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 29
- 7 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 19
- 20 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 21
- 2 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 7
- 8 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 5
- 2 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 30
- 6 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 22
- 11 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 29
- 4 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 22
- 3 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 13
- 3 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 15
- 3 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 4
- 9 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 2
- 8 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 18
- 17 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 10
- 4 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 8
- 8 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 5
- 10 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 4
- 4 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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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 26
- 48 min
South Slocan heritage sites
South Slocan has taken it on the chin in the last 20 years, having lost 10 heritage buildings, although an equal number still stand.
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