The grand old lady of the Nelson Daily News
When the Nelson Daily News celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 1952, they printed a special supplement that included mugshots of all...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 11, 20185 min read
Trail’s smelter stairs
Below are four postcard images from my collection of Trail’s Jacob’s Ladder, also known as the Golden Stairway, the Golden Stairs, or...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 7, 20181 min read
Canada’s Sherlock Holmes got his start in Trail
I just finished reading Eve Lazarus’ book Blood, Sweat, and Fear, about John F.C.B. Vance (1884-1964), a Vancouver forensic scientist who...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 5, 20183 min read
Art Waldie (1923-2017)
The man who carved the signs seen below (or at least their original iteration) has died at 94. According to his obituary, Art Waldie was...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 4, 20184 min read
The Mystery Photographer
Many pioneer photographers signed their work — a smart marketing move. Many others did not, leaving us guessing who might have been...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 4, 20181 min read
Beard rentals
A bizarre ad from a 1947 edition of the Rossland Miner (the city was celebrating its 50th birthday, hence the need for faux facial hair)....
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 3, 20182 min read
Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: George Motosawa
George Motosawa was a restaurateur and laundry owner in two West Kootenay ghost towns. We know he was born April 6, 1867 and immigrated...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 3, 20181 min read
Lois Arnesen (1928-2017)
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Nelson’s Lois Arnesen (pictured below) on New Year’s Eve. I wrote a profile of Lois in 2012 for the...
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Greg Nesteroff
Jan 2, 20183 min read
Japanese-Canadian pioneers of West Kootenay: Yodo Fujii
Long before Japanese Canadians were interned in the West Kootenay during the Second World War, a small number already lived here. They...
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Greg Nesteroff
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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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 31, 20171 min read
Alfie Albo’s garage
An ad from the Rossland Miner’s historical edition of 1938 contained a photo of a dapper-looking Alfie Albo, proprietor of the Columbia...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 31, 20174 min read
A girl named Rossland
Below is a clipping from the Rossland Miner’s special historical edition of Oct. 11, 1938, about the first baby born in Rossland. The...
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Greg Nesteroff
Dec 30, 20172 min read
Nelson’s Disney imposter
In 1950, a man registered himself in a Vancouver hotel as Walt Disney. He certainly looked like the famed cartoonist. On that basis, he...
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