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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 12, 20192 min read
Becoming BOB
One oft-asked historical question is exactly when Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge was painted orange. It was originally silver when built in...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 19, 20187 min read
Kootenaians on the Lusitania’s last voyage
Six West Kootenay/Boundary residents and one former resident were among the 1,200 passengers and crew who perished when a German U-boat...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 12, 20185 min read
Verna Felton in Nelson
What does Fred Flintstone’s mother-in-law have to do with West Kootenay? The woman who provided the original voice for Pearl Slaghoople...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 6, 201814 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Alice Foster
The photo below comes from a glass plate negative found in Alexander T. Garland’s store in Kaslo and is believed to show the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Nov 5, 20183 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Fritz-Steiner Brewery, 1912
The Nelson Daily News of Nov. 2, 1912 announced a new brewery would be built in Nelson’s Fairview neighbourhood between Nelson Avenue and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 18, 20183 min read
Tipis on the Nelson waterfront
Recently Doug Jones bought a batch of early Nelson photos from someone in England. There were lots of terrific shots, but what left Doug...
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 17, 20183 min read
Lakeside Bungalow Court
I had a call recently from Mitzi Hufty, who was reminiscing about the old Lakeside Motel in Nelson — presently being demolished to make...
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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 20, 20182 min read
Nelson’s Railtown before the highway interchange
Photos of Nelson’s Railtown neighborhood prior to the construction of the Highway 3A-6 interchange in the early 1970s are inexplicably...
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 31, 20183 min read
Nelson neon at night, 1968
Recently I’ve been posting photos by the late Ellis Anderson on the Lost Kootenays Facebook site. Anderson was a Creston photographer who...
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 31, 20184 min read
Little-known Nelson heritage buildings: 606 Front
Touchstones Nelson recently posted a photo of the wedge-shaped building at 606 Front Street their Flickr account. It doesn’t look like...
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 25, 20182 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Notre Dame University library, 1972
Nelson historian/author Peter Bartl shared this amazing rendering with me, showing a planned new library for the Notre Dame University...
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 17, 20182 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Nelson aquatic centre, 1947
The following concept sketch of an aquatic centre for Nelson’s Lakeside Park appeared in the Daily News of Oct. 25, 1949, signed by local...
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Greg Nesteroff
Aug 2, 20183 min read
Radio aircheck: KC News, 1975
Here’s a newscast that aired on KC Radio in Nelson and Creston on Jan. 21, 1975, read by Ray Zinck, who sent it to me quite a few years...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 22, 20183 min read
Helicopter crash in Nelson, 1960
Kyle Kusch of the Arrow Lakes Historical Society just finished digitizing more than 800 slides from Wilf (Hufty) Hewat, a pilot and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 21, 20182 min read
Thomas Edison in Nelson
Inventor Thomas Edison (seen below in a Wikipedia photo) passed through Nelson 110 years ago. While his visit was fleeting, he told a...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jul 13, 201810 min read
Holy Grails of Kootenay history
Many’s the time I’ve come across something historically interesting in a newspaper only to: a) Fail to fully appreciate its significance...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 28, 20185 min read
An aeroplane in Kootenay Lake, 1919
The postcard below is part of a sequence showing Lieut. George Knopp Trim’s flight around Nelson during the fall fair of 1919 — and crash...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 21, 20184 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Kootenay Lake Hospital, 1910
Nelson has had three Kootenay Lake Hospitals. The first, built in 1893 near 40 High Street, had a dozen beds. According to Dr. Lorris E....
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 13, 20187 min read
William Randolph Hearst in West Kootenay
Did William Randolph Hearst (pictured below in a photo from Wikipedia), the larger-than-life American newspaper publisher who invented...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 29, 20182 min read
Phantom signs: Baker’s Grocery
Go for a walk on Beatty Avenue in Nelson, down by the waterfront next to the RCMP station, and you will come across this curious...
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