Posts by Golden BC Museum

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…

The fire situation in the areas some distance from Golden is quite severe, with huge fires burning large tracts of timber. Here are some of the newspaper reports of fires…

Written by Minnie Fish for 1958 Golden Memories “Mr. John Wallace Conner came from Calgary in 1883. He had a contract for building a portion of the C.P.R. at Golden.…

The Donald Truth which was printed in Donald in 1888, and 1889, was quite the newspaper. Here are some notes from those papers. Keep in mind that these notes are…

By Mrs. E.A. Kallman for Golden Memories 1982 We left Sweden on October 10, 1893, and arrived in Golden on November 10th. We were five children: Charlie, Frank, Johnny, Claus,…

by Colleen Palumbo The information for this blog came originally from the small newsletter called the Mica Murmur and was reprinted in the Golden Star, on Mar 3, 1966. Many visitors to the…

by Thomas King The content of this story has been edited, to view the story in its entirety please visit the Golden Museum. Nestling just a mile above where the…

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,…

“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…