Waneta

Dec 1017 min read

Bridges of the Pend d’Oreille

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

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Feb 6, 20238 min read

Waneta in postcards and other ephemera

Presenting six rare or never-before-seen postcards of Waneta recently sold online and probably dating to the 1910s.

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May 13, 20213 min read

Tales old envelopes tell

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

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Jan 6, 20191 min read

1862 Fort Shepherd envelope nets $1,600

An envelope mailed from London to Fort Shepherd in January 1862 sold today for $1,600 Cdn. The piece was part of the Gerald Wellburn gold...

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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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Feb 4, 20186 min read

Letters from the Salmo River, 1893

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

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Feb 4, 20189 min read

Death on the Dewdney Trail

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

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Feb 1, 20182 min read

3 ways Waneta didn’t get its name

I’ve long written a weekly series for the local Black Press newspapers about West Kootenay/Boundary place names. In my installment on...

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