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...
Conrad Kain: A guide of great spirit
Conrad Kain was born in Nasswald, Austria, on August 10, 1883. Following his father’s death in 1892, things for his family were difficult, and Conrad left school at age 14, finding work as a goat herder and quarryman. He soon developed a love for the mountains and became a guide and a porter. Conrad earned his Fuherbuch...
Mary Stewart's Collect
As Women's Institutes formed across the country in the early 1900s, one such member, Mary Stewart, wrote a prayer called the Collect Club for Women in 1904 to inspire a new generation of women to aspire to greatness as a collective whole. #0119.0103 Group Portrait ca. 1915 - Image courtesy of the Valemount Historical ...
Muriel Lillian Baxter
Muriel Lillian Baxter was an outstanding public figure, serving as a teacher, principal, and elementary school supervisor in Cranbrook for 41 years. Ms. Baxter was born on October 13th, 1902, in Saint Johns, N.B., to Isaac and Idella Baxter. They relocated to Cranbrook in 1903. She was the oldest of five children. Miss. Muriel...
Kimberley, the Leadville of East Kootenay
Mr. Clarricoates Horse Team Transporting Service in Kimberley, B.C. # 0196.0008 ca. 1910 Collection: Kimberley District Heritage Society (0196) An interesting letter was found in the archives at Fort Steele detailing the early adventures of East Kootenay. It was written in September 1899, and posted from Kimberley to ...
