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, 2018
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 7 min
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, 2018
- 5 min
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, 2018
- 6 min
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, 2018
- 6 min
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, 2018
- 13 min
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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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 23, 2018
- 6 min
A Slocan madam’s grave
There’s an oft-heard tale about the burial of a black brothel keeper in the Slocan cemetery. According to the Castlegar News of June 24,...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Postcard maker gone wild
Some of the most amazing West Kootenay postcards ever produced show the Rossland mines underground in the 1900s. I don’t know how the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 19, 2018
- 2 min
Nelson from the air, 1961
Below is an ad that appeared in Trade and Commerce magazine in March 1962. It’s a fascinating aerial photo of Nelson from an unusual...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 18, 2018
- 1 min
Rossland/Greenwood syphon nets $1,700
A clear syphon from the Lion Bottling Works of Rossland and Greenwood (pictured below) sold on eBay this afternoon for $1,382 US, which...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 17, 2018
- 4 min
Triplets of West Kootenay
The clipping below from the Rossland Miner of Oct. 11, 1938 is about the Knudsgaard brothers, Einer, Erik, and Frankie. They were not the...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 14, 2018
- 9 min
Nelson’s last brothel
Only one building from Nelson’s red light district survives: 601 Lake Street (pictured below in the fall of 2017), now home to Full...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 11, 2018
- 3 min
Emilio Picariello in Trail
Western Canada’s most infamous bootlegger was once in the ice cream business in Trail. Emilio Picariello immigrated from Capriglia...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 11, 2018
- 2 min
The grand old lady of the Nelson Daily News
When the Nelson Daily News celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 1952, they printed a special supplement that included mugshots of all...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 11, 2018
- 5 min
Trail’s smelter stairs
Below are four postcard images from my collection of Trail’s Jacob’s Ladder, also known as the Golden Stairway, the Golden Stairs, or...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 7, 2018
- 1 min
Canada’s Sherlock Holmes got his start in Trail
I just finished reading Eve Lazarus’ book Blood, Sweat, and Fear, about John F.C.B. Vance (1884-1964), a Vancouver forensic scientist who...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 5, 2018
- 3 min
Art Waldie (1923-2017)
The man who carved the signs seen below (or at least their original iteration) has died at 94. According to his obituary, Art Waldie was...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 4, 2018
- 4 min
The Mystery Photographer
Many pioneer photographers signed their work — a smart marketing move. Many others did not, leaving us guessing who might have been...
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