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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 29, 202010 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: Jiszkowicz’s grocery
I’ve long been curious about a yellow brick building at 103-05 Chatham St. in Nelson’s Fairview neighbourhood, seen below. It’s an oddity...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 17, 20205 min read
The first moving pictures in the Kootenay
I was intrigued to read in John Mackie’s This Week in History column in The Vancouver Sun : The first films in BC were shown in Victoria...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 29, 20195 min read
The former home of the Nelson Daily News
Before the Nelson Daily News moved to 266 Baker St., it was in the building now home to Jackson’s Hole.
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 29, 20195 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Economist office
On the heels of discovering that the last office of the Nelson Tribune (and probably the Nelson Ledge and Lowery’s Claim) is still...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 30, 20193 min read
The Man of a Thousand Faces in Nelson
It’s sort of well known that before earning stardom as Frankenstein’s monster, Boris Karloff performed on the stage in Nelson. But it has...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 29, 20196 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Johnstone Block
A recent post looked at the last home of the Nelson Tribune, which, much to my surprise, is still standing on Baker Street. Tracking the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 16, 20197 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: 182 Baker
The starting point for studies of Nelson heritage buildings is often Nelson: A Proposal for Urban Heritage Conservation , an excellent...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 16, 20192 min read
Another bird’s-eye-view map of Nelson
A couple of years ago, I wrote about Doug Jones’ quest to find an original copy of what he describes as the holy grail of Nelson maps: a...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 14, 201911 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Tribune’s last home
Here’s a story left out of Kootenay News — my exhibit at Touchstones Nelson on the history of Nelson’s newspapers — for lack of space....
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 4, 20193 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: The Barnard Block
Naomi Chester recently gave me a collection of slides and prints of West Kootenay taken by her stepfather, Al Peterson, mostly in the...
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Ted Burns
Aug 12, 20194 min read
The little stores of Nelson
In a guest post, Ted Burns looks at some of the corner stores that operated in Nelson during the 1950s.
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Greg Nesteroff
May 31, 20195 min read
Kinji Nagatani: Life of a toseinin
When Kinji Nagatani died at Willowhaven Hospital on Kootenay Lake’s North Shore in 1970, with him went the amazing story of a roving...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 8, 20192 min read
Then & Now: Burns Block
The rare postcard below, which sold recently on eBay, shows the Burns Block at 560 Baker Street (formerly 514 Baker) in Nelson — although...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 7, 20193 min read
Black pioneers of West Kootenay: Wesley Ziegler
I was thrilled to find a postcard for sale on eBay recently of Nelson/Rossland pioneer Wesley Ziegler. It was taken by Campbell Art...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 7, 20192 min read
International lacrosse, 1911
A few outstanding postcards and photos sold recently on eBay showing Nelson sports teams, one of which was an action shot of a lacrosse...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 4, 20193 min read
Then & Now: Corner Brick
A terrific postcard popped up on eBay recently, showing the A. MacDonald & Co. warehouse at 623-25 Front Street in Nelson, ca. 1910 —...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 28, 20198 min read
A Japanese-Canadian soldier’s grave
The most unusual military grave in the Nelson cemetery is the one seen below, which belongs to Usaku Shibuta, who died at the Balfour...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 17, 20196 min read
The Nelson Independent
A copy of a short-lived and long-lost Nelson newspaper has surfaced: it’s the Sept. 20, 1913 edition of The Independent, whose existence...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 7, 20197 min read
The final fate of Nelson’s first fire chief
Nelson’s first fire chief following the city’s incorporation in 1897 was also the youngest chief ever — and the shortest serving. But for...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 21, 20193 min read
An aquatic prodigy on Kootenay Lake
In 1923, Frances West (also known as Florence), the six-year-old daughter of Edbert West, manager of the Ogilvie elevator in Taber,...
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