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The Bluebell Grave
The dramatic story of the Bluebell murder, how Thomas Hammill (or Hamill, or Hammil) died near present-day Riondel on Kootenay Lake,...

Greg Nesteroff
Sep 27, 20187 min read


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 12, 20187 min read


The crane in Garland Bay
Last September, a group including scuba diver Brian Nadwidny went looking for a Caterpillar tractor supposedly lost in Kootenay Lake at...

Greg Nesteroff
Mar 18, 20181 min read


The Mirror Lake post office
Was the Mirror Lake post office once listed by Guinness as the world’s smallest? I first encountered this claim on p. 199 of Kaslo: The...

Greg Nesteroff
Feb 27, 20186 min read
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