Call the Vallican midwife
How is it that so many people were born in Vallican between 1923 and 1942? The answer is Nellie Innes.
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Greg Nesteroff
May 12, 20212 min read
The final Fifers
I was surprised to seen an obituary for Emma Zahn. Surprised because she was born in Fife. I thought no native Fifers were left.
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1, 20216 min read
Tiny Thompson and Sandon
Sandon produced a Hall of Fame NHL goaltender. But Tiny Thompson’s relationship with his birthplace has not been explored — until now.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 5, 20193 min read
Last of the Phoenicians
Betty Ridge, who died in Nelson on Dec. 23 at age 98, was probably the last surviving person born in the mining town of Phoenix, BC. She...
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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
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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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 19, 20182 min read
Sandon centenarians
An obituary appeared in the Vancouver Sun for Norma Evelyn Schiller of Mission, who died Aug. 9, 2018 at age 100. She was born in Sandon....
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 11, 201816 min read
Chinese-Canadian and Indigenous births at Rock Creek
Between 1872 and 1923, at least 12 Chinese Canadian births occurred at Rock Creek. This was noteworthy for a few reasons. First, there...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 13, 20184 min read
A girl named Columbia
On Oct. 26, 1892, the sternwheeler Columbia was on the Arrow Lakes, en route from Little Dalles, Wash. to Revelstoke, when a passenger...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 17, 20184 min read
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
Dec 31, 20174 min read
A girl named Rossland
Below is a clipping from the Rossland Miner’s special historical edition of Oct. 11, 1938, about the first baby born in Rossland. The...
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