The Quartz Creek Miner
The Quartz Creek Miner is a 16 page newspaper put together to celebrate Ymir's 101 Reunion (August 1, 1998). There are a number of download options:
- Very Large format 284 Megabytes) 16 page pdf document for people who want to print the document out
- Smaller format 17.4 Megabytes) 16 page pdf document for reading on screen
- For those of you on dial-up, you can download one page at a time (each page is about 1 Megabyte):
- Page 1 - 1860 First Mention of Quartz Creek, Judge McColl Issues Restraining Order Against Locators, Deposits at Quartz Creek
- Page 2 - The Great Fire of 1904, News Notes, Ads
- Page 3 - The Great Fire Continued, Ymir School Teachers 1897-1971
- Page 4 - A Brief History of Mining in Ymir by George Murray
- Page 5 - Will Dorey Recalls Ymir and Area From 1926, Darkwoods in the Forestry Business in Area Since 1967, Ads
- Page 6 - Mining History of Ymir...
- Page 7 - Ymir Yankee Girl Mines Staked in 1899
- Page 8 - Highway to Ymir, Salesman Shot, Ads
- Page 9 - Kootenay Mining Standard, An Illustrated Journal 1899, Ads
- Page 10 - World Famous Ymir Mine Pictures, World Class Competitors
- Page 11 - Excerpts from the Quartz Creek Miner 1897, McLeod Family Pioneer Merchant, Ymir Mines Tonnage and Mineral Values, E.M. Peters (Granny Peters)
- Page 12 - Pictures of Our Past, List of Persons in the Ymir Cemetery, Ymir Post Masters 1897-1991, From the Reunion Committee
- Page 13 - Ymir's Victoria Day Celebration 1904, May Day Faces from the Past
- Page 14 - Ymir Faces from the Past
- Page 15 - Ymir Faces & Places from the Past
- Page 16 - Ymir Faces from the Past