Kaslo’s meat markets and other tales
Wherein we use a photo of a long-lost building in Kaslo as a jumping-off point looking at the history of Burns & Co. and Eric’s Meat Market.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 2, 20237 min read
In search of Sheriff Tuck’s lost library
For a few years, the largest library in Nelson was in the courthouse basement. Where did it go?
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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
Apr 7, 20198 min read
Wandering printing presses of West Kootenay
During West Kootenay’s mining boom of the 1890s, newspapers popped up like Starbucks franchises. But lugging a printing press into a...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 13, 20195 min read
George Borchers in Kaslo
Pictured here is what is probably the most valuable and coveted baseball card with a West Kootenay connection. In 1897, Kaslo, Rossland,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1, 20196 min read
His lot in life: The hard luck of Lot Willey
Lot Willey had a lot of bad luck. And bad timing. He was a sort of anti-Forrest Gump, with an uncanny knack for arriving in a town just...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 25, 20184 min read
Letter from Kaslo, 1901: The dear old Queen’s death
Below I’ve transcribed a six-page letter in my collection mailed by a woman visiting Kaslo with her mother shortly after the death of...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 4, 201810 min read
M.D. Cryderman, scenic artist for hire
Painting signs by hand has largely gone out of style but was once a common vocation. The men (and I imagine a few women) who did it for a...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 1, 20185 min read
Electric cars of Kootenay/Boundary: Home-made electric cars
Fourth of five parts Alexander Zuckerberg of Castlegar’s Zuckerberg Island had an electric car in the mid-1950s. An ingenious man, he no...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 12, 201814 min read
Overwaitea in West Kootenay/Boundary
One of the most venerable and unique made-in-BC business names ceased to exist on March 22, 2018 after 103 years. The last Overwaitea...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 8, 20182 min read
The burial of Sam McGee
Sam McGee wasn’t cremated in the Yukon — he was buried in Kaslo. Here’s his grave marker to prove it, as it appeared in 2008: I say this...
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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
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 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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