here<\/a>.<\/p>\nThis reminded me of my grandfather’s picture of Sandon. His picture was taken in May 1909 from about the same place as the controversial picture and shows many of the same buildings. My grandfather’s picture does not have the high quality of the professional one.<\/p>\n
My grandfather, Rev. Thurlow Fraser, had been sent to Sandon by the Presbyterian Church in Ontario. It is a measure of the smugness to be found in Ontario that he had been sent to British Columbia as a missionary to convert the heathen miners, rather than as a minister to support the faithful.<\/p>\n
As I look at his photo album now, I can identify eighteen shots taken around Silverton, New Denver and Sandon in 1909. They show buildings, people, sternwheelers, rail lines, a mud slide, and a mine. I may have to scan some more pictures.<\/p>\n
This is clearly a picture of Sandon, although my grandfather’s caption describes it as a spot “Back of Silverton”. Near the centre of the picture is the shell of a recently burned building. My higher-resolution version shows the Canadian Pacific boxcar to be number 46980 and the building between it and the burned one says: Red Cross Drug Store. The big church in the earlier picture is now missing—maybe Sandon did need missionaries.
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