Is a small city, located in southwestern British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains at a eroded crater of an extinct volcano, about 10 kilometers west of Trail. Rossland sprang to life in the late-1890s, as a center of a gold mining district when gold was discovered by a prospector in 1890, who travelled to the goldfields more eastward on the Dewdney Trail, and in fact just before the First World War (WWI), it produced and mined 50% of all British Columbia’s gold and the town’s population peaked at 7,000. Mining declined during the 1920s, despite the fact that molybdenum; a material used as a alloying agent for steel fabrication and used mostly in the lubricant industry, has been mined in Rossland since the 1960s. Due to Trail being 5 minutes away; Rossland serves as a community for employees who work at Trail’s lead-zinc Cominco smelter. A number of Rossland’s heritage structures in the downtown core, date back to the early 1900s, and the town’s most famous landmarks; the LeRoi gold mine on Red Mountain is also one of the town’s major tourist attractions. Red Mountain where the gold was mined is now famous for downhill skiing, snowboarding and has lots of hiking trails. Rossland is named after Ross Thompson, a pioneer settler, who preempted a townsite here in 1893 and called it Thompson but because of confusion by the post office with another British Columbia town called Thompson Landing near the Arrow Lakes, it was renamed Rossland in 1895. Tourism and mining contribute to the local economy.
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