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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…

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…

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…

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…

The following the memories are from Clark Peters. He sent them to the Golden Museum by e-mail and is pleased for us to share them with the community. He is…

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…

Without a bylaw in effect to protect the homes of historic significance in Golden it is really easy for people to tear down old homes and make way for new…

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…