Greg NesteroffSep 19 minWhat West Kootenay owes to MontanaTrail and Butte share certain nomenclature. The same guy built both of their smelters. And they have other ties too.
Greg NesteroffJan 16, 20204 minKiwanis border monumentsThe Paterson and Nelway border crossings both have peace monuments erected by Kiwanis clubs on both sides of the border amid much...
Greg NesteroffDec 1, 20187 minCanadian-born mayors of NorthportIt may be in Washington state, but I regard Northport as an honourary West Kootenay town, given that its existence from 1898 to 1921 was...
Greg NesteroffMay 22, 20185 minPlaymates on the borderThe remarkable postcard seen below shows two friends, Anna Norris of Boundary, Wash., and Velma Shields, of Waneta, who didn’t let a...
Greg NesteroffJan 15, 20183 minThe 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...
Greg NesteroffJan 2, 20183 minSpokane’s Slocan saloonIn the early 1890s, three American cities boasted saloons called the Slocan. They don’t appear to have been connected and their...