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Britannia Mine Museum

V0N 1J0 Britannia Beach, Canada (British Columbia)
Address 1 Forbes Way
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Trucks / Lorries
  • Cranes and Lifts
  • Mine- & Parc Railways
  • Lamps and Light
  • Historic Engineering Landmarks

Opening times
 Monday - Friday: 9:30am - 4:30pm; Site Closes: 5:00pm
Saturday, Sunday and Holidays: 9:30am - 4:30am
Tour Time: Monday - Friday: 3:00pm

Admission
Status from 02/2019
 Adult (18+): $29.95; Senior (65+): $26.95; Youth (13-17): $23.95
Child (5-12): $18.95; Daily Family: $110.00
Contact
Tel.:+1-800-896-40 44  Fax:+1-604-896-22 60  
Tel.2:+1-604-896-22 33 - press 0  eMail:company.store bcmm.ca  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.britanniaminemuseum.ca
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Location / Directions
N49.623730° W123.204983°N49°37.42380' W123°12.29898'N49°37'25.4280" W123°12'17.9388"
Britannia Beach is a small unincorporated community in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District located approximately 55 kilometers north of Vancouver, British Columbia on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on Howe Sound.

Wear comfy shoes. It takes 48 steps up to where the train departs.
Consider bringing a sweater. The underground train ride is cool. Literally and figuratively.

The Museum is an easy 45-minute drive north of Vancouver. Take the Trans-Canada #1 to Horseshoe Bay then veer onto Hwy 99. Known as the Sea-to-Sky Highway, you'll cruise alongside beautiful Howe Sound. When you pass Furry Creek you will be just 5 minutes away.

From Whistler:
Coming from Whistler, head south on Hwy 99. Find the museum about 10 minutes south of Squamish.
Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Britannia Mine Museum, formerly British Columbia Museum of Mining, preserves and presents to the public information and artifacts related to British Columbia's mining industry.

National historic site

The museum is the site of Mill 3, also called the Concentrator. This 20 storey building, a gravity fed concentrator for ore processing, was designated as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1987. The Britannia Mine was an important source of copper ore for almost 70 years and during the 1920s and 1930s it constituted one of the largest mining operations in Canada. The gravity-fed concentrator was highly innovative, as, for example, in the use of bulk froth flotation.

Buildings and site

The museum oversees 23 historic industrial, administrative and domestic buildings, over 7000 artifacts, 9500 archive photos and 3000 archival documents and maps. Visitors are given a train ride through an historic haulage tunnel, driven in 1914 to transport ore from the original mill buildings to the shore. Historic mining and lighting equipment is demonstrated to the visitor.
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