Black, Alfred Seymour
Birth Year:
1865
Death Year:
1942
New Westminster, BC, and died aged 77 on 15 Nov, 1942 in Vancouver, BC.
Obituary Black, Alfred Seymour obit
Accomplishments:
Alfred Black bought the cement plant in 1916.
The Black Mine was named for the property owner Alfred Seymour Black, a prominent lawyer in Princeton, BC, for many years. The mine was six miles from town by a road into Findlay coal basin. The mine was never productive though ‘promising.’
Alfred Black and Perley Russell were the backbone of the Conservative Party Association.
References:
The Story of the Similkameen (John Goodfellow)