Phoenix Cenotaph

Memorial to Phoenix miners killed in WW 1. Phoenix is an abandoned mining community that once housed 4,000 residents.Before it closed its doors, the town council sold the skating rink building for $1200, bought a granite cenotaph as a memorial to the townsmen who had died in WW I, and paid the Royal Canadian Legion branch in nearby Grand Forks $400 to look after the monument. Eventually Phoenix became a ghost town, and by the early 1950s only the cenotaph and a small cemetery remain at the original site.

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Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project