The Dynamic Dynelectron
#2215.0635 ca. 1900: Dynelectron Machine Model F - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute What is this puzzling machine, you ask? No, it isn't an old turntable system; this is a Dynelectron Machine. The device is part of the Columbia Basin Institute's F.W. Green Clinic collection, and Dr. Green used it in his practice....
Halcyon Days on the Arrow Lakes
#0131.0073 ca. 1915 Halcyon Hot Springs, B.C. - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute and the Kootenay Gallery of Art, History and Science. First Nations people of the area, the Sinixt, and the Ktunaxa knew of the hot springs' restorative powers before the Europeans explored the Arrow Lakes regions. Captain Robert ...
Argenta Friends School
Argenta was founded in the silver boom in West Kootenay in the 1890s. It was named after the Argenta Mining Company, in which it derived its name from the Latin word for silver, Argentum. The elusive mother lode was never located. #0131.0076 Argenta, B.C. ca. 1965 - Image courtesy of the Kootenay Gallery of Art, History and...
The Coal Creek mining disaster
#0039.0297 ca. 1910: Coal Creek Mines Near Fernie, BC - Image courtesy of Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History Shortly after 7:30 pm on May 22, 1902, an explosion ripped through the No. 2 and No. 3 mines at the Coal Creek mines near Fernie. The ground shook. A cloud of coal dust and flame blew 1,000 meters in the air...
The CPR Swiss Guides
#1901.0050 CPR Swiss Guides - Photos courtesy of Columbia Basin Institute and Golden Museum and Archives After a deadly accident in August 1896 on Mount Lefroy, the American Appalachian Mountain Club hired its first Swiss guide Peter Sarback, in 1897 to work in the Canadian Rockies. He would guide them on the first ascent of...
