Revelstoke

Pickles the driving dog and other oddities

A few curious things: a dog behind the wheel, a basketball team named the Comincos, and Yale University helps tear down buildings in Trail.

Letters from the End of Track

Five envelopes mailed in 1885 by a CPR camp cook working near present-day Revelstoke have sold at auction for nearly $7,000.

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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?

Architectural clones: The Nelson and Revelstoke courthouses

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

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...

Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Yodo Fujii

Long before Japanese Canadians were interned in the West Kootenay during the Second World War, a small number already lived here. They...

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