THE KÜTNE READER

In 1922, J.E. Annable built a store on Baker Street that was only six feet wide. What was in it and what happened to it?

Fire alarm boxes were part of Nelson’s urban landscape from 1903-80, but they were frequently mistaken for mailboxes.

When was the Chamber of Mines building in Nelson built? And what's up with the date on the tile in the sidewalk?

You would never guess that there was once a good-size home and extensive gardens at 75 Government Road in Nelson.

Keep your head down and you might spot the handiwork of an iron foundry that went out of business 80 years ago.

Long before Photoshop, postcard publishers were using airbrushes and other tools to alter images.

The first purpose-built courthouses in Nelson and Revelstoke looked nearly identical, a matter of some architectural intrigue.

A walk down some Trail and Nelson alleys reveals surprises in brick.

Photos of the destruction caused by the Nelson fire bug of 1911-12 have improbably turned up.

The two things Tom Murphy was best known for happened within three months of each other: fighting Nelson’s deadliest fire and an epic swim.

Grohman Narrows Park has been many things, including a Doukhobor ranch and the site of a First Nations battle.

Nelson once had a floating dance pavilion and a large clubhouse for the boat club, both at the foot of Josephine Street.

A man Miles Davis called “the greatest musician in the world” briefly went to school in Nelson.

The full story of the former Doukhobor headquarters in Nelson.

Did former Montreal Wanderers goalie Art Boyce (aka Boyes) play for Nelson in 1917? Spoiler: no. It’s a case of mistaken identity.

A love story involving an Italian-Canadian miner from Nelson, his Cornish bride, and the postcard that brought them together.

The first professional hockey player born in BC was from Nelson.

One of the chief set pieces of the movie Housekeeping , filmed in the fall of 1986 in and around Nelson and Castlegar, was a huge wooden railway trestle. The movie and novel of the same name that it was based on are set in fictional Fingerbone, Idaho, which is based on Sandpoint, Idaho, where author Marilynne Robinson was born. (And which coincidentally became a sister city to Nelson in 2013.) In the first few pages of the novel, Robinson’s protagonist, Ruth, describes her gr

Some of the earliest picture postcards of Nelson (seen below) look west down the Kootenay River with the corner of a pond in the...

I’ve written before about people from the Kootenay who were aboard the SS Lusitania the night it was sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915,...