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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 20, 20213 min read
5 doctored West Kootenay postcards
Long before Photoshop, postcard publishers were using airbrushes and other tools to alter images.
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 27, 20217 min read
Architectural clones: The Nelson and Revelstoke courthouses
The first purpose-built courthouses in Nelson and Revelstoke looked nearly identical, a matter of some architectural intrigue.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 29, 20215 min read
Back alley brick buildings
A walk down some Trail and Nelson alleys reveals surprises in brick.
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Greg Nesteroff
May 20, 20215 min read
What the Nelson fire bug wrought
Photos of the destruction caused by the Nelson fire bug of 1911-12 have improbably turned up.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 28, 20214 min read
Tom Murphy (1932-2021)
The two things Tom Murphy was best known for happened within three months of each other: fighting Nelson’s deadliest fire and an epic swim.
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Jonathan Kalmakoff and Greg Nesteroff
Apr 1, 202121 min read
A place called Skalistoye
Grohman Narrows Park has been many things, including a Doukhobor ranch and the site of a First Nations battle.
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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
Nov 25, 202015 min read
Gil Evans in Nelson
A man Miles Davis called “the greatest musician in the world” briefly went to school in Nelson.
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 13, 202016 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: 120 Vernon St.
The full story of the former Doukhobor headquarters in Nelson.
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 28, 20203 min read
Old Boyes club
Did former Montreal Wanderers goalie Art Boyce (aka Boyes) play for Nelson in 1917? Spoiler: no. It’s a case of mistaken identity.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 29, 202013 min read
A picture postcard romance
A love story involving an Italian-Canadian miner from Nelson, his Cornish bride, and the postcard that brought them together.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 3, 202019 min read
Syd Desireau: West Kootenay’s first pro hockey player
The first professional hockey player born in BC was from Nelson.
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 7, 20205 min read
The Housekeeping trestle
One of the chief set pieces of the movie Housekeeping, filmed in the fall of 1986 in and around Nelson and Castlegar, was a huge wooden...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 22, 20203 min read
Nelson’s forgotten reservoir
Some of the earliest picture postcards of Nelson (seen below) look west down the Kootenay River with the corner of a pond in the...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 15, 20206 min read
Geordie Smith: Nelson’s Lusitania hero
I’ve written before about people from the Kootenay who were aboard the SS Lusitania the night it was sunk by a German U-boat in May 1915,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 12, 20206 min read
Nellie McClung in Nelson
In 1937, prominent suffragette Nellie McClung visited Nelson. She wrote about it in her book More Leaves from Lantern Lane, a collection...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 2, 20207 min read
Castle Brewery
Having studied one brewery in Nelson’s Fairview neighbourhood that was planned but never built, here’s the story of another that was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 4, 202020 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: Home Private Hospital
I’ve previously written about sites in West Kootenay associated with the Patrick family, famous for their exploits in early lumbering and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 2, 202013 min read
Taffy Jack
Around 1995, Nelson’s Heritage Inn renamed its basement lounge Taffy Jack’s. This was an interesting choice, for while Taffy Jack was a...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 1, 202011 min read
Nelson’s Gyro Park lights and illuminated signs
Between Kootenay Lake Hospital and Gyro Park in Nelson are decorative lights that are often seen but seldom remarked upon. They’re...
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