THE KÜTNE READER

While James W. Troup was renowned for building sternwheelers in the West Kootenay, Michael Cone recounts three steam launches he owned.

A large building across from Butler Park in Trail is a little-known legacy of the city’s Jewish community.

Michael Cone writes of a forgotten picnic mecca and home of world champions across the lake from Nelson.

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

Another in a series of negatives I bought a few years ago showing Trail in 1953 or so.

Wherein I try to figure out more about a woman depicted on a postcard — and reveal some puzzling findings about a murdered brothel keeper.

The cachet associated with the ghost town of Sandon probably drove up the auction price of a trade token from the Hotel Reco.

A stone and mortar structure sits beneath Trail’s Victoria Street bridge. What the heck is it?

The first heritage building identified in Kinnaird, the community hall was built in 1944 and saved from demolition by the Carpenters Union.

Exactly when did legendary Trail Smoke Eaters goaltender start wearing a mask? And was it before or after Jacques Plante did the same thing?

A ghost story from a local mine, presented for the first time in 121 years.

Where was the Elma Hotel in Trail? And who was Elma?

A few curious things: a dog behind the wheel, a basketball team named the Comincos, and Yale University helps tear down buildings in Trail.

One day in Sheep Creek, a giant boulder came crashing down the mountainside, flattening the front end of a car and hitting a house.

When fire destroyed the Newmarket Hotel in October 1973, New Denver lost its greatest heritage building, constructed 80 years earlier.

In 1891, a man blazed his name onto a cedar tree. In 1899, someone scratched their initials on a rock face. Both remain to make us wonder.

Here’s something that’s not confusing at all: the area across the Columbia River from Trail used to be split into East Trail and Trail East.

From 1927 to 1934, Nelson’s senior men’s hockey team changed names four times. Why? Finding out is proving more challenging than I expected.

Seventy years ago this month, a group of American Quakers arrived in the Kootenays, looking for a new home.

The last remaining portion of an early Nelson hotel is still standing in the middle of downtown.