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Wandering manhole covers of West Kootenay
Is Trail missing a manhole cover? If so, public works might want to call their counterparts in Nelson, because there’s one in Railtown...

Greg Nesteroff
Apr 23, 20181 min read


Buildings that weren’t: Trail hotel, Rossland apartments, 1927
These Art Deco masterpieces, held by the City of Vancouver Archives, were drawn by the firm of Townley and Matheson, who designed...

Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20183 min read


Lost buildings: Last call at Trail’s Union Hotel
The City of Trail bought the Union Hotel (pictured below) and a neighbouring building last year with plans to tear them down and sell the...

Greg Nesteroff
Mar 11, 20181 min read


Emilio Picariello in Trail
Western Canada’s most infamous bootlegger was once in the ice cream business in Trail. Emilio Picariello immigrated from Capriglia...

Greg Nesteroff
Jan 10, 20183 min read


Trail’s smelter stairs
Below are four postcard images from my collection of Trail’s Jacob’s Ladder, also known as the Golden Stairway, the Golden Stairs, or...

Greg Nesteroff
Jan 10, 20185 min read


Canada’s Sherlock Holmes got his start in Trail
I just finished reading Eve Lazarus’ book Blood, Sweat, and Fear, about John F.C.B. Vance (1884-1964), a Vancouver forensic scientist who...

Greg Nesteroff
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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