Rosebery

ROSEBERY, 4 km northeast of NEW DENVER on SLOCAN LK, was a CPR shipyard and rail barge terminus and a station on the Nakusp & Slocan Rwy. Tref Nault, an early logger in the NAKUSP area, cleared the townsite in 1893, and a SAWMILL and concentrator were built. Ore from the Slocan Valley was unloaded here and barged to SMELTERS at TRAIL and in the US. Rosebery is still a log sorting and booming ground (see LOG BOOMING; LOGGING). It was named after the Earl of Rosebery, a CPR director and former...

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