Claus Nikolson Family

Claus Nicholson by Beda Blain From 2000 Golden Memories Klaus Victor Niklasson (Clause Victor Niksolson) was born September 3, 1886, the fourth child of Nils Daniel Niklasson and Charlotte Marie…

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Welcome 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…

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The 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…

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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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