The lost Rossland ski medal
In the 1960s, a medal from the 1900 Rossland Winter Carnival was found north of Oslo. Also: how did Ferguson get designated a heritage site?
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Greg Nesteroff
Jun 29, 202111 min read
Pioneer women of West Kootenay: Martha Collins
Martha Collins was a pioneer prospector and hotel keeper whose name was once known in every mining camp in the west.
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Jonathan Kalmakoff and Greg Nesteroff
Oct 22, 20205 min read
West Kootenay Boundary’s first Doukhobors
New discoveries reveal that Doukhobors were finding their way to British Columbia several years before a mass migration began in 1908.
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Greg Nesteroff
Apr 11, 20192 min read
Elephants on the Santa Rosa Pass
In 1956, local Greyhound driver Max Carne was taking his bus over the old Santa Rosa Pass between Rossland and Grand Forks — a gravel...
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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
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
Jan 18, 20199 min read
Ted’s tribute: Remembering a fallen pilot on the Santa Rosa summit
This is the story of a local woman’s search for the place where her father died more than 60 years ago. It begins with Donald Edward...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 8, 20194 min read
High weirdness over Rossland
One of West Kootenay’s best bits of folklore is the Flying Steamshovel, the story of an amateur aviation enthusiast who apparently built...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 2, 20181 min read
First Nations faces in Rossland
An amazing cabinet card sold on eBay last week for $181.50 US ($240 Cdn), showing two First Nations people in a studio portrait by...
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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
Aug 6, 20181 min read
Found in a gunnysack
Earlier this year I wrote about a billhead from the New Zealand Hotel that Jada Regis of the Northport Historical Society found in a...
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Greg Nesteroff
May 29, 20182 min read
Rossland needs women!
John Gibb Devlin (1865-1925), alias the Gunner from Galway, was a well-known early Kootenay character. One funny story about him is how...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20183 min read
Buildings that weren’t: Trail hotel, Rossland apartments, 1927
These Art Deco masterpieces, held by the City of Vancouver Archives, were drawn by the firm of Townley and Matheson, who designed...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 12, 20182 min read
The Rossland Mystery Booster
In 1992, a classified ad appeared in The Mystery Review, a now-defunct quarterly magazine, that read as follows: Put Rossland, British...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 9, 20188 min read
Now let me scold you a little: the Westfall letters
Recently I posted the transcript of a letter from a little girl in Rossland in 1898 writing to her father to tell him what she received...
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Greg Nesteroff
Mar 1, 20182 min read
A child’s Christmas in Rossland, 1898
Three lots sold on eBay today featuring letterheads, letters, and envelopes from the Old Gold Quartz and Placer Mining Co. and Standard...
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Greg Nesteroff
Feb 8, 20182 min read
Miracle in Rossland
Here’s a gallery of photos I took on March 3, 2003 during filming in Rossland of the Kurt Russell movie Miracle. Columbia Avenue was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 19, 20182 min read
Postcard maker gone wild
Some of the most amazing West Kootenay postcards ever produced show the Rossland mines underground in the 1900s. I don’t know how the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 18, 20181 min read
Rossland/Greenwood syphon nets $1,700
A clear syphon from the Lion Bottling Works of Rossland and Greenwood (pictured below) sold on eBay this afternoon for $1,382 US, which...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 17, 20184 min read
Triplets of West Kootenay
The clipping below from the Rossland Miner of Oct. 11, 1938 is about the Knudsgaard brothers, Einer, Erik, and Frankie. They were not the...
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