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…

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…

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…

The following article is from 2000 Golden Memories which was published by the Golden & District Historical Society in 2000. The mountain community of Golden has one of the oldest…

From the Hospital Supplement of the Golden Gazette History of Hospital Care in Golden During the Last Century David Thompson of the N.W. Company was the first white man to…

In the latter half of the 1970’s the Golden Star ran a really interesting series called Nostalgia. Sometimes the stories ran several weeks in a row in order to get…

This area. That we love and have come to call home wasn’t always the wondrous place that it is today. There was a time, 130 or so years ago when…

From time to time I share with you some of our more unusual museum items. Things like tramp art, a 17th century Japanese soldier’s mask, a letter from King William…

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…