Can anyone help with the following query from a non-member?
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Peter
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>I don't know if you can help me here, but I'm trying to trace a BRITISH
>MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY that was in Vancouver Island, Canada somewhere
>around the early 1900's.
>
>I was in Vancouver Island recently and searched through lots of museums and
>archives, but the name appears to be unrecognisable. There was a Brittania
>Mining and Smelting Company but it wasn't on Vancouver Island and there
>doesn't seem to be a connection there.
>
>I have a postcard that belonged to my great grandfather with his writing on
>the back of the card. Although he could have been mistaken, it says its the
>British Mining and Smelting Company (looks like a settlement), on Vancouver
>Island. He was from Sunderland in the North East of England, which was a big
>mining town at that time. He went over to Canada and worked there as a
>butcher. We visted Texada Island which was a big mining area at the time,
>(and we know that he lived there) but there was no history of a British
>Mining and Smelting Company there. It's opposite Vancouver Island in the
>Straits of Georgia.
>
>As we exhausted all the archives in the area in British Columbia, then I
>thought perhaps someone in the UK might have a record of any mining
>companies that were set up out there. We're looking for something around
>1910-1930??? Do you know it there are any such records?
>
>If you can help in any way, please e-mail me at
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>My name is Irene.
>
>Thanks, Irene
>
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