THE KÜTNE READER

Four bridges have crossed the Canadian side of the Pend d’Oreille River, two of which still stand. Others were proposed.

A 113-year-old school bell is expected to be returned soon to a prominent place in Salmo. But what happened to its plaque?

In June 2018, the Salmo Valley Historical Society got a peek inside the Salmo Hotel, including the second floor and basement.

Was the Salmo Hotel built in 1896? 1912? 1932? 1981? Find out here and a whole lot more.

When was the Salmo bridge built? When was Rivervale named? Why doesn’t Nelson have a Robert Hampton Gray school? At last we have answers.

One day in Sheep Creek, a giant boulder came crashing down the mountainside, flattening the front end of a car and hitting a house.

Martha Collins was a pioneer prospector and hotel keeper whose name was once known in every mining camp in the west.

Several envelopes that sold at auction have intriguing connections to West Kootenay Japanese-Canadian, Chinese Canadian, and mining history.

In 1910, a remarkable curved bridge was built at Salmo across a slough formed by the Salmo River.

Salmo first came to prominence as the result of a bar room murder in 1893. The town — then little more than a cluster of shacks — was...

One of West Kootenay’s least known attractions is an amazing map of the Kootenays and Okanagan in the pub of the Salmo Hotel, created in...

I recently came across a charming anecdote about hockey legend Lester Patrick in West Kootenay that I had never seen before — and in fact...

Is being a hospital’s one millionth patient an honour? It was in January 1938, when Florence Lumsden of Salmo registered at the Mayo...

At a presentation on the history of Slocan Valley sawmills in November 2016, a forester suggested the poles for the original light stands...

One of the most venerable and unique made-in-BC business names ceased to exist on March 22, 2018 after 103 years. The last Overwaitea...

When he wasn’t out sleuthing, Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street in London. According to Wikipedia, at the time Sir Arthur Conan...

In 1893, a prospector named Baxter wrote two letters to the Northwest Mining Review of Spokane from the Salmo River (then called the...

In 1989, Donna Bishop and Joan Field produced a report for the Salmo Arts and Museum Society entitled Dewdney Trail 1865. They wrote the...