Posts by Golden BC Museum

Building The Kicking Horse Trail From 2000 Golden Memories The completion of the Kicking Horse Trail marked the end of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time and…

Museum Memoirs by Colleen Palumbo Mountain Tragedy We have managed over the last 100 years to learn how to cause humankind to live longer. We have antibiotics to combat infection…

Have you ever seen the book called “Sawdust Caesars” by Denis Marshall? It’s the story of the lumbering in the Salmon Arm area. The reason that I’m sharing this information is that many of the key players in the saga were once residents of…

Late in 1997, the Golden Museum was asked to do some research work for a woman from Valemount who was interested in writing a book about the first Supreme Court Trial to…

This story of the Holt family was prepared by Nora Holt, and tells the story of several of Golden’s early settlers, and includes the Underhill, and Peters’ families as well…

The History of Glacier House John Marsh authored this in April 1970 for the Golden & District Historical Society The completion of the Trans-Canada Highway through the Selkirk Mountains, via…

The Seward Family – For Golden Memories 1982 One of the first families to homestead in the Blaeberry area was the Sewards. William Grant Seward was born in Farmington, near…

The Golden Era – November 3, 1899 “NOT GUILTY” The Verdict in the Tete Jaune Cache Murder Trail – The Jury Deliberated About One Hour and Returned in Favor of…

This story was written by Nora (Toots) Holt Reed in 1978. Nora passed away in December of 1981. The story of the Holt family as prepared by Nora Holt, tells…

The Harrison Family first came to the Columbia Valley in 1903 taking up a homestead on the south side of Deadman’s Creek.  These are the unedited memories of Stan Harrison.…