THE KÜTNE READER

There is no doubt what Trout Lake’s oldest building is. But what about the runner-up?

How a set of lost keys were found inside a fish and returned to their owner.

I bought this photo of the 1909 Gerrard football (soccer) team on eBay last month for a song. (One song = $8 US.) The seller was in...

In the 1960s, a medal from the 1900 Rossland Winter Carnival was found north of Oslo. Also: how did Ferguson get designated a heritage site?

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.

Nelson once had a floating dance pavilion and a large clubhouse for the boat club, both at the foot of Josephine Street.

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...

During West Kootenay’s mining boom of the 1890s, newspapers popped up like Starbucks franchises. But lugging a printing press into a...

Of the 100 or so cemeteries in West Kootenay/Boundary, two dozen can no longer be visited because they were either flooded out, exhumed,...

There are two curious things about the stock certificate seen below, issued by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of British...

The story of pioneer Trout Lake hotelier and prospector Alice Jowett is well told in books such as Circle of Silver as well as on the...

At a presentation on the history of Slocan Valley sawmills in November 2016, a forester suggested the poles for the original light stands...

Sundown Slim was the champion liar of the Lardeau. The king of whoppers. A master fibber without peer. He had a fabrication for every...

The photo below is probably the second most-reproduced image ever taken in West Kootenay (next to R.H. Trueman’s vertigo-inducing shot of...

Recently I posted the transcript of a letter from a little girl in Rossland in 1898 writing to her father to tell him what she received...

Did novelist Jack London once work in a tie camp at Lardeau? Jack London (Wikipedia/Little Pilgrimages, p. 235) The author is best known...

Three lots sold on eBay today featuring letterheads, letters, and envelopes from the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Co. and Standard...