Mining meaning: telling spatial histories of the Britannia Mine
Mining looms large in the history of the province of British Columbia (BC) in Canada. From the heady days of the Fraser and Cariboo gold rushes in the 1850s and 1860s, to the development of hard rock mining in the Kootenay region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the massive open pit mines of the post-war period, mining has been …