Milton Parent’s Circle of Silver: A History of the Lardeau and Trout Lake provides an exhaustive chronicle of the hard-rock silver and lead mining rushes that swept the northern Lardeau district during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Parent traces how remote boomtown settlements—most notably Trout Lake City, Ferguson, and Camborne—were rapidly carved from dense mountain forests along the Incomappleux (Fish) River and Lardeau River drainages. The text details the complex transportation lifelines required to support isolated mining camps, documenting the packaging of ore by pack trains over precipitous mountain passes, the construction of the Arrowhead and Kootenay railway branch, and the essential steamship connection at the head of Northeast Arm at Beaton that barged ore down to southern smelters. Richly supported by mining company records, claim maps, and archival photographs, the book documents both the frenzy and inevitable decline of an iconic interior mining frontier.

Beaton (B.C.), British Columbia Lardeau Region, British Columbia Trout Lake, Camborne (B.C.), Ferguson (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Lardeau, History, Lardeau Region (B.C.) History, Silver mines and mining British Columbia Lardeau History, Trout Lake (B.C.) History

Centennial Series, Vol. 4. Awarded the BC Historical Federation's Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. Includes index and claims list.

Centennial Series, Vol. 4. Awarded the BC Historical Federation's Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. Includes index and claims list.