Beaver Mines
Hamlet
82 G
Approximately 90 km south-west of Lethbridge.
The post office was opened here in 1912. The Beaver Coal Mines started operation in 1905,
and it is from these mines that the town got its name. In 1909, the Western Coal and Coke Company took an active interest in the development of local coal deposits and sent a crew of twenty-five men to survey and develop it. The site grew, as many coal towns did at the time, but eventually met the fate of dozens like it after the 1930s. The last mine closed in 1971, but Beaver Mines was considered a ghost town long before that. From Fryer, Harold. Ghost Towns of Alberta, 1976.