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Chinese Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Mar Sam
The photo below, taken in 1950, shows the evocative Mar Sam laundry at the corner of Front, Lake, and Ward streets in Nelson. You’ll...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 3, 20184 min read
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3 little-known Nelson heritage buildings
Nelson boasts about 350 heritage buildings — commercial, residential, and institutional — based on those listed in 1981 in Nelson: A...
Greg Nesteroff
Feb 19, 20189 min read
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6 Kootenay sites connected to Hockey’s Royal Family
From 1907 to 1911, members of the Patrick family lived in Nelson while operating a lumber company that owned timber limits in the Slocan...
Greg Nesteroff
Feb 10, 201813 min read
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Nelson’s Big Silver Bridge
I just wrote a blog post for Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism about Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge, which was originally silver, as seen in the...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 31, 20181 min read
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Antlered monarchs and flim-flam artists: letters from Nelson, 1905-06
Last year I bought three letters on eBay mailed in 1905-06 by Alexander Howard McIntyre from Nelson to his family in Middleville, Lanark...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 26, 20186 min read
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Nelson from the air, 1961
Below is an ad that appeared in Trade and Commerce magazine in March 1962. It’s a fascinating aerial photo of Nelson from an unusual...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 19, 20182 min read
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Nelson’s last brothel
Only one building from Nelson’s red light district survives: 601 Lake Street (pictured below in the fall of 2017), now home to Full...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 14, 20189 min read
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The grand old lady of the Nelson Daily News
When the Nelson Daily News celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 1952, they printed a special supplement that included mugshots of all...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 11, 20182 min read
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Art Waldie (1923-2017)
The man who carved the signs seen below (or at least their original iteration) has died at 94. According to his obituary, Art Waldie was...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 5, 20183 min read
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Lois Arnesen (1928-2017)
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Nelson’s Lois Arnesen (pictured below) on New Year’s Eve. I wrote a profile of Lois in 2012 for the...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 3, 20181 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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