Blakeburn, also known as the Blakeburn Site, is an abandoned locality and former coal mine and coal mining town located southwest of the confluence of Granite Creek and the Tulameen River,[2] across the latter from the surviving coal mining hamlet in the area, Coalmont, which was the railhead for the Blakeburn Mine Railway, connecting it to the Kettle Valley Railway.
Blakeburn | |
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  Blakeburn Location of Blakeburn in British Columbia | |
| Coordinates: 49°28′55″N 120°44′05″W / 49.48194°N 120.73472°W[1] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
Blakeburn was named c. 1923 for, and by, the President of Coalmont Collieries, William John "Blake" Wilson, with his employer in Vancouver, Patrick Burns of P. Burns & Co. meat packers and dealers, being Vice-President and the other major shareholder.[3]
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