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3 lost Northport buildings
Three little-known Northport buildings that have disappeared since 2007 each had intriguing stories.
Greg Nesteroff
Sep 4, 20247 min read
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Guilty or innocent: The fate of Charles Bodman
Was a respected chief engineer on an Arrow Lakes sternwheeler also an opium smuggler?
Michael A. Cone
Jun 22, 202411 min read
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Evel Knievel’s Kootenay connection
Before Evel Knievel was a motorcycle stuntman, he was Bob Knievel, hockey player.
Greg Nesteroff
Dec 18, 202311 min read
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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.
Greg Nesteroff
Sep 1, 202310 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 16, 20205 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Dec 1, 20187 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
May 22, 20185 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 15, 20183 min read
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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...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 2, 20183 min read
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