Call the Vallican midwife
How is it that so many people were born in Vallican between 1923 and 1942? The answer is Nellie Innes.
top of page
Search
Greg Nesteroff
- Aug 19
- 20 min
Riddle of the Retallack schoolhouse
Was a cabin at Retallack once a school? Or a hideout for armed robbers?
571 views3 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 15
- 3 min
New Denver envelope fetches $1,046
An envelope that sold on eBay for an eye-popping price has a connection to a man convicted of bank robbery and embezzlement.
376 views2 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Jun 4, 2023
- 12 min
The Newmarket Hotel guest register
I had the privilege of reading the guest book of a famous New Denver hotel from 1897 to 1899 that was rescued from a landfill.
648 views3 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Aug 2, 2022
- 7 min
The night the Newmarket Hotel burned
When fire destroyed the Newmarket Hotel in October 1973, New Denver lost its greatest heritage building, constructed 80 years earlier.
1,142 views0 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 6, 2022
- 6 min
Leonard Cheshire’s vet colony
Britain’s most celebrated bomber pilot planned to start a veterans commune at New Denver in 1947.
529 views2 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Jul 13, 2021
- 19 min
The Ottawa Silver Mining and Milling mill
Concrete ruins adjacent to the Springer Creek campground in Slocan are from an unusual intersection of mining and Japanese-Canadian history.
1,446 views2 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Sep 21, 2020
- 6 min
Hidden signs of Sandon’s internment years
Names scratched on bricks outside the Sandon museum are some of the few reminders of the town's days as a Japanese-Canadian internment camp.
1,646 views0 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 6, 2020
- 7 min
Patricks on postcards
The remarkable postcard seen below sold in 2020 on eBay for $168 Cdn. It’s a previously unknown image of the Patrick Lumber Camp No. 1...
746 views3 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 28, 2019
- 3 min
Edward Connolly and the lost bullion of Slocan Lake
One day I’d like to write a book or booklet about the lost bullion of Slocan Lake, one of our region’s most enduring treasure stories. On...
3,787 views2 comments
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...
379 views0 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 4, 2019
- 10 min
Sandon’s fire hydrants
Sandon is an interesting place for many reasons. One remarkable but perhaps under-appreciated aspect is that it is (or ought to be) a...
1,331 views2 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 1, 2019
- 6 min
His lot in life: The hard luck of Lot Willey
Lot Willey had a lot of bad luck. And bad timing. He was a sort of anti-Forrest Gump, with an uncanny knack for arriving in a town just...
931 views3 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 1, 2019
- 4 min
Empress of Ireland’s lost footage found
In 2019, I wrote here about some long-lost footage showing survivors of the Empress of Ireland disaster of May 29, 1914 that claimed more...
2,410 views5 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 22, 2019
- 12 min
New Denver’s cemetery story
Despite being such an historic and picturesque site, little has been written about the history of New Denver’s cemetery — until now. This...
1,355 views5 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 24, 2018
- 6 min
5 phantom cemeteries
Of the 100 or so cemeteries in West Kootenay/Boundary, two dozen can no longer be visited because they were either flooded out, exhumed,...
1,287 views2 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 23, 2018
- 3 min
Silverton’s oldest piece of mail?
A terrific cover from Silverton, postmarked July 28, 1894, sold for $192.50 Cdn yesterday on eBay. It was sent from Hunter & McKinnon,...
342 views0 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 22, 2018
- 8 min
A Russian revolutionary in the Slocan Valley
Twice this year I’ve learned secret details about someone that made me re-evaluate everything I thought I knew about them. The first case...
1,354 views0 comments
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 20, 2018
- 2 min
Lawrence Twoaxe in the Slocan Valley
Curious thing: this ad appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on March 26, 1911 and subsequent issues. Koch Siding is a nearly-obsolete...
468 views1 comment
Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 7, 2018
- 10 min
A phony dentist in the Slocan Valley
In January 1910, a man posted a notice in Silverton that read: Mr. A.L. Pinchbeck, D.M.S. dental surgeon, has visited Silverton for two...
789 views3 comments
© 2017-24 by the Kütne Reader. Proudly created with Wix.com. The Kootenay is the territory of the Sinixt and Ktunaxa First Nations.
bottom of page