Minto City

MINTO CITY was established on the BRIDGE R east of GOLD BRIDGE in 1934 as a townsite for miners at the nearby Minto GOLD mine. At its peak the community had 800 residents. The mine closed in 1942 but a group of JAPANESE Canadians who were moved from the coast (see JAPANESE, RELOCATION OF) kept the town alive until the end of WWII. Then it dwindled to a handful of residents, the last of whom left in 1959; that year Minto and its sister communities, Wayside and Congress, were drowned by the...

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