UNIQUE CEREMONY.
ARMISTICE DAY HONOURED. ABANDONED CANADIAN TOWNVANCOUVER, December 14. Perhaps the most uniqus of iArmia-i tice Day celebrations was that which* took place at the abandoned town of Phoenix, in the Selkirks, close- to theinternational boundary. When war broke out Phoenix, a very rich copper mine, had passed its peak, but many of the remaining young men shouldered the Empire's burden. At the end of the war an imoosing cenotaph was erected on a rock eminence overlooking the camn and on it were inscribed the names of those went overseas.; ■ Nowadays, the only occupant of Phoenix, is a white-haired' janitorwhose business is to look after the remaining mine buildings, pending theirdemolition. But Phoenix was.not forgotten on Armistice Day. A pilgrimage was made to the cenotaph'frbm theneighbouring town of, Grand : Forks,- \ headed by the Mayor. | About 100 people climbed the anoun-; tain side and grouped aroundt Ithe ■ cen-j otaph for two minutes of silence and/i the Last Post, in honour of the; "com-! 'munity which had mined a;; hundred? '■ million tons of ore, and in its -declining; but still cheerful days, had;'sent' its last men to fight in the Italion of British Columbia*..
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 78, 12 January 1928, Page 6
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