A history of Revelstoke and the Big Bend UBC .
Then I discuss the mining activities in the Big Bend in the 1860''s and subsequent years, and go on to portray the most important single event in Revelstoke''s history, the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880''s. In the 1890''s the activities of the railway company, lumbering and mining in the vicinity of Revelstoke led to the incorporation of the town as a city. Since ...