Britannia Beach

Britannia Beach (49˚38'00" 123˚12'00" E side of Howe Sd, S of Squamish). The community of Britannia Beach was named after the Britannia Mine, which operated at this site from 1905 to 1974 and was the largest copper mine in the British Commonwealth in the 1920s. The mine, in turn, commemorates the mountains that loom above it, the Britannia Range, named after HMS Britannia, a 100-gun ship of the line, built in 1762, that participated in many important campaigns, including the battles of St...

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