BC Copper Company Smokestack - Greenwood, BC
N 49° 05.036 W 118° 41.068
11U E 377003 N 5438152
The BC Copper Company Smokestack is 36m (121ft) high. A prominent landmark on the edge of Greenwood overlooking the huge Slag Pile.
Waymark Code: WM9529
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 06/29/2010
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From the Greenwood Museum
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The smelter was originally built with a sheet steel smokestack that was replaced by the present brick stack when the works were expanded in 1904. The brick stack was originally 36 metres, the highest in the province, and contained nearly 250000 bricks.
February 18, 1901 marked the blowing in of the first furnace. The smelter was open 24 hours a day and employing 47 men during the first year. That year 106000 tonnes of ore was smelted. On January 18, 1902 a record amount , 416 tonnes, (about 9 tonnes for every man employed), were smelted. the smelter operated very successfully until 1912 when shortages of ore began to affect production. Throughout World War l the smelter worked intermittently at a reduced rate and on November 26, 1918 closed forever. the plant was sold to Leon Lotzkar who disposed of the machinery and later gave the site to the City of Greenwood as a park.