The lost Rossland ski medal
In the 1960s, a medal from the 1900 Rossland Winter Carnival was found north of Oslo. Also: how did Ferguson get designated a heritage site?
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jul 25, 2022
- 4 min
A mystery monogram and an ancient arboreal autograph
In 1891, a man blazed his name onto a cedar tree. In 1899, someone scratched their initials on a rock face. Both remain to make us wonder.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 31, 2021
- 7 min
Nelson’s floating pavilions
Nelson once had a floating dance pavilion and a large clubhouse for the boat club, both at the foot of Josephine Street.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jun 30, 2020
- 4 min
The Abbott mine graves
It was the end of the work day at the Abbott mine on Jan. 8, 1896. The property was at the head of Healy Creek, near Trout Lake, on the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 7, 2019
- 7 min
Wandering printing presses of West Kootenay
During West Kootenay’s mining boom of the 1890s, newspapers popped up like Starbucks franchises. But lugging a printing press into a...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 24, 2018
- 6 min
5 phantom cemeteries
Of the 100 or so cemeteries in West Kootenay/Boundary, two dozen can no longer be visited because they were either flooded out, exhumed,...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jun 26, 2018
- 4 min
Consolidated Mining and Smelting meets Krag the Kootenay Ram
There are two curious things about the stock certificate seen below, issued by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of British...
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Greg Nesteroff
- May 9, 2018
- 1 min
How could you, Mrs. Jowett?
The story of pioneer Trout Lake hotelier and prospector Alice Jowett is well told in books such as Circle of Silver as well as on the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 19, 2018
- 2 min
Kootenay poles for Yankee stadium?
At a presentation on the history of Slocan Valley sawmills in November 2016, a forester suggested the poles for the original light stands...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 15, 2018
- 13 min
The Adventures of Sundown Slim
Based on a presentation to the Lardeau Valley Historical Society. Sundown Slim was the champion liar of the Lardeau. The king of...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 25, 2018
- 8 min
Mattie Gunterman and the Williams sisters
The photo below is probably the second most-reproduced image ever taken in West Kootenay (next to R.H. Trueman’s vertigo-inducing shot of...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 9, 2018
- 8 min
Now let me scold you a little: the Westfall letters
Recently I posted the transcript of a letter from a little girl in Rossland in 1898 writing to her father to tell him what she received...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 8, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 1, 2018
- 2 min
A child’s Christmas in Rossland, 1898
Three lots sold on eBay today featuring letterheads, letters, and envelopes from the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Co. and Standard...
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