WARFIELD
Is a small village, located
between Rossland and Trail in the Kootenay Region, and also not far from the
Canada/United States border.
An early sawmill was built here
in the early 1900s, and was established and built by George Merry, an early
settler. When a fertilizer plant owned by Cominco (Consolidated Mining and Smelting
Company; now Teck Resources) was established here in 1919, it absorbed a neighboring
and nearby sawmill settlement of Annable. A majority of Warfield’s residents
work at either the fertilizer plant or at Trail’s zinc-lead smelter, which also
is owned by Teck Resources.
Warfield was incorporated on
December 8th of 1952 and is named after Carlos Warfield, a business
associate of Frederick Augustus Heinze, who built Trail’s for-mentioned smelter
in 1896. Warfield is also known as a suburb of Trail and is basically known as
“The Jewel in the Kootenays”.
Warfield’s
population: 1,729
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