Posts by Golden BC Museum
The Story of Golden
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…
Read MoreColumbia 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,…
Read MoreThe Mountain-Wise Disaster-Trained Railroaders Saved the Widow’s Home
From the Daily Colonist, November 15, 1964 By Edmund E. Pugsley “I have seen many ghost towns since I came to Canada from Sweden in 1889. And I have read…
Read MoreMining Report – Field BC to Golden BC
The Miner – October 7, 1897 In the year 1886 Mr. R.G. McConnell, of the Geological Survey department, made an examination of the Rocky mountain range comprised within the belt…
Read MoreGORDON BARR FAMILY HISTORY
John Barr, born in Ontario of Irish origin, married Emma June Puffer in Ontario in about 1871. John was a farmer, who soon took up lumbering at the mill in…
Read MoreSHERIFF STEPHEN REDGRAVE
One of the most interesting and colorful personalities emerging from the history of the past is Stephen Redgrave. As Senior-officer, Sheriff of Kootenay he served the Donald-Golden area from April…
Read MoreThe Stopping Place At Wapta BC
Written by Claire Graham for Golden Memories Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were an interesting couple. They ran the stopping place at Wapta. They first met at Donald BC during the…
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