VANCOUVER—The scenic village of Canal Flats at the base of the Canadian Rockies is undergoing a “brave experiment.”
It’s been a year since the remote town of 800 people in southeastern B.C. began transitioning from a forestry-dependent economy to tech and trades with the launch of the Columbia Lake Technology Center.
IMAGE: The innovation hub, which aims to attract technology and manufacturing businesses, is located inside the skeleton of a century-old mill ? once the town’s main employer. The buildings that housed log sorters and giant saws are now home to high-tech electrical equipment and cranes for lifting shipping containers filled with hundreds of data servers.
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