Morden Colliery Historic Provincial Park

Morden Colliery Historic Provincial Park preserves the remains of an early twentieth-century coal mine and its railway corridor on southern Vancouver Island. The site grew after the Pacific Coast Coal Mining Co. extended its railway and shifted workers from the Fiddick Colliery following the 1915 disaster there. At Morden, mining was delayed by a 1913–1914 strike and flooding, but the mine developed a distinctive seven-storey concrete headframe and tipple used to hoist and load coal. Production was short-lived, ending in 1921, though the nearby settlement survived by turning toward logging and later residential use. Restoration completed after a 2019 provincial grant preserved a rare industrial structure and an important link to Vancouver Island’s coal-mining past.

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