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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 9, 20224 min read
Pickles the driving dog and other oddities
A few curious things: a dog behind the wheel, a basketball team named the Comincos, and Yale University helps tear down buildings in Trail.
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Greg Nesteroff
Oct 25, 202113 min read
Letters from the End of Track
Five envelopes mailed in 1885 by a CPR camp cook working near present-day Revelstoke have sold at auction for nearly $7,000.
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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
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
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
Jan 2, 20183 min read
Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Yodo Fujii
Long before Japanese Canadians were interned in the West Kootenay during the Second World War, a small number already lived here. They...
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