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It is 1929 and you are traveling by boat up Howe Sound from the cosmopolitan city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Your destination is the small isolated mining town of Britannia Beach, approximately 50 kilometers north. With no railway or highway, access by boat is the only means to travel up the rugged BC coastline. You arrive at night. The water and shoreline are pitch black, so you have no sense of where you are on your journey until you see it – the Mill, a skyscraper 20 stories high, burning like a bright flame, carved into the side of the mountain. For many years, the Mill was the beacon of Howe Sound.

The spectacular Mill at Britannia Beach demands as much attention now as it did then. Designated a Canadian National Historic Site, it was essential both to the operations of the mighty Britannia Mine and to the people who have lived in its shadows.

Come and venture into the heart of the Mill and discover the Beauty in the Beast.