Coalmont, British Columbia
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Coalmont is a tiny mining town, 12 miles west of Princeton, British Columbia, Canada, near Otter Lake and the Coldwater Junction of the Coquihalla Highway. Established in 1912, to serve as a supply point to the neighbouring coal mine at Blakeburn. Coalmont had its ups and downs over the years, largely due to the mining operation which shut in 1940. Coalmont was also a junction on the Kettle Valley Railway, whose roadbed is now the Trans-Canada Trail.
Recently, coal mining started up again, after years of Coalmont being a lumbering and summer cabin area.
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