all! > > A realtive om mine Johan (or John) Bergstrom (born 1888) worked in a mine in the Vancouver area ca 1910-1917. He married there before returning to Sweden. Anyone that might know which mines that existed in the Vancouver area at that time? Are there also any chance of finding the marriage records for him and his wife ? > > greetings > Hakan Bergstrom > Brussels, Belgium > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Check the list's archives out at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html >
Re mines in the Van. area - 1910 - 1917. My father and grandfather were miners, and they worked at various mines on Vancouver Island, at Brittania Beach, at Coalmont outside of Princeton, B.C., and when my Dad was 5, in 1911, the family moved to Kellog, Idaho, to work in the mines there for a while. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennice Goudie" <dennice-goudie@home.com> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] Mines in the Vancouver area > Hi keisu > > Britannia Beach (copper mine) comes to mind right off the top. > > Try: > http://www.google.com/ > with the keywords: mining activity Vancouver 1910 > (I got over 900 hits, if you change the keywords you will be able to narrow > down the search) > > For those who don't have a continuing connection is difficult to realize > that persons who were working in British Columbia at any time during the > first one-hundred years of European settlers it is difficult to wrap our > minds around the distances one would travel to work and the vastness of > British Columbia. In the history of one generation extended members of > various branches of my family moved from Oregon, Washington, British > Columbia and the Bering Straits throughout their working life (my > g-grandfather lived and worked in all of the above between 19 and 76) > > http://www2.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/cgi-bin/www2vsm change the last letter to d > for death; b for birth and you will be able to search for all sorts of > information that fit the privacy criteria. > > > > > Hallo all! > > > > A realtive om mine Johan (or John) Bergstrom (born 1888) worked in a mine > in the Vancouver area ca 1910-1917. He married there before returning to > Sweden. Anyone that might know which mines that existed in the Vancouver > area at that time? Are there also any chance of finding the marriage records > for him and his wife ? > > > > greetings > > Hakan Bergstrom > > Brussels, Belgium > > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > > Check the list's archives out at > > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Every two months or so, please repost your interests, > telling us what you know and where you've looked > and what you still need to find out. > >