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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 31, 20188 min read
West Kootenay/Boundary in the New York Times
The New York Times bills itself as the newspaper of record in the United States but has an international reputation. It’s one of the few...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 25, 20189 min read
West Kootenay in the Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary, that great repository of words that bills itself as “the definitive record of the English language,” is...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 20, 20184 min read
The mysterious Metro Grishen
A rare picture has turned up of a man suspected of involvement in the 1924 train explosion that killed Peter (Lordly) Verigin.
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 18, 20182 min read
First Nations postcards
While quite a few postcards show First Nations scenes in East Kootenay, not many exist from West Kootenay. At least, there are only a few...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Tipis on the Nelson waterfront
Recently Doug Jones bought a batch of early Nelson photos from someone in England. There were lots of terrific shots, but what left Doug...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 18, 20182 min read
The Gulch after the storm, 1932
I picked up a couple of interesting postcards by Hughes Studio recently, showing the mess on Rossland Avenue in Trail following a huge...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 17, 20183 min read
Lakeside Bungalow Court
I had a call recently from Mitzi Hufty, who was reminiscing about the old Lakeside Motel in Nelson — presently being demolished to make...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 17, 20183 min read
Lester Patrick’s Slocan tryout
I recently came across a charming anecdote about hockey legend Lester Patrick in West Kootenay that I had never seen before — and in fact...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 17, 201821 min read
The Cornwall Cup
From 1909 until the early 1950s, the Cornwall Cup was awarded for the men’s hockey championship of the Slocan. Officially engraved as the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 16, 20182 min read
WIHL reunion, 1999
On Sept. 4 and 5, 1999, Trail hosted a reunion of Western International Hockey League players and officials. The senior league existed...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 1, 20184 min read
More Holy Grails of local history
A previous post enumerated historical finds I have made only to lose track of them or fail to document their discovery, to my everlasting...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 30, 20184 min read
The Balfour Bugle
At the bottom of this page is a rare copy of the debut issue of The Balfour Bugle, the newspaper published by and for convalescing...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 28, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Greenwood Grocery
We recently looked at faux phantom signs in Greenwood left over from filming Snow Falling on Cedars. But there are a few other real...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 28, 20187 min read
The Bluebell Grave
The dramatic story of the Bluebell murder, how Thomas Hammill (or Hamill, or Hammil) died near present-day Riondel on Kootenay Lake,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 22, 20185 min read
5 BC premiers named John with West Kootenay ties
Here’s the oddest list I’ve come up with yet. Five guys who a) were premier of BC, b) had some connection to our area, and c) were named...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 21, 20183 min read
Phantom signs: Lauriente’s
Lauriente’s was synonymous with business in the Gulch in Trail from the early 1900s until the men’s wear store by that name at 730...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 20, 20182 min read
Nelson’s Railtown before the highway interchange
Photos of Nelson’s Railtown neighborhood prior to the construction of the Highway 3A-6 interchange in the early 1970s are inexplicably...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 14, 20185 min read
Lost buildings: Trail Legion
The old Trail Legion (also known as the Memorial Hall) was built in 1924 on Victoria Avenue to honour those killed during the First World...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 12, 20181 min read
Radio air check: KBS and Sunshine Radio, July 1995
Here are a couple of radio newscasts from the same day in July 1995. The first is Erica Waters reading the 8 a.m. news on the Kootenay...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 8, 20183 min read
Written in concrete
A little to the northeast of the Sandon cemetery — which is on a hillside about 1.4 km northwest of the ghost town — lies a concrete slab...
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