Keith King

Keith King was running for a position on town council and had the following writeup in an ad that appeared in the Golden Star.  Less than a year later the…

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Sid Webber

Memories of Sid Webber Told by Fred Jacobs to Colleen Palumbo in an interview in the winter of January 2000. For context Fred Jacobs was a well-known trapper and hunter…

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Golden Flower Shop

By Paul Hambruch For 2000 Golden Memories The Golden Flower Shop, owned and operated by myself and my wife Ingrid, came into being on March the 2nd 1961. We had…

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Alex Matheson Family

In the spring of 1906 Alex Matheson and his brother-in-law, Robert McBeath, arrived in Canada from Dornich, Scotland. They were following Douglas and Sam McBeath who had immigrated to Canada…

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Golden, BC Court House

The first government services building in our district was built in Donald in 1884 and served a wide area, so large in fact that it wasn’t long before a modern…

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The Golden Rink Company

By Colleen Palumbo Heavy snowfall in 1896 caused the roof of the curling rink to collapse, taking one whole side of the rink with it. Twice in Golden’s history their…

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The John Barr Family

From the Nostalgia Column of the Golden Star, November 8, 1978 Five generations of the Barr family have lived and are living in the East Kootenays. This family who’s our…

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