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The John Barr Family
From the Nostalgia Column of the Golden Star, November 8, 1978 Five generations of the Barr family have lived and are living in the East Kootenays. This family who’s our…
Read MoreHow the Golden Star Printing Press Came to Be at The Golden Museum
Written by Minnie Fish for 1958 Golden Memories “Mr. John Wallace Conner came from Calgary in 1883. He had a contract for building a portion of the C.P.R. at Golden.…
Read MoreFrom The Donald Truth Newspaper
The Donald Truth which was printed in Donald in 1888, and 1889, was quite the newspaper. Here are some notes from those papers. Keep in mind that these notes are…
Read MoreThe Nicholson Family
By Mrs. E.A. Kallman for Golden Memories 1982 We left Sweden on October 10, 1893, and arrived in Golden on November 10th. We were five children: Charlie, Frank, Johnny, Claus,…
Read MoreBoat Encampment
by Colleen Palumbo The information for this blog came originally from the small newsletter called the Mica Murmur and was reprinted in the Golden Star, on Mar 3, 1966. Many visitors to the…
Read MoreThe 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,…
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