Archive for August 2022
Columbia Valley Co-Operative Creamery Association
The people of the valley were looking at ways to use some of the resources they already had to create financial opportunities. The realized that unless they all worked together,…
Read MoreTom Wilson, Trail Blazer and Trail Rider
“Tom Wilson, last of the Kicking Horse Pass trailblazers of 1881, cross the final Great Divide on Wednesday.” So read the opening of a telegraphic dispatch appearing in the Canadian…
Read MoreKootenay District
It’s fascinating to look back at old manuscripts, manuals and booklets, that describe life in and around Golden in the time before we were all born. This excerpt comes from…
Read MoreThe CPR Big Hill and Field, BC
The Big Hill By H.T. Coleman – February 1945 CPR Bulletin The statement that the world has no more spectacular piece of railroad than that which lies between Banff, Alberta,…
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