Greenwood Attractions

Greenwood (750 m (2461 ft). Evidence of the wealth formerly enjoyed by this once flourishing mining town is provided by the magnificent buildings in the town center, such as Greenwood Inn (1899), Sacred Heart Catholic Church (1900), the vicarage (1906), the court buildings (1902) and the post-office built in 1915. In the 1880s ore deposits were discovered in the mountains. In the town's heyday more than 2000 people lived here. Of the smelting works set up in 1901 by the B. C. Copper Co., which once employed 400 men, only the ruins of the 37 m (121 ft) high chimney in the Lotzgar Memorial Park and the slag-heaps still remain. As early as 1918 the fall in copper prices after the end of the First World War led to the closure of this and of the two other plants in the Greenwood vicinity. Greenwood was on the way to becoming a ghost town when in 1942 some 1200 Japanese living in western Canada were interned here and some remained when the war ended.