THE KÜTNE READER

Rare slides reveal some interesting views of the Boundary on a summer’s day. With a digression about the Grand Forks-Bossburg stage lines.

Betty Ridge, who died in Nelson on Dec. 23, 2018 at age 98, was probably the last surviving person born in the mining town of Phoenix, BC. She was already believed to be the last person born there (on April 14, 1920) before the city disincorporated. Phoenix, ca. 1900s. (Greg Nesteroff collection) Her parents, Russell and Maggie Macdonald, married in Greenwood in 1909. Her father was a crusher boss at the mines in Phoenix, where two of her brothers were also born: Roy, who die