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Letters from the End of Track
Five envelopes mailed in 1885 by a CPR camp cook working near present-day Revelstoke have sold at auction for nearly $7,000.
Greg Nesteroff
Oct 25, 202113 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Jun 25, 20184 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 9, 20188 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1, 20182 min read
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Letters from the Salmo River, 1893
In 1893, a prospector named Baxter wrote two letters to the Northwest Mining Review of Spokane from the Salmo River (then called the...
Greg Nesteroff
Feb 4, 20186 min read
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Antlered monarchs and flim-flam artists: letters from Nelson, 1905-06
Last year I bought three letters on eBay mailed in 1905-06 by Alexander Howard McIntyre from Nelson to his family in Middleville, Lanark...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 26, 20186 min read
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