On the edge of the Sea to Sky Highway between West Vancouver and Squamish, B.C., a landmark building is stacked into the mountainside overlooking Howe Sound. It holds a century of mining history.
Inside the steel and concrete walls of Mill No. 3, hundreds of steep wooden stairs ascend to different levels. On one floor sits the flotation equipment used to help separate valuable minerals from waste material. On a floor above, the drum-shaped machines that once loudly ground copper-containing ore now sit quietly as a reminder of the past.
“Those days, the mill was rockin’ and rollin’,” said Marshall Tichauer, 78, a former miner who is now a tour guide at the Britannia Mine Museum.
This month, Mill
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