City: Sandon

Avalanche on Highway 31A E 1956

Avalanche between New Denver BC & Kalso BC before the turn-off into Sandon 1956

Internal ID:	2379.0003
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1956

Sandon, BC

Wedding party leaving Sandon, B.C. on Sept. 7th 1904.

Internal ID:	0266.0004
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	September 7th 1904

Avalanche on Highway 31A E 1956

Avalanche between New Denver BC & Kalso BC before the turn-off into Sandon 1956

Internal ID:	2379.0004
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1956

Sandon, B.C.

Sandon, B.C. before the fire in 1899.

Internal ID:	0266.0005
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1898

Sandon Train Wreck

A derailment of steam locomotive #406 between Sandon, B.C. and Three Forks - 1905. The rail brakes did not hold and the fireman was killed. Note section of track torn out.

Internal ID:	0266.0010
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Air Photo

Air photo taken of Sandon in 1969.

Internal ID:	0501.0025
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1969

Air Photo

Air photo taken of Sandon in 1939.

Internal ID:	0501.0026
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1939

Sandon, BC

View of Sandon, BC

Internal ID:	2309.0026
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Hardware Ad

Hamilton Byers, stores in Kaslo and Sandon.

Internal ID:	0054.0040
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 23rd 1896

Kaslo News

Newspaper

Internal ID:	0054.0066
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 20th 1896

Sandon, BC

"View of Sandon, BC. Shows peculiar situation in a pocket between mountains. Should there be a slide from any directions, there would not be much of Sandon left."

Internal ID:	0456.0075
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	0000

Curling in Sandon, BC 1900

Crawford VS Hood rinks competing in Sandon BC January 1st, 1900

Internal ID:	2285.0075
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Sandon, BC

"View of Sandon, BC. Shows peculiar situation in a pocket between mountains. Should there be a slide from any directions, there would not be much of Sandon left."

Internal ID:	0456.0076
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Main Street of Sandon, BC

"Main Street of Sandon, BC showing narrow streets which are accounted for, for lack of space."

Internal ID:	0456.0077
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Sandon News

Newspaper

Internal ID:	0054.0079
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 27th 1896

Sandon, BC

Ruins of hotel in Sandon, BC House still may be inhabited.

Internal ID:	0143.0079
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1980

Chinese Discrimination

Newspaper article miners of Sandon do not want Chinese workers and use any means necessary to keep them out.

Internal ID:	0050.0092
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 23rd 1898

Kaslo News

News of Kaslo and area - mining, business, baseball, etc.

Internal ID:	0054.0119
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 15th 1896

Kaslo News

Newspaper

Internal ID:	0054.0135
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 5th 1896

Sandon Hotel, Sandon, B.C

Sandon Hotel, Sandon, B.C. Built after the fire May 3, 1900 that destroyed the Reco Hotel.

Internal ID:	0131.0136
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Sandon, B.C.

C.P.R. station and Hotel Reco, the morning before the fire May 3, 1900, Sandon, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0138
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	May 3rd 1900

Sandon, B.C.

Sandon, B.C. in flames during big fire of May 3, 1900.

Internal ID:	0131.0139
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	May 3rd 1900

Sandon, B.C

General view of Sandon, B.C. before the 1900 fire.

Internal ID:	0131.0140
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1898

Rambler-Cariboo Mine

We had this identified as the Silversmith Mine, located near Sandon, B.C., but a knowledgeable user of the site has told us that it is in fact the Rambler-Cariboo Mine.

Internal ID:	0131.0141
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Sovereign Mine Tramway

Sovereign Mine Tramway, near Sandon, B.C. Showing timber hooks and one ore bucket.

Internal ID:	0131.0142
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1920

Silversmith Mine

We had this identified as the Silversmith mine, Sandon B.C., but a knowledgeable user of the site has said this is the Rambler-Cariboo mine, located in the McGuigan Creek basin east of Sandon. It was a major producer in the Slocan silver rush, producing continuously from 1895 to 1935, then periodically until 1951.

Internal ID:	0131.0147
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Livery Ad

Newspaper advertisement

Internal ID:	0054.0151
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 26th 1896

Telegraphic Strike

Newspaper

Internal ID:	0054.0157
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 3rd 1896

Kaslo Notes

Railway construction, ministers and government offices.

Internal ID:	0054.0190
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 6th 1895

Kaslo Notes

Lovatt's sawmill and school both move.

Internal ID:	0054.0192
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 13th 1895

Sandon News

CPR impacting Sandon's townsite.

Internal ID:	0054.0197
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 27th 1895

Sandon, B.C.

Sandon, B.C., one of the most active mining towns in the West Kootenay region.

Internal ID:	0131.0218
Medium:	Postcard
Date:	1925

Sandon, B.C.

View of downtown Sandon, B.C., 1918. Catholic church in the foreground with City Hall to its right and the Methodist church next to it. Larger building on mountainside to left is the school (1900) with the Miners' Union Hospital (1906) above it.

Internal ID:	0131.0495
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1918

Trail Mining News

Lots of mining news for West Kootenay points.

Internal ID:	0054.0505
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 25th 1896

Sandon, B.C.

Prospector's cabin alongside Carpenter Creek and about one mile below Sandon, B.C., ca. 1925.

Internal ID:	0131.0508
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1925

Last Chance Mine

Lower terminal of the Last Chance Mine, Sandon, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0511
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1900

Reco Mining Co.'s Pack Train

Reco Mining Co.'s pack train of horses at Noble Five Slide, Sandon, B.C. ca. 1896.

Internal ID:	0131.0513
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1896

Payne Mine

The Payne Mine ore house and tramway at Sandon, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0515
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Sandon, B.C.

View of Sandon, B.C., showing the way the valley was stripped for mining.

Internal ID:	0131.0516
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Sandon, B.C.

The Miner's Union Block and Louie Boot & Shoe Store, Sandon, B.C.

Internal ID:	0131.0517
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Sandon, B.C.

General view of Sandon, B.C. - after being flooded and abandoned.

Internal ID:	0131.0518
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1958

Sandon, BC

Looking west from the Cody Branch of the Kaslo and Slocan Railway, at Mile 1.85, looking down into the upper end at Sandon, B.C. Sandon Creek valley upper to middle left of the photo. Carpenter Creek below.

Internal ID:	0131.0519
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1905

Downtown Sandon, BC, 1918

View of Sandon, B.C. In foreground is the Catholic church with City Hall to its right and then the Methodist church. On the mountainside to left of picture is the school and the Miners' Union Hospital (built 1906).