THE KÜTNE READER

The village has nothing to do with Rossland, BC. But how did it get its name?

In the 1960s, a medal from the 1900 Rossland Winter Carnival was found north of Oslo. Also: how did Ferguson get designated a heritage site?

Martha Collins was a pioneer prospector and hotel keeper whose name was once known in every mining camp in the west.

New discoveries reveal that Doukhobors were finding their way to British Columbia several years before a mass migration began in 1908.

In 1956, local Greyhound driver Max Carne was taking his bus over the old Santa Rosa Pass between Rossland and Grand Forks — a gravel...

During West Kootenay’s mining boom of the 1890s, newspapers popped up like Starbucks franchises. But lugging a printing press into a...

I was thrilled to find a postcard for sale on eBay recently of Nelson/Rossland pioneer Wesley Ziegler. It was taken by Campbell Art...

This is the story of a local woman’s search for the place where her father died more than 60 years ago. It begins with Donald Edward...

One of West Kootenay’s best bits of folklore is the Flying Steamshovel, the story of an amateur aviation enthusiast who apparently built...

An amazing cabinet card sold on eBay last week for $181.50 US ($240 Cdn), showing two First Nations people in a studio portrait by...

Six West Kootenay/Boundary residents and one former resident were among the 1,200 passengers and crew who perished when a German U-boat...

Earlier this year I wrote about a billhead from the New Zealand Hotel that Jada Regis of the Northport Historical Society found in a...

John Gibb Devlin (1865-1925), alias the Gunner from Galway, was a well-known early Kootenay character. One funny story about him is how...

These Art Deco masterpieces, held by the City of Vancouver Archives, were drawn by the firm of Townley and Matheson, who designed...

In 1992, a classified ad appeared in The Mystery Review, a now-defunct quarterly magazine, that read as follows: Put Rossland, British...

Recently I posted the transcript of a letter from a little girl in Rossland in 1898 writing to her father to tell him what she received...

Three lots sold on eBay today featuring letterheads, letters, and envelopes from the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Co. and Standard...

Here’s a gallery of photos I took on March 3, 2003 during filming in Rossland of the Kurt Russell movie Miracle. Columbia Avenue was...

Some of the most amazing West Kootenay postcards ever produced show the Rossland mines underground in the 1900s. I don’t know how the...

A clear syphon from the Lion Bottling Works of Rossland and Greenwood (pictured below) sold on eBay this afternoon for $1,382 US, which...