"A" Company suffered the heaviest casualties, incurring many fatalities from beach mines.

Detecting shallow-water and beach mines remains a challenge, since mine warfare is a deadly "poor man's weapon."

He was able to keep the company going through the later 1930s when he allowed mushroom growers to set up shop in the abandoned Beach Mine.

The "Polish" mine detector was later used together with the ERA mine-locator for detecting beach mines.

The majority of filming took place in urban areas outside of the city; locations included Stanley Park, Granville Island, B.C. Place Stadium, and the Britannia Beach mines.

Local sites often served as shooting locations, with much of "Dead in the Water" taking place at Buntzen Lake and the climax of "Wendigo" occurring in a Britannia Beach mine.

Taking them in order, the mine to the southwest is the Beach mine, owned by the New Jersey Iron Mining Company, formerly by Conrad Poppenhusen, who purchased of Dr. C. Beach.