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Greg Nesteroff
Sep 14, 20218 min read
Fake news, 1890: The $10,000 wedding proposal
A Kootenay teacher was once offered a small fortune by a bride-to-be in Minnesota, sight unseen. Who was he and what happened?
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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 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 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
Apr 7, 20198 min read
Wandering printing presses of West Kootenay
During West Kootenay’s mining boom of the 1890s, newspapers popped up like Starbucks franchises. But lugging a printing press into a...
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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
Dec 16, 20188 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Ralphia Weir Stitt McLean Borrow
I’m not sure who the first woman to work for a West Kootenay/Boundary newspaper was, but it may have been Harriet Haire Smith, a daughter...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 26, 20182 min read
Robert T. Lowery’s last newspaper folds
The first newspaper Robert Thornton Lowery was involved in — and the last still in business — is folding after 139 years. This cartoon,...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 18, 20181 min read
Sandon Paystreak envelope sells for $241
A neat item sold this afternoon on eBay for $192 US (which is $241 Cdn): an envelope from the Sandon Paystreak newspaper. It was...
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