Sandon

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Sandon

Elevation457 m

Coordinates49.98°, -117.23°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Sandon is in the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The near ghost town lies off BC Highway 31A, and is at the confluence of Sandon Creek into Carpenter Creek. By road, the place is about 14 kilometres (9 mi) east of New Denver and 43 kilometres (27 mi) west of Kaslo.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Tiny Thompson

Canadian ice hockey goaltender: first goaltender to stop the puck by catching it (1903-1981)

R

Randolph Harding

Canadian politician (1914–1996)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Sandon

Vanishing British Columbia

Michael Kluckner · 2005

Sandon (Slocan and Ainsworth mining division), Kootenay District, British Columbia

Geology and ore deposits of the Sandon area, Slocan Mining Camp, British Columbia

M. S. Hedley · 1952

Ghost towns of the Pacific Northwest

Philip Varney · 2005

Silver, lead & hell

Veronika Pellowski · 1992

The Press favors the Crow's Nest southern charter

1997

Window in the rock

Eugene Petersen · 1993

Search results from Open Library.