THE KÜTNE READER

There’s an oft-heard tale about the burial of a black brothel keeper in the Slocan cemetery. According to the Castlegar News of June 24,...

George Motosawa was a restaurateur and laundry owner in two West Kootenay ghost towns. We know he was born April 6, 1867 and immigrated...

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

In the early 1890s, three American cities boasted saloons called the Slocan. They don’t appear to have been connected and their...