Across the border

Sep 46 min read

3 lost Northport buildings

Three little-known Northport buildings that have disappeared since 2007 each had intriguing stories.

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Jun 2211 min read

Guilty or innocent: The fate of Charles Bodman

Was a respected chief engineer on an Arrow Lakes sternwheeler also an opium smuggler?

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Dec 18, 202311 min read

Evel Knievel’s Kootenay connection

Before Evel Knievel was a motorcycle stuntman, he was Bob Knievel, hockey player.

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Sep 1, 202310 min read

What West Kootenay owes to Montana

Trail and Butte share certain nomenclature. The same guy built both of their smelters. And they have other ties too.

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Jan 16, 20204 min read

Kiwanis border monuments

The Paterson and Nelway border crossings both have peace monuments erected by Kiwanis clubs on both sides of the border amid much...

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Dec 1, 20187 min read

Canadian-born mayors of Northport

It may be in Washington state, but I regard Northport as an honourary West Kootenay town, given that its existence from 1898 to 1921 was...

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May 22, 20185 min read

Playmates on the border

The remarkable postcard seen below shows two friends, Anna Norris of Boundary, Wash., and Velma Shields, of Waneta, who didn’t let a...

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Jan 15, 20183 min read

The New Zealand Hotel(s)

Jada Regis of the Northport Historical Society recently came across a gunnysack full of old paper from the Kendrick store and Northport...

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Jan 2, 20183 min read

Spokane’s Slocan saloon

In the early 1890s, three American cities boasted saloons called the Slocan. They don’t appear to have been connected and their...

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