Copper Street - Greenwood, BC
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N 49° 05.286 W 118° 40.642
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As Highway 3 makes its way through Greenwood, Canada's smallest city, it changes its name to Copper Street. Its informational sign is beside the Boundary Creek News building on Copper Street.
Waymark Code: WMHZB4
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 08/31/2013
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Greenwood was just one of dozens of mining towns which sprang up in the boundary country of southern BC in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some of the first buildings to go up were several wood frame hotels, such as The Pioneer, The Imperial, The Windsor and this one, The Pacific. It was built the first time around 1896, the second time in 1899 and the third time in 1907. Third time must have been a charm, as it is still with us today.
Today it still holds artefacts from its time as a World War II Japanese internment building but is no longer operate as a hotel. On the ground floor is the Pacific Grille, a country style restaurant which has gotten a mess of rave reviews at Trip Adviser.
During the prosperous years of the late 1890s when copper was king, this street was one of the busiest thoroughfares in the old west, and little wonder, because in those days Greenwood was the capital of the boundary country. Fully 2000 people called it home and strung out along its two mile by half mile townsite more than 100 businesses (including 14 hotels, two newspapers, two banks and a 1000 seat opera house) catered to their varied needs. The boom years of mining have gone but Copper Street is still here and so is the city of Greenwood.
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