The town of Phoenix was a mining town who's copper mines played out after the First World War. This image shows the deteriorating town with very few buildings still standing.

In Collection:

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Contributor

• Lyons, C. P. (Chester Peter), 1915-

Subject

• Ghost towns
• Cities and towns
• Nature
• British Columbia. Ministry of Forests
• Buildings
• Natural history
• BC Parks

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1930s

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only

Extent

• 1 photograph ; 25 x 20.5cm

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Kootenay Boundary
• British Columbia--Regional District of Kootenay-Boundary--Phoenix

Coordinates

• 49.09979, -118.58562

Additional physical characteristics

• In a folder labelled "Historic picture Kootenays and miscellaneous [ca.1898]"

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Chester P. Lyons Collection

Provenance

• Fonds donated to UVic Archives by Lyons' daughter, Susan Lyons, in 2007.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• photographs
• black-and-white photographs

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2007-039; Series: Photographic materials; Subseries: 03; File: 4.6

Fonds title

• Chester P. Lyons fonds

Fonds identifier

• AR409

Is referenced by

• Archival Finding Aid: https://search.archives.uvic.ca/chester-p-lyons-fonds

Date digitized

• February 28, 2025 to March 4, 2025

Technical note

• Scanned on Epson Expression 1300XL (600 DPI tif LL). Metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is under copyright and made available on this site for research and private study only. Commercial use is prohibited. For all other uses please contact UVic Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/njtc-qw75

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