On our way home we stopped at Ymir. This is a very interesting historic town, and well worth visiting. No too sure about the "Wild and Woolly", except in its day it was a booming town. No doubt it was wild and woolly.
"Ymir is a small town in the West Kootenays in British Columbia Canada. The population is somewhere between 200 and 300 people. Ymir was a booming mining town in the late 1800's, with many hotels and a very modern hospital.
The earliest miners in the area arrived in 1860's when mining claims were recorded on Quartz Creek. In 1885, the Hall brothers and their group prospected on Wild Horse Creek. The Nelson and Fort Sheppard Company laid track through the Salmo River Valley in 1893, linking the United States with the Kootenay goldfields.
The Ymir mine was first staked in 1895 and by 1896, the Dundee, Tamarack, Porto Rico and others were staked as well. In 1897, three Rossland businessmen filed claim to 620 acres in the area surrounding Quartz Creek. Within two weeks, the land was surveyed, lots were sold and the roots of the town of Ymir were created."
Information Gleaned From The Village of Ymir
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