Notre Dame’s ski team experiment
Sixty years ago, the Canadian Alpine Ski Association and Notre Dame University embarked on what was dubbed the “Education Plus...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 46 min
3 lost Northport buildings
Three little-known Northport buildings that have disappeared since 2007 each had intriguing stories.
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 297 min
Call the Vallican midwife
How is it that so many people were born in Vallican between 1923 and 1942? The answer is Nellie Innes.
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 1920 min
Riddle of the Retallack schoolhouse
Was a cabin at Retallack once a school? Or a hideout for armed robbers?
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 212 min
Crown Point Hotel envelope nets $625
A rare Christmas seal inflated the price of an envelope from a Trail hotel.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 78 min
What’s Trout Lake’s second-oldest building?
There is no doubt what Trout Lake’s oldest building is. But what about the runner-up?
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 52 min
A Trout Lake fish story
How a set of lost keys were found inside a fish and returned to their owner.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 306 min
Then & Now: Ainsworth community hall
A rare photo shows us one of the West Kootenay’s oldest buildings when it was brand new.
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Michael A. Cone
Jun 2211 min
Guilty or innocent: The fate of Charles Bodman
Was a respected chief engineer on an Arrow Lakes sternwheeler also an opium smuggler?
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Greg Nesteroff
May 294 min
Gerrard’s 1909 football team
I bought this photo of the 1909 Gerrard football (soccer) team on eBay last month for a song. (One song = $8 US.) The seller was in...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 223 min
Then & Now: The Kootenay Hotel and the Gulch billboard
Can a billboard be considered a heritage site? There’s been one at the same location in Trail for over 80 years.
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Greg Nesteroff
May 133 min
Crawford Bay Canning and Preserving
The story of a rare jam tin from an obscure company that operated on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake in 1909.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 153 min
New Denver envelope fetches $1,046
An envelope that sold on eBay for an eye-popping price has a connection to a man convicted of bank robbery and embezzlement.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 49 min
Lost Arrow Lakes lighthouses
Lighthouses on the Arrow Lakes? Yes, they existed! But nothing has been written about them until now. This post illuminates the subject.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 28 min
Chinese-Canadian, Black, and Indigenous players of the WKHL and WIHL
Larry Kwong was the first Chinese Canadian to play senior hockey in the Kootenays. But he was not the only one.
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Jonathan Kalmakoff and Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1817 min
The carriages of Peter (Lordly) Verigin
Peter V. Verigin often travelled between Doukhobor settlements on horse-drawn carriages, carts, and sleighs. But whatever became of them?
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 104 min
Greenwood and Phoenix, August 1958
Rare slides reveal some interesting views of the Boundary on a summer’s day. With a digression about the Grand Forks-Bossburg stage lines.
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Frances Welwood
Mar 88 min
The Nelson-Fredericton connection
Intriguing links exist between Nelson and New Brunswick, involving some of its most prominent early settlers.
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Michael A. Cone
Mar 510 min
The legendary Jack Lloyd: Effective, controversial, and enduring
The West Kootenay connection to a famous but divisive fishing lure.
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 44 min
Castlegar and Robson by train, plane, auto, and ferry
Three images sold online tell the story of transportation in the area.
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