The Ottawa Silver Mining and Milling mill
Concrete ruins adjacent to the Springer Creek campground in Slocan are from an unusual intersection of mining and Japanese-Canadian history.
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Greg Nesteroff
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Tales old envelopes tell
Several envelopes that sold at auction have intriguing connections to West Kootenay Japanese-Canadian, Chinese Canadian, and mining history.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 10, 2021
- 4 min
Sandon in watercolour, 1944
The story behind a charming painting created more than 75 years ago. At least two people who were there that day are still around.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Sep 21, 2020
- 6 min
Hidden signs of Sandon’s internment years
Names scratched on bricks outside the Sandon museum are some of the few reminders of the town's days as a Japanese-Canadian internment camp.
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Greg Nesteroff
- May 31, 2019
- 5 min
Kinji Nagatani: Life of a toseinin
When Kinji Nagatani died at Willowhaven Hospital on Kootenay Lake’s North Shore in 1970, with him went the amazing story of a roving...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 28, 2019
- 6 min
A Japanese-Canadian soldier’s grave
The most unusual military grave in the Nelson cemetery is the one seen below, which belongs to Usaku Shibuta, who died at the Balfour...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Sep 8, 2018
- 3 min
Written in concrete
A little to the northeast of the Sandon cemetery — which is on a hillside about 1.4 km northwest of the ghost town — lies a concrete slab...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 14, 2018
- 5 min
Mystery and murder surround Kaslo madams
A few years ago, I wrote about Koto Kennedy, the only Japanese Canadian living in Kaslo immediately before the start of the internment in...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 26, 2018
- 6 min
Slocan’s red light district
In the early 20th century, Slocan City’s brothels were on the west side of Block 36, at the south end of Main Street between Giffin and...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 3, 2018
- 2 min
Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: George Motosawa
George Motosawa was a restaurateur and laundry owner in two West Kootenay ghost towns. We know he was born April 6, 1867 and immigrated...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 2, 2018
- 3 min
Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Yodo Fujii
Long before Japanese Canadians were interned in the West Kootenay during the Second World War, a small number already lived here. They...
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