Across the border

3 lost Northport buildings

Three little-known Northport buildings that have disappeared since 2007 each had intriguing stories.

Guilty or innocent: The fate of Charles Bodman

Was a respected chief engineer on an Arrow Lakes sternwheeler also an opium smuggler?

Evel Knievel’s Kootenay connection

Before Evel Knievel was a motorcycle stuntman, he was Bob Knievel, hockey player.

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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