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Louis Armstrong in Nelson and Duke Ellington in Trail
If the greatest name in jazz history performed at the Civic Arena, how many people would turn up?
Greg Nesteroff
Apr 28 min read
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Johnny Cash and the Rockabillies in Trail
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Wanda Jackson all performed in Trail as part of the same show in 1957.
Greg Nesteroff
Feb 129 min read
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Evel Knievel’s Kootenay connection
Before Evel Knievel was a motorcycle stuntman, he was Bob Knievel, hockey player.
Greg Nesteroff
Dec 18, 202311 min read
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Bobby McFerrin in Nelson
The singer-songwriter behind Don’t Worry Be Happy spent at least one month of his youth in Nelson.
Greg Nesteroff
Aug 6, 20233 min read
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The Chad Mitchell Trio in Trail
The Chad Mitchell Trio, who counted Trail native Mike Kobluk as a member, performed in Trail on Feb. 19, 1962.
Greg Nesteroff
Jun 24, 20234 min read
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Pete Seeger in Trail
Folk singer Pete Seeger said he once performed a concert in Trail. But when?
Greg Nesteroff
Dec 1, 20203 min read
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Gil Evans in Nelson
A man Miles Davis called “the greatest musician in the world” briefly went to school in Nelson.
Greg Nesteroff
Nov 25, 202015 min read
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Nellie McClung in Nelson
In 1937, prominent suffragette Nellie McClung visited Nelson. (Pictured in an undated photo from Library and Archives Canada,...
Greg Nesteroff
Apr 12, 20206 min read
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Victoria Hopper in Trail
1930s stage and film actress Victoria Hopper (1909-2007) spent part of her childhood in Trail. Although the city has done an excellent...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 6, 20202 min read
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The Man of a Thousand Faces in Nelson
It’s sort of well known that before earning stardom as Frankenstein’s monster, Boris Karloff performed on the stage in Nelson. But it has...
Greg Nesteroff
Nov 30, 20193 min read
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Clark Gable in Kuskonook?
Helena White’s 1984 booklet, Sixty Bloomin’ Years: A History of Creston, British Columbia contains this statement on page 21: “Moviegoers...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 10, 20192 min read
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Thomas Edison in Nelson
Inventor Thomas Edison (seen below in a Wikipedia photo) passed through Nelson 110 years ago. While his visit was fleeting, he told a...
Greg Nesteroff
Jul 21, 20182 min read
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Holy Grails of Kootenay history
Many’s the time I’ve come across something historically interesting in a newspaper only to: a) Fail to fully appreciate its significance...
Greg Nesteroff
Jul 13, 201810 min read
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William Randolph Hearst in West Kootenay
Did William Randolph Hearst (pictured below in a photo from Wikipedia), the larger-than-life American newspaper publisher who invented...
Greg Nesteroff
Jun 13, 20187 min read
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Bill Miner’s Nelson double
Notorious train robber Bill Miner had a lookalike in Nelson. This story appeared in the Nelson Daily News on Nov. 16, 1911 and was...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 15, 20183 min read
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Bing Crosby in the Kootenay
Did crooner Bing Crosby (pictured below in a Wikpedia photo) hang out in the West Kootenay before stardom? There are several suggestions...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 14, 20183 min read
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Jack London in the Kootenay
Did novelist Jack London once work in a tie camp at Lardeau? Jack London (Wikipedia/Little Pilgrimages, p. 235) The author is best known...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 8, 20183 min read
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Nelson’s Disney imposter
In 1950, a man registered himself in a Vancouver hotel as Walt Disney. He certainly looked like the famed cartoonist. On that basis, he...
Greg Nesteroff
Dec 30, 20172 min read
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