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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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
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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