How a B.C. town is finding new life, more than 50 years after its mine closed

How a B.C. town is finding new life, more than 50 years after its mine closed

When David Crowther arrived in Britannia Beach, B.C., in January 1974, the mine was still running.“I moved there as a 16-year-old … and it was still a company town,” he says.The Britannia Mine, which operated from 1904 to November 1974,

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