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Sunday, 28 March 2010 15:43

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Similkameen Spotlight & Princeton Museum -

 

Part 2:

 

Thirteen kilometres from Highway #3 up today’s Copper Mountain Road and a few yards from the southern summit of Wolfe Creek hill is a newly restored fenced plot enclosing three graves. A short distance from the former site of
Voight’s Camp lie Emil F. Voight and Mary A. Voight and between these two graves is the final resting place of their son Victor.
 
The Similkameen Spotlight, May 15th, 1914, reported “Victor M. Voight passed away at the hospital on May 14th, following an appendicitis operation. He was 26 years old and had only been sick a day or two. The death came as shock to all as he had a powerful physique and was a well-known athlete.” Victor Lake, a small lake between
Voight’s Camp and Copper Mountain is so called in memory of the son.
 
Meanwhile, difficulties surrounding the ore treatment had been solved, during 1914 Pardoe Wilson surveyed a railway branch line from Princeton to Copper Mountain and in 1916 a power contract was arranged with the
West Kootenay Power Company. Financing necessitated the formation of a new Company, the Canada Copper Corporation, which controlled and financed the new organization.
 
The first initiative to restore the Voights’ gravesite came two years ago from local veterinary Doctor Alan Gill, when he approached the Princeton Museum with the offer of his help. In the summer of 2009, of his own generosity, local rancher Brian Ferguson donated, and arranged the erection of, fencing to protect the grave site and subsequently Similco Mines have donated staff time to clear the immediate area of the excess deadwood and
brush that had collected over time.
 
Currently the Princeton Museum awaits a manufactured commemorative plaque, which will be erected on site in November 2009. One final footnote, just outside the fenced area is a long and heaped pile of weathered earth and rocks; it lies alongside and parallel to the left hand grave. Although not documented, it is said that buried below is Emil Voight’s former trusty steed. There is no note of the horse’s name in the records!

 

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