What West Kootenay owes to Montana
Trail and Butte share certain nomenclature. The same guy built both of their smelters. And they have other ties too.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
Kiwanis border monuments
The Paterson and Nelway border crossings both have peace monuments erected by Kiwanis clubs on both sides of the border amid much...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Dec 1, 2018
- 7 min
Canadian-born mayors of Northport
It may be in Washington state, but I regard Northport as an honourary West Kootenay town, given that its existence from 1898 to 1921 was...
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Greg Nesteroff
- May 22, 2018
- 5 min
Playmates on the border
The remarkable postcard seen below shows two friends, Anna Norris of Boundary, Wash., and Velma Shields, of Waneta, who didn’t let a...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min
The New Zealand Hotel(s)
Jada Regis of the Northport Historical Society recently came across a gunnysack full of old paper from the Kendrick store and Northport...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 2, 2018
- 3 min
Spokane’s Slocan saloon
In the early 1890s, three American cities boasted saloons called the Slocan. They don’t appear to have been connected and their...
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