Three Forks

THREE FORKS, an early SILVER mining camp in the W KOOTENAY on the wagon road from KASLO to NEW DENVER, became the terminus of the CPR's Nakusp & Slocan Rwy in 1894. (The line was extended to SANDON in 1895.) The town boomed and reached a peak population of 2,000 in the mid-1890s, but declined in importance as Sandon grew. By 1904, fewer than 100 people lived there. By the 1990s little remained of Three Forks, which was named for the nearby confluence of Kane, Carpenter and Seaton creeks. A...

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