Nelson Coke & Gas Works

Location

600 and 614 Railway Street
Nelson, BC
V1L 1H4

Acknowledgement

This historic place is located on the traditional and unceded territory of sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Confederacy Arrow Lakes peoples and the Yaqan Nukiy Lower Kootenay Band peoples.

Opening in 1900, the stones used to build the gasworks were blasted out of Rosemont, near the old Hall Mines Smelter. In 1914, it was purchased by the City of Nelson and taken over as a public utility.

Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery 2007-052-016 Nelson City Coke and Gasworks building, Railway Street, 1970s.