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!’

298 pages.

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