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Canmore CPR coal town on the Bow

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: miners' lamps, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

CPR divisional point and coal-mining town from the 1880s, with mine tipples and cabins along the Bow; mine-era refuse on the benches.

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