British Columbia History

Princeton and District Museum and Archives

“There’s history everywhere you turn here, if you choose to see it.” — Todd Davidson, Princeton and District Museum and Archives

Each bend of the Crowsnest Highway unveils a new vista of mountains, serpentine rivers and forests. Climb the summit of the Allison Pass and motor beyond Manning Park to multiple switchbacks that serve as grand escalators to the Similkameen Valley bottom. Nearby Copper Mountain, Granite Creek and Hedley drew the first miners, and half-a-dozen ghost towns in the area still whisper those stories. Silvery

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