Silvery Slocan Museum - New Denver, BC
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N 49° 59.501 W 117° 22.598
11U E 473003 N 5537773
On the corner of Bellevue Avenue and 6th Avenue in downtown New Denver, this former Bank of Montreal is now the Silvery Slocan Museum.
Waymark Code: WMNBRQ
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 02/08/2015
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This was the first Bank of Montreal built in British Columbia, having been built in 1896, at the height of the silver boom in the Slocan area of BC. This building, then, is a perfect choice of location for a local history museum as it lived to witness most of the ups and downs in the history of the Silvery Slocan. Its vault even held much of the silver which came out of the area's mines.
New Denver itself is in the Slocan Valley but the silver strikes occured to the east in the Sandon area. New Denver, being on a railroad and a navigable lake, became a transportation and supply centre and a jumping off point to the Sandon area. As a result, the Bank of Montreal built its first BC bank here, to cash in on the silver boom.
The Silvery Slocan Historical Society, operators of the museum, was incorporated April 28, 1971. The New Denver Visitor Centre is also housed within the former bank.
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