Princess Sodalite Mine

The mineral deposit was first found by Frank Dawson Adams in 1892.

[1] The Princess of Wales was given a gift of sodalite from the quarry in 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

[1] She liked it so much that she ordered a shipment to decorate Marlborough House, in London, England.

[5] In 1999, the owners of the quarry donated a sodalite boulder to the Earth Sciences Museum at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

[9] The quarry is the only source of sodalite in Ontario, where it was once nominated (but ultimately rejected) to be the official provincial mineral.