Sandon Ghost Town.

While we were camping at Rosebery Provincial Park, near New Denver, in British Columbia, Canada.

We have visited Sandon Ghost Town, which we have visited before.
You can see the post here.

“Considered as being one of the true classic ghost towns of west, Sandon is the focal point of B.C.’s famed Valley of the Ghosts.At one time boasting a population of 10,000, Sandon was the prime mineral (silver, lead and zinc) mining community in the valley, five miles off the main Highway 31A” – Ghost towns of Canada-Sandon

Canadian Pacific Railway’s steam train.

“The town of Sandon was born April 7, 1892 when J.M.”Johnny” Harris uncovered a fabulous vein of silver. He was born in Virginia and spent his early boyhood in the tobacco and cotton fields. Still only a boy, he left Virginia and wound up in Idaho in 1884 where he worked in the gold mines.- Read more at Ghost towns of Canada-Sandon