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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 28, 20186 min read
The Mirror Lake post office
Was the Mirror Lake post office once listed by Guinness as the world’s smallest? I first encountered this claim on p. 199 of Kaslo: The...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 23, 20186 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Amy Carey
In Silverton’s early days, Amy Carey was among the community’s leading entrepreneurs. She owned hotels, a grocery store, livery stable,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 22, 20188 min read
The secret life of Eli Carpenter
West Kootenay prospector Eli Carpenter (?-1917) was chiefly famous for two things: co-locating the Payne mine, which started the Silvery...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 19, 20189 min read
3 little-known Nelson heritage buildings
Nelson boasts about 350 heritage buildings — commercial, residential, and institutional — based on those listed in 1981 in Nelson: A...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 18, 20181 min read
Sandon Paystreak envelope sells for $241
A neat item sold this afternoon on eBay for $192 US (which is $241 Cdn): an envelope from the Sandon Paystreak newspaper. It was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 14, 20183 min read
Ainsworth’s visit to Ainsworth
Several places in West Kootenay were named after people who never actually visited their eponymous locales. Lt.-Gov. Hugh Nelson was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 14, 20185 min read
Mystery and murder surround Kaslo madams
A few years ago, I wrote about Koto Kennedy, the only Japanese Canadian living in Kaslo immediately before the start of the internment in...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 13, 20185 min read
Hills Community Hall
This little building in Hills, on the east side of Highway 6, began life in October 1934 as the Hunter Siding school. An earlier Hunter...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 10, 201813 min read
6 Kootenay sites connected to Hockey’s Royal Family
From 1907 to 1911, members of the Patrick family lived in Nelson while operating a lumber company that owned timber limits in the Slocan...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 8, 20182 min read
Miracle in Rossland
Here’s a gallery of photos I took on March 3, 2003 during filming in Rossland of the Kurt Russell movie Miracle. Columbia Avenue was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 4, 20186 min read
Letters from the Salmo River, 1893
In 1893, a prospector named Baxter wrote two letters to the Northwest Mining Review of Spokane from the Salmo River (then called the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 4, 20189 min read
Death on the Dewdney Trail
In 1989, Donna Bishop and Joan Field produced a report for the Salmo Arts and Museum Society entitled Dewdney Trail 1865. They wrote the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 1, 20185 min read
7 men who were mayor of Sandon (and 3 who weren’t)
During its 22 years as a bona fide city, Sandon had seven mayors — and four receivers. Sandon city hall was built in 1900 following a...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 1, 20182 min read
3 ways Waneta didn’t get its name
I’ve long written a weekly series for the local Black Press newspapers about West Kootenay/Boundary place names. In my installment on...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 31, 20181 min read
Nelson’s Big Silver Bridge
I just wrote a blog post for Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism about Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge, which was originally silver, as seen in the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 30, 20187 min read
Chinese Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Jim and Annie Kee
The Kootenay Lake Historical Society has just reprinted the 1980 book Pioneer Families of Kaslo in a revised and expanded form. My...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 28, 20185 min read
Last of the LA Ramblers
The last surviving members of what was probably the strangest hockey team ever to play in the Kootenay have died. Terry Cavanagh...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 26, 20186 min read
Slocan’s red light district
In the early 20th century, Slocan City’s brothels were on the west side of Block 36, at the south end of Main Street between Giffin and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 26, 20186 min read
Antlered monarchs and flim-flam artists: letters from Nelson, 1905-06
Last year I bought three letters on eBay mailed in 1905-06 by Alexander Howard McIntyre from Nelson to his family in Middleville, Lanark...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 26, 201813 min read
The Aylwin City story
In the summer of 2017, Dian Aylwin made a remarkable discovery in her father’s garage in New Denver: tacked to the wall was the townsite...
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