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The City of Destiny

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 by GetawayBC.com

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Coalmont is a town of nice and easy living – but it wasn’t always this way. Coalmont was once a thriving home to hundreds of coal workers.

Coalmont, once known as the “City of Destiny,” was founded in 1910 when Columbia Coal and Coke Ltd. decided they needed a town between Granite City and their sawmill in Tulameen. Coalmont was big for a while, but then things slowed down and finally stopped once the coal age ended and the company ceased local operations.

Coalmont is now most famous for the Coalmont Hotel, in existence since 1911.;

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