Voight Camp
| Feature Type: | Abandoned Locality - A previously populated place with no current population. |
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Not official
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| Relative Location: | E side of Similkameen River, S of Princeton, Similkameen Division Yale Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 49°19'29"N, 120°32'24"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92H/7 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Voights Camp Post Office was opened 16 December 1912, located 9 miles south of Princeton; name changed to Copper Mountain Post Office 1 November 1914, in association with Canada Copper Corporation's Copper Mountain Mine, in operation here from 1910. Labelled "Copper Mountain (Voight Camp)" on BC map 2B, 1914. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"A large group of claims situated on Copper Mountain and lying to the north of the Granby Company's holdings has been owned by Emil Voigt [sic] for many years..." (BC Mines Report, 1926, p.223) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |