Grand Forks

Grand Forks, population 4,054, is a city in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. It is located at the place where the Granby River merges with the Kettle River, a tributary of the Columbia. The city is just north of the US-Canada border, approximately 500 km from Vancouver and 200 km from Spokane by road.

Many residents are descendants of the Doukhobors, a group of pacifist Russian immigrants that settled in the area at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Major industries in Grand Forks are logging and agriculture. The town is the site of the former Phoenix copper mine, which closed in 1935 and left several mining slag piles just outside of town.