Anyox, British Columbia One Place Study
Date:
1910
to
1935
Location: Anyox, Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies British_Columbia
Location: Anyox, Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies British_Columbia
Profile managers:
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Anyox, British Columbia One Place Study
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Name
Anyox, British Columbia, Canada
Geography
- Continent: North America
- Country: Canada
- Province: British Columbia
- District: Kitimat-Stikine
- GPS Coordinates: 55.417, -129.833
- Elevation: 104.0 m or 341.2 feet
History
Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada, located on the shores of Granby Bay. The town was the birthplace of 351 people. Now it is a ghost town, abandoned and mostly destroyed.
Notable events
- October 17 - November 2, 1918: the Spanish Flu Pandemic resulted in over 45 deaths in Anyox.
- 1923: Fire nearly destroys the town but the townsite was rebuilt and mining operations continued.
- 10 Nov 1930: The Bonanza Mine disaster that killed 6 workers in the bunkhouse where they slept. The six killed were:
- Paul Anderson, age (about) 25
- James Grant, age (about) 46
- Clarance Percival Johnston, age (about) 47
- Charles Mitchell, age (about) 51
- Leroy "Lee" O'Conner, age (about) 45
- Alfred Palm, age (about) 51
- Source: Disaster at Bonanza Mine Takes a Toll Of Six Lives, and Several Others Injured: The Alice Arm and Anyox Herald, 1930-11-15. Publisher: Alice Arm : E. Moss. (doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0352558 : accessed 10 Jul 2022)
Population
- By 1914, Anyox had grown to a population of almost 3,000 residents.
Notables
- Former Vancouver mayor Jack Volrich
- Thomas Waterland, MLA for Yale-Lillooet from 1975 to 1986.
- Reid Mitchell, represented Canada in basketball at the 1948 Olympics
Photographs
One Study Goals
- Add personal profiles of people who lived in Anyox, in particular:
- remaining profiles of those killed in the Bonanza Mine disaster
- profiles of those listed in the Anyox Cemetery PDF:
- profiles of those killed in the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
- profiles of those killed in the 1923 fire
- profiles of Anyox people who were buried in the Anyox Cemetery
- profiles of Anyox veterans, starting with WWI
- profiles of notables from Anyox.
- Find a copy of the "Report RE Strike of Employees of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting, and Power Company Limited at Anyox, B.C."
Resources
- The History and Geology of the Anyox Copper Camp, British Columbia Great Mining Camps of Canada 2. Ross Sherlock
- BC Archives Genealogy - General Search
- The Alice Arm and Anyox Herald UBC BC Historical Newspapers
- More resources here: British Columbia Team, Resources
Categories
Notes
- Submitted on 12 Jul 2022 to: oneplacestudy.org for inclusion in the One Place Study Directory.
Sources
- Anyox Cemetery PDF (anyox.com : accessed 12 Jul 2022).
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Peggy Watkins
Peggy Watkins
de Williams
I've been asked if many families who were displaced by the shut down of mining in Anyox ended up in Victoria British Columbia. Does anyone know where the inhabitants of Anyox went?
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Peggy Watkins
I do not know. I have not read anything on this. They probably went to other mining towns.
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by Peggy Watkins
de Williams
Two of my great uncle’s s children emigrated from Wales to Anyox. Ceinwen Arcott was s accompanied by her husband James and her two daughters. There are over 40 references to the Arscotts in the Anyox and Alice Arm Herald. James was a talented amateur boxer, Ceinwen appeared as Doreen in the 1931 operatic society performance of Penitent pirates. In 1930 Ceinwen’s brother William Frederick Williams joined them in Anyox. He played for the Celts football team. In 1935 he left Anyox with Stanley Thomas, who ran the local jitney Company to take over the running of the Astoria Hotel at 147 West Hastings Street Vancouver
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by de Williams
Peggy Watkins
Wow, fantastic info! I bet they knew my grandfather, E. Ross Oatman. Thanks for sharing!
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