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IDAHO BRITISH COLUMBIA FESTIVALS AND EVENTS NEW DENVER – SILVERTON – SLOCAN
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Above: Tour the mining ghost town of Sandon. (Sandon Museum) Below: Mulvey Lakes in Valhalla Provincial Park. (Brent Malysh)
New Denver May Days Canada Day Celebration, Silverton Unity Music Festival Columbia Basin Culture Tour Garlic Festival, New Denver Slocan Valley Fall Fair Christmas by the Lake, Silverton Merchants Night, New Denver Village of Slocan (250) 355-2277 New Denver Info (250) 258-7218
Centre (Victoria Day-Labour Day Weekend) offers an hour-long tour dedicated to the memory of Japanese Canadians interned during World War II. In Silverton, British Columbia’s smallest municipality, take a stroll downtown and visit the Silverton Gallery with year-round exhibit, including the Silverton Outdoor Mining Museum & Interpretive Centre (Victoria Day-Labour Day Weekend), which holds 58 pieces of old mining equipment and a blacksmith shop. The village has a nice municipal campground and day park at the lake’s edge. Across the lake is Valhalla Provincial Park, a place for serious backcountry adventurers. Access is by water taxi, hiking trail at lake level or via rough gravel roads into the
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