Allenby was an important copper-mining company town

Company town

A company town is a town or city in which much or all real estate, buildings , utilities, hospitals, small businesses such as grocery stores and gas stations, and other necessities or luxuries of life within its borders are owned by a single company...

 in the Similkameen Country

Similkameen Country

The Similkameen Country, also referred to as the Similkameen Valley or Similkameen District, but generally referred to simply as The Similkameen or more archaically, Similkameen, is a region roughly coinciding with the basin of the river of the same name in the Southern Interior of British Columbia...

 of the Southern Interior of British Columbia

British Columbia Interior

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, Canada

Canada

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, just south of the town of Princeton

Princeton, British Columbia

Princeton is a small town in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies just east of the Cascade Mountains, which continue south into Washington, Oregon and California. The Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers converge here...

. It was for a short time the location of the Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain, British Columbia

Copper Mountain was an important copper-mining company town in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, just south of the town of Princeton....

 post office but that name was reinstated to its original site when the neighbouring Copper Mountain mining town, affiliated with the same mine (the Copper Mountain Mine of the Canadian Copper Company), was revived.

Allenby was named for Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936), British

Great Britain

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 field marshal

Field Marshal

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 in Egypt

Egypt

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 and Palestine

Palestine

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 in World War I

World War I

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 (he was the first Viscount Allenby

Viscount Allenby

Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 October 1919 for the prominent military commander Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, with remainder, in default of male issue of his own, to his younger...

, 1919, later Lord Allenby.

See also

• Copper Mountain, British Columbia
  Copper Mountain, British Columbia
  Copper Mountain was an important copper-mining company town in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, just south of the town of Princeton....
  
  
• Similkameen Mining District
• John Fall Allison
  John Fall Allison
  John Fall Allison was a pioneer settler, Justice of the Peace, and Gold Commissioner in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.-Life and career:...