Fake news, 1890: The $10,000 wedding proposal
A Kootenay teacher was once offered a small fortune by a bride-to-be in Minnesota, sight unseen. Who was he and what happened?
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Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 29, 2019
- 5 min
The former home of the Nelson Daily News
Before the Nelson Daily News moved to 266 Baker St., it was in the building now home to Jackson’s Hole.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 29, 2019
- 5 min
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Economist office
On the heels of discovering that the last office of the Nelson Tribune (and probably the Nelson Ledge and Lowery’s Claim) is still...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Nov 29, 2019
- 6 min
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Johnstone Block
A recent post looked at the last home of the Nelson Tribune, which, much to my surprise, is still standing on Baker Street. Tracking the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Nov 14, 2019
- 11 min
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Tribune’s last home
Here’s a story left out of Kootenay News — my exhibit at Touchstones Nelson on the history of Nelson’s newspapers — for lack of space....
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 7, 2019
- 8 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
- Feb 17, 2019
- 6 min
The Nelson Independent
A copy of a short-lived and long-lost Nelson newspaper has surfaced: it’s the Sept. 20, 1913 edition of The Independent, whose existence...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 16, 2018
- 8 min
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Ralphia Weir Stitt McLean Borrow
I’m not sure who the first woman to work for a West Kootenay/Boundary newspaper was, but it may have been Harriet Haire Smith, a daughter...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jun 26, 2018
- 2 min
Robert T. Lowery’s last newspaper folds
The first newspaper Robert Thornton Lowery was involved in — and the last still in business — is folding after 139 years. This cartoon,...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 18, 2018
- 1 min
Sandon Paystreak envelope sells for $241
A neat item sold this afternoon on eBay for $192 US (which is $241 Cdn): an envelope from the Sandon Paystreak newspaper. It was...
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