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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 20, 20182 min read
Lawrence Twoaxe in the Slocan Valley
Curious thing: this ad appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on March 26, 1911 and subsequent issues. Koch Siding is a nearly-obsolete...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 18, 20183 min read
The Pop Inn Annual
Robert Main was sometimes referred to as the poet laureate of the Kootenays. In the 1920s, he ran a small roadside stand at Beasley...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 16, 20188 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Ralphia Weir Stitt McLean Borrow
I’m not sure who the first woman to work for a West Kootenay/Boundary newspaper was, but it may have been Harriet Haire Smith, a daughter...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 12, 20187 min read
Births aboard planes, trains, ferries, and automobiles
Having examined births, marriages, and deaths aboard sternwheelers on local lakes, we turn our attention to West Kootenay–related births...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 7, 201810 min read
A phony dentist in the Slocan Valley
In January 1910, a man posted a notice in Silverton that read: Mr. A.L. Pinchbeck, D.M.S. dental surgeon, has visited Silverton for two...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 3, 20183 min read
Capitol Records salutes CJAT, 1958
On Sept. 29, 1958, CJAT Trail opened a new studio in the former post office at 1300 Cedar Ave. They also marked their 25th anniversary as...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 2, 20181 min read
First Nations faces in Rossland
An amazing cabinet card sold on eBay last week for $181.50 US ($240 Cdn), showing two First Nations people in a studio portrait by...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 1, 20187 min read
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
Nov 27, 20184 min read
Wonderful Town, Trail BC
In 1962-63, the American jingle house of Richard H. Ullman Associates produced a series of cheesy but oh-so-catchy songs to promote radio...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 22, 20184 min read
The hotel murals of Jack Lines
One of West Kootenay’s least known attractions is an amazing map of the Kootenays and Okanagan in the pub of the Salmo Hotel, created in...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 19, 20187 min read
Kootenaians on the Lusitania’s last voyage
Six West Kootenay/Boundary residents and one former resident were among the 1,200 passengers and crew who perished when a German U-boat...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 15, 20182 min read
Ainsworth cave revealed fossils
The Cody Caves (naturally occurring) and hot springs caves (mostly or entirely human-created) aren’t the only caves in and around...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 13, 20182 min read
Greenwood memorabilia
Three noteworthy bits of Greenwood memorabilia (Greewoodiana?) have sold on eBay in the last few months. On Aug. 4, a dry-mount photo of...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 12, 20185 min read
Verna Felton in Nelson
What does Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law have to do with West Kootenay? The woman who provided the original voice for Pearl Slaghoople...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 10, 20184 min read
A Perry’s Mining Map census
One of the most beautiful pieces of Kootenaiana ever produced was Perry’s Mining Map of 1893. It’s admired for its cartography and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 9, 201810 min read
The Slocan Park ferry and footbridge
Here’s something that seems completely lost from local memory: from at least 1922 to 1943, a ferry crossed the Slocan River at Slocan...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 8, 20182 min read
Larry Kwong (1923-2018)
You heard it here last: Larry Kwong, the NHL’s first player of Asian descent and the oldest Trail Smoke Eaters alumnus, died on March 15,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 6, 201814 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Alice Foster
The photo below comes from a glass plate negative found in Alexander T. Garland’s store in Kaslo and is believed to show the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Fritz-Steiner Brewery, 1912
The Nelson Daily News of Nov. 2, 1912 announced a new brewery would be built in Nelson’s Fairview neighbourhood between Nelson Avenue and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 5, 20188 min read
Births, marriages, and deaths aboard sternwheelers
I’ve previously written about the birth of Florence Columbia Holliday aboard the SS Columbia in 1892. She wasn’t the only person born on...
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