Posts Tagged ‘Donald BC’
The Mountain-Wise Disaster-Trained Railroaders Saved the Widow’s Home
From the Daily Colonist, November 15, 1964 By Edmund E. Pugsley “I have seen many ghost towns since I came to Canada from Sweden in 1889. And I have read…
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 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 MoreWhen Golden Was A Tent Town
During the construction of the C.P.R. west of the summit of the Rockies, during the years 1884 and 1885, it was first intended to locate the divisional point at the…
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