Lost buildings: Silverton’s movie theatre
Silverton had its own moviehouse? Yes, indeed! Here is what I have been able to scrape together about it and the man who ran it.
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 144 min read
Slocan City Miners’ Union ribbon sells for $1,003
The Western Federation of Miners had at least 22 locals in the Kootenay-Boundary, whose ribbons are highly coveted by collectors.
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 89 min read
Lost buildings: Revisiting Trail’s Rio Theatre
Another look at East Trail’s short-lived moviehouse, its proprietor, and the disasters it faced.
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 316 min read
Rare Nelson gas works photo sells for $305
A rare photo shows a piece of Nelson industrial heritage under construction in 1900.
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 108 min read
The Coffee Creek coffeehouse
What happened to the coffeehouse and resort that existed at Coffee Creek in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 187 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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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