What’s Trout Lake’s second-oldest building?
There is no doubt what Trout Lake’s oldest building is. But what about the runner-up?
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 52 min read
A Trout Lake fish story
How a set of lost keys were found inside a fish and returned to their owner.
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Greg Nesteroff
May 294 min read
Gerrard’s 1909 football team
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 1, 20235 min read
The lost Rossland ski medal
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?
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 25, 20224 min read
A mystery monogram and an ancient arboreal autograph
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.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 31, 20217 min read
Nelson’s floating pavilions
Nelson once had a floating dance pavilion and a large clubhouse for the boat club, both at the foot of Josephine Street.
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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
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
Dec 24, 20186 min read
5 phantom cemeteries
Of the 100 or so cemeteries in West Kootenay/Boundary, two dozen can no longer be visited because they were either flooded out, exhumed,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 26, 20184 min read
Consolidated Mining and Smelting meets Krag the Kootenay Ram
There are two curious things about the stock certificate seen below, issued by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. of British...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 9, 20181 min read
How could you, Mrs. Jowett?
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 19, 20182 min read
Kootenay poles for Yankee stadium?
At a presentation on the history of Slocan Valley sawmills in November 2016, a forester suggested the poles for the original light stands...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 15, 201815 min read
The Adventures of Sundown Slim
Sundown Slim was the champion liar of the Lardeau. The king of whoppers. A master fibber without peer. He had a fabrication for every...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20188 min read
Mattie Gunterman and the Williams sisters
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 9, 20188 min read
Now let me scold you a little: the Westfall letters
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...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 8, 20183 min read
Jack London in the Kootenay
Did novelist Jack London once work in a tie camp at Lardeau? Jack London (Wikipedia/Little Pilgrimages, p. 235) The author is best known...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1, 20182 min read
A child’s Christmas in Rossland, 1898
Three lots sold on eBay today featuring letterheads, letters, and envelopes from the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Co. and Standard...
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