[3] The facilities provide a winter base for the nearby multi-peak ski hills of the Red Mountain Resort.

As to the word meanings, suggestions have included an "important temporary camp" or "up in the hills" for the former, and "smooth top" for the latter, referring to Red Mountain.

Leaving government service, Topping joined a Spokane syndicate that purchased 53 per cent of the property from him for $16,000 that November.

Following boat transport to Little Dalles, Washington, the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway (SF&N), and connecting lines, railed the product to the Colorado Smelting and Mining Company Works at Butte, Montana.

Late the next year, a ferry across the river from the SF&N station at Northport, Washington connected with Oliver Durant's new wagon road from Red Mountain.

That year, Bourjouis and Morris sold their Center Star and War Eagle mines, which with the Le Roi, produced 96 per cent of the mountain's 1,500,000 tons of ore to 1903.

[8] In June 1896, the first loaded ore train ran along the initial section of Heinze's Columbia and Western Railway (C&W) from Red Mountain to the Trail smelter arbitration (1938–1942).

[11] Since miners did not own the land upon which their tents or shacks stood, many acquired freehold lots in town for permanent residences.

In February 1895, the first edition of the Rossland Record listed a blacksmith, a tinsmith, a cobbler, a customs agent, a baker, a land surveyor, a lawyer, two sawyers, two barbers, three doctors, four bartenders, four hoteliers, and a justice of the peace.

The fire of August 1902 consumed both sides of upper Spokane Street, leaving only the old International Hotel standing.

Collapsing copper prices, making mine operations unviable, compelled workers to trade job security for wage rollbacks in 1907.

In 1911, CM&S bought Le Roi mine, gaining a virtual monopoly over mountain ore.[15] Under new owners, the Northport smelter worked part-time during World War I, permanently closing in 1921.

[28] Seven Summits Centre for Learning opened in Fall 2013, a high school option for education grades 8–12 in Rossland which is not-for-profit.

Seven Summits Centre for Learning blends online and traditional teaching styles to make an individualized high school alternative.

Students are also required to complete volunteer hours and are given the option to partake in additional courses beyond their core structure if they wish to.

Beyond this, students are also expected to pursue fitness, and personal growth within the surrounding area, and are encouraged to go on all field trips offered.

Seven Summits Centre for Learning blends this with supervised access to a full range of courses delivered in virtual online classrooms provided by Navigate Nides.