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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 7, 20203 min read
Maggie Bond, gravedigger
In the 1930s, a Kaslo resident claimed to be the first — and for a time, only — woman in Canada digging graves.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 30, 20204 min read
The Abbott mine graves
It was the end of the work day at the Abbott mine on Jan. 8, 1896. The property was at the head of Healy Creek, near Trout Lake, on the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 14, 20197 min read
Murder at Salmo, 1893
Salmo first came to prominence as the result of a bar room murder in 1893. The town — then little more than a cluster of shacks — was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 28, 20198 min read
A Japanese-Canadian soldier’s grave
The most unusual military grave in the Nelson cemetery is the one seen below, which belongs to Usaku Shibuta, who died at the Balfour...
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