Ymir is the poster child for sleepy little towns, a tiny little village/hamlet consisting of the leftovers from a gold mining boom town of the 1890s. As one would expect, there isn't a lot of the original town left. There's the Ymir Hotel, the fire hall (1897), a rooming house which is now an apartment building, a grocery store, a community hall, a Catholic Church, now a private residence, and a handful of houses. Ymir, incidentally, was named for
YMIR, a primeval being of Norse mythology.
The village has been able to survive, partially on the tourist industry, and so has created a small campground right on Main street, directly across from the Ymir Hotel. Imagine our surprise when, yesterday, we putted down Main Street and discovered that at some time during this year (2016) the village had built a skatepark at the north edge of the campground. It's not large, its not extravagant and its not elaborate, but then, neither is Ymir. As a diversion for the very few kids in the town, as well as ones who might be holed up in the campground, it would seem to be a perfectly serviceable skatepark.
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 1860s 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.
From the Ymir Website