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	Queen Brothers, Fort Steele Trappers A photo of both Queen brothers at Fort Steele, behind their cabin on Riverside Avenue withpart of the winter harvest.	Call Number: 0015.0004 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1910
	Queen Brothers, Fort Steele Trappers The Queen Brothers at Fort Steele, shown at the back of their cabin on Riverside Avenue with part of their winter harvest.	Call Number: 0015.0005 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1910
	Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co. Label Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Company beer bottle label for Fernie Old Ale, brewed in Fernie.	Call Number: 0017.0003 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1915
	Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co. Label A beer label for Fernie Beer from the Fernie-Fort Steele Brewing Co., in Fernie, B.C.	Call Number: 0017.0004 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1915
	Windsor Hotel Bar, Fort Steele Taken in Windsor Hotel bar at Fort Steele - left to right George Thrasher, Dave Coffey, Jim Buckman	Call Number: 0040.0001 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1945
	Hand Drawn Linen Map - Kaslo to Fort Steele Hand drawn linen map of rivers and towns between Kaslo and Fort Steele.	Call Number: 0247.0003 Medium: Map Date: unknown
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele The Fort Steele Water Tower serving as the cover drawing for a series of 8 pen and ink drawings. Each drawing has a small statement on the history of Fort Steele attached. This work was produced for the tourist trade.	Call Number: 0434.0001 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele Pen and Ink Drawing by Ray Mannix of Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police. He established the first North West Mounted Police post in British Columbia weswt of the Rockies. In 1887, with Inspectors S.T. Wood, C.F.A. Huot, Surgeon F.H. Powell and the men of 'D' Division, which totaled 75 officers and men, arrived from Fort McLeod in July to establish their first post west of the Rocky Mountains. The Presence of the first Police Force created a more stable atmosphere in the Kootenays. Superintendent "Sam" Steele with his usual tact and sense of fairness soon had established law and order between the Indians and the whites. Having accomplished its task, returned to Fort McLeod in August, 1888, leaving the small settlement of Galbraith's Ferry, which was soon to be renamed Fort Steele, and still bears his name to this day.	Call Number: 0434.0002 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele The Windsor Hotel at Fort Steele. Built in 1895 by Robert D. Mather-originally called "The Dalgardno House".	Call Number: 0434.0003 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele The Ferry Office at Fort Steele. Part of this log building dates back to the Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush of 1864-66. Built by John Galbraith and used first as the Ferry Office, it later served as Post Office and residence. John Galbraith operated the ferry from 1864 until 1870. Robert Galbraith then took over and operated it until the first bridge was built in 1888.	Call Number: 0434.0004 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele A drawing of the original Fort Steele Water Tower. Built in 1897 near the original site of the 1887 North West Mounted Police post, this water tower became a prominent landmark of Fort Steele. Often mistaken as part of a fortification of the Police Post, it was perhaps a symbol of the optimism of the townspeople of the 1890's.	Call Number: 0434.0005 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele The Express and Stageline Office at Fort Steele Historic Park. This was an original building converted to a display depicting the stage service operating in the 1890s between Fort Steele and Golden and Kalispell, U.S.A.	Call Number: 0434.0006 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele The Perry Creek Water Wheel. This prominent landmark at Fort Steele Historic Park was built on Perry Creek in 1933-34. It was designed to provide cheap power for pumping water from placer mine tunnels at bed rock deep under the channel of Perry Creek, 25 miles west of Fort Steele. The 32-foot diameter Overshot Wheel operated only intermittently over several years.	Call Number: 0434.0007 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Fort Steele. The first church to be built at Fort Steele, it was dedicated on October 31, 1897 by Father Coccola.	Call Number: 0434.0008 Medium: Ephemera Author: Ray Mannix Date: 1975
	St. Mary River near Fort Steele, B.C. St. Mary River near Fort Steele, B.C. - 1913.	Call Number: 0436.0011 Medium: Postcard Photographer: Frank B. Scott Date: 1913
	Bridge at Fort Steele, B.C. The second bridge constructed across the Kootenay River at Fort Steele, B.C. - 1913.	Call Number: 0436.0013 Medium: Postcard Photographer: Frank B. Scott Date: 1913
	Fort Steele, B.C. A long view of Fort Steele, near Cranbrook, B.C., looking up the WIld Horse valley. (Cranbrook Series No. 28), postcard front, linked to 0457.0284.	Call Number: 0457.0283 Medium: Photograph Photographer: J. Fred Spalding Date: Circa 1940
	Fort Steele Stage On Parade This replica stagecoach was sup0plied to Fort Steele by Victoria. It served as transportation around Fort Steele for several years until Fort Steele built a "people wagon," at which point this fibreglass stagecoach was sent to Barkerville. The parqade is believed to be at Cranbrook.	Call Number: 0460.0001 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1970
	Fort Steele Water Tower The original Fort Steele water tower, after which the lookout tower at Fort Steele Heritage Town was modeled. Sited overlooking the Wild Horse Creek and close beside the originial North West Mounted Police post, this artifact burned by act of arson in the 1980s.	Call Number: 0464.0001 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1980
	Placer Mining at Wild Horse Creek General View of hydraulic workings around 1890 at Wild Horse Creek near Fort Steele, BC.	Call Number: 0002.0006 Medium: Photograph Date: Circa 1890