Towns and Industry
Another factor in the riding was the dominance of working men in its handful of industrial towns (principally mining).
The main towns in the riding were:
- Atlin
- Teslin
- Dease Lake
- Telegraph Creek
- Anyox (now a ghost town, formerly a large smelter town)
- Stewart
Read more about this topic: Atlin (electoral District)
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