Posts by Golden BC Museum
First Sikh Temple in North America
The great famine of 1899-1900 was responsible for the deaths of millions of people in India. Initially brought on by a heavy drought and crop failures, living conditions were exasperated…
Read MoreWelcome CPR
February 9 – 1983 – The Golden Star WELCOME CPR CP confirmed last week that golden will be the site for a $40 million coal car repair depot. The announcement…
Read MoreThe Crandall Family
Nostalgia – September 5, 1979 A REGULAR FEATURE IN THE GOLDEN STAR Bill Crandall story as told to Mike Redfern. It’s seldom you’ll find a man these days who’s still…
Read MoreKeith 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…
Read MoreSid 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…
Read MoreGolden 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…
Read MoreAlex 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…
Read MoreMemories of Beavermouth, BC
The following the memories are from Clark Peters. He sent them to the Golden Museum by e-mail and is pleased for us to share them with the community. He is…
Read MoreGolden, 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…
Read MoreGolden’s Heritage Register of Buildings & Monuments
Without a bylaw in effect to protect the homes of historic significance in Golden it is really easy for people to tear down old homes and make way for new…
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