Introduction

Why was Tumbler Ridge built?

A Big Project

Power Supply

Townsite of Tumbler Ridge

Building a New Town

A Community's Dependence on Mining

Footnotes

   ¹British Columbia, Northeast Coal and Transportation Development, The Right Time, by Helen Patterson (Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1984).

   ²"The District of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia," Trade and Commerce May 1985: 2.

   ³Canada, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Coal in British Columbia (Victoria BC: n.p., 1986) 106.

   ⁴Michael Pennock, personal interview, July 2000.

   ⁵British Columbia, Northeast Coal Development Sub-committee, Northeast British Columbia Community Impact Study, by Ross Taylor (Victoria BC: n.p., [1977?]).