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Canadian Ghost Town's Last Inhabitant Dies
Phoenix BC once the highest incorporated Canadian city, faded after 1919 when copper ore exhausted. The lone survivor Bambury died in 1942, leaving the empty streets to wind and snow as the town decayed around its cemetery and abandoned machinery.
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