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Greg Nesteroff
May 15, 20185 min read
Lester Patrick returns to Nelson
A previous post looked at surviving West Kootenay landmarks related to the Patrick family, hockey pioneers who lived in Nelson from...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 3, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Winslow Motors
This business at 323 Vernon Street in Nelson only existed from about 1969-71. Winslow Sommerfeldt (1923-2016) was president and his son...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 29, 20187 min read
Electric cars of Kootenay/Boundary: An electric car fit for a king?
Third in a series on local electric cars The most noteworthy early electric vehicle in our area belonged to a Kootenay lumber baron, the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 26, 20183 min read
Electric cars of Kootenay/Boundary: The greatest place on Earth
Second of five parts In 2016, John Mackie of The Vancouver Sun wrote an interesting story about early electric vehicles, and called...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 23, 20181 min read
Wandering manhole covers of West Kootenay
Is Trail missing a manhole cover? If so, public works might want to call their counterparts in Nelson, because there’s one in Railtown...
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 1, 20181 min read
Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge to be painted
The Big Orange Bridge will soon be the Big Green Bridge. The new private owner of the span across Kootenay Lake’s West Arm in Nelson...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 31, 20181 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Nelson city hall, 1940
In 1940, Nelson city council was planning to build a new city hall next door to its existing one at the foot of Ward Street. Local...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 30, 20182 min read
Phantom signs: Hume Hotel
Sometime after the Silver King Hotel in Nelson was demolished in 1947, a sign (seen below, circa 1960s) was painted on the side of KWC...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 30, 201812 min read
Hyde, Titsworth, and the Silver King Hotel
A few months ago I was forwarded this tattered but terrific photo, previously unseen (at least by me). It shows the Silver King Hotel and...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: Swift Canadian
Second in a series on signs that outlived the businesses they advertised. This one is on the back of the building at 607 Front St. in...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 19, 20183 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Kootenay Towers, 1957
There is a space between Vernon and Lake streets in Nelson that, near as I can tell, has always been vacant. Several buildings have been...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 16, 20181 min read
Phantom signs: A.S. Horswill & Co. and Campion’s Grocery
This is the first in a series looking at phantom signs of West Kootenay/Boundary. I thought I would start with a Nelson building that has...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 15, 20183 min read
Bill Miner’s Nelson double
Notorious train robber Bill Miner had a lookalike in Nelson. This story appeared in the Nelson Daily News on Nov. 16, 1911 and was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 9, 20182 min read
Baker Streets of the Kootenays
When he wasn’t out sleuthing, Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in London. According to Wikipedia, at the time Sir Arthur Conan...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 5, 20184 min read
An assassin on Kootenay Lake
Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg was assassinated on Dec. 30, 1905 when a bomb exploded at his house in Caldwell. The sole person...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 4, 20185 min read
Malone Manor
My wife recently surprised me with the gift of a 1978 Robert Inwood print of Malone Manor. For 88 years, it was one of Nelson’s most...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 3, 20184 min read
Chinese Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Mar Sam
The photo below, taken in 1950, shows the evocative Mar Sam laundry at the corner of Front, Lake, and Ward streets in Nelson. You’ll...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 19, 20189 min read
3 little-known Nelson heritage buildings
Nelson boasts about 350 heritage buildings — commercial, residential, and institutional — based on those listed in 1981 in Nelson: A...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 10, 201811 min read
6 Kootenay sites connected to Hockey’s Royal Family
From 1907 to 1911, members of the Patrick family lived in Nelson while operating a lumber company that owned timber limits in the Slocan...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 31, 20181 min read
Nelson’s Big Silver Bridge
I just wrote a blog post for Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism about Nelson’s Big Orange Bridge, which was originally silver, as seen in the...
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