T. W. Paterson – Riches To Ruin

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The boom to bust saga of Vancouver Island’s greatest copper mine, 1895-1908.

Chapter highlights include:
Building the Lenora, Mount Sicker Railway and the Tyee tramway
Crofton, the ‘new smelter centre of the Pacific’
Mount Brenton’s mine manager was a sentimental softie
On the mountain and in the bowels of the earth
The missing teamster who was suspected to be Victoria’s Jack the Ripper
A freak of explosives
‘Oh, come quick, Mr. Beech is trying to kill my mother!’

ISBN – 9780921271212
8.5 x 5.5 – 304 pages – $24.95
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