Big Bend Gold Rush
Mining in the area that we know as Big Bend Country was underway as early as 1864 but the chief activities took place between 1865-66. The following report from the…
Read MoreAPPALLING DISASTER IN PALLISER TUNNEL
The Golden Star – Oct 15, 1921 Double-Header Freight Crashed Into Cave-In Fourteen Miles East of Golden SEVEN ARE DEAD AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT Traffic Detoured over Kootenay Central Route…
Read MoreRecreation in Golden, BC
From the book titled “Kinbasket Country” the story of Golden and the Columbia Valley, comes a look at some of the old-time recreation that took place in the valley. Since…
Read MoreJAMES MEAGHER CARROLL AND THE DONNOLLY MURDERS
It’s like Christmas when the Golden Museum received a large lot of old legal documents that pertain to some of the homesteads in the area. The names on the paperwork…
Read MoreMurder at Field, BC
As is evidenced by the excavation and assessment carried out on the bodies removed by Simon Frazer University from the Golden Pioneer Cemetery, violence played a big role in the…
Read MoreCanadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Golden, BC
Have you ever thought about the number of times in a month you go to the bank? With cash machines all over the place, banking by phone and my personal…
Read MoreRogers Pass Snow Slide 1899
We have managed over the last 100 years to learn how to cause humankind to live longer. We have antibiotics to combat infection and pneumonia, two of the most common…
Read MoreEdelweiss Swiss Village
Shortly after the first trains of the C.P.R. crossed the mountains on their long haul to the Pacific Coast, reports of jagged peaks and unclimbed summits began to bring mountaineers…
Read MoreWorking on the Big Bend
From the Golden Star – August 28, 1936 When Canadian Pacific engineers faced the frowning heights from the junction of the Kicking Horse and Columbia rivers they had a choice of two paths. They could have sighted their transits north and…
Read MoreCountess of Dufferin
Museums are a way of preserving articles so that future generations have the opportunity to see “the real thing.” It’s an opportunity for people to see things as they once were, see them in operation…
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