THE KÜTNE READER

Four bridges have crossed the Canadian side of the Pend d’Oreille River, two of which still stand. Others were proposed.

Presenting six rare or never-before-seen postcards of Waneta recently sold online and probably dating to the 1910s.

Several envelopes that sold at auction have intriguing connections to West Kootenay Japanese-Canadian, Chinese Canadian, and mining history.

An envelope mailed from London to Fort Shepherd in January 1862 sold today for $1,600 Cdn. The piece was part of the Gerald Wellburn gold...

The remarkable postcard seen below shows two friends, Anna Norris of Boundary, Wash., and Velma Shields, of Waneta, who didn’t let a...

In 1893, a prospector named Baxter wrote two letters to the Northwest Mining Review of Spokane from the Salmo River (then called the...

In 1989, Donna Bishop and Joan Field produced a report for the Salmo Arts and Museum Society entitled Dewdney Trail 1865. They wrote the...

I’ve long written a weekly series for the local Black Press newspapers about West Kootenay/Boundary place names. In my installment on...