The Brilliant Suspension Bridge
The Brilliant Suspension Bridge #0131.0365 ca. 1925 - Image courtesy of Kootenay Gallery of Art & Science and CBIRH Peter Vasilevich "Lordly" Verigin acquired property in the West Kootenay and Boundary region for the Christian Community of University Brotherhood (CCUB) in 1908. The first land purchase was 2000 acres near...
The Star Theatre - a class in its own
The Star Theatre on Norbury Avenue in Cranbrook ca. 1926. At the time of this photo a Buck Jones movie was being advertised. Notice the single story “Max’s Place” to the right. #0019.0039 - Image courtesy of CBIRH Cranbrook's limited theatre work began on the new Star Theatre building in 1921. The Star was located in the...
Government offices on the move
Provincial Government Building c.1910 #0003.0029 - Image courtesy of Columbia Basin Institute When Cranbrook eclipsed Fort Steele as the business and financial centre of East Kootenay, the pressure to relocate the Provincial Government offices to Cranbrook was significant. The result was to move the offices to Cranbrook after...
When I was Small
When I was Small - A look at the life of a depression era family in the East Kootenay from 1925-1935. Copyright Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History When I was Small is a personal look at how one East Kootenay family survived the Great Depression. The Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History published ...
The unsinkable Bessie Lafleur
Mrs. Isabella (Williamson) Lafleur, universally known as "Bessie," immigrated from Saintfield County, Northern Ireland, in 1915, during the height of World War I. She was a determined and positive young woman who, undeterred by torpedoes and death at sea, proceeded to cross the Atlantic and travel to Cranbrook, B.C. Her older...
