You know Waldo, of course, hiding in the crowd as a comic character, unseen but there. A whole cult of searchers, kids, and adults, have formed around him. But what about the other Waldo (B.C.), also hiding in plain view? Situated on the Kootenay River, just upriver from where the Elk River flows into the…
The Weathermen on Old Glory
Old Glory Mountain is the highest peak in the Rossland range of the Monashees. It has an elevation of 2377 m. or 7798 ft. and is located at 49◦ 9’ North latitude and 117◦ 55’ West in longitude approximately 12 miles NW of Rossland. The weather station was the highest manned station in North America…
Mountaintop women reach new heights
Pioneering women have always enjoyed adventure, with vertical heights being no exception. A group of local women with a lofty goal ascended to the peak of Mt. Evansin the early 1930s – they were not the first local women to brave a climbing expedition. Of their predecessors, the St. Paul Anglican Church Hiking group trekked…
The Life of a Mineral Lake Logger
Young men looking for adventure and career, often found themselves in logging camps as the industry in British Columbia emerged in the late 1890s. The interior was host to numerous camps with men seeking opportunities at sawmills. Once logs were harvested from forests near the millsite, they were transported to a logging pond usually by…
Hiking the High Line
The collection of slides almost ended up in the trash. A member of the board of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History had heard about Bill’s collection of slides and had gone to Bill’s house in June 2013 to inquire about them. Unfortunately, Bill had just recently passed away and neighbours at the request…
Cranbrook’s Wandering War Memorial
Great War Veterans’ Association When Canada entered the Great War in 1914 no substantial government form of support for war veterans existed. There were some private charities such as the Patriotic Fund, and there were the individual fraternal organizations such as the Masons, Foresters, and Odd Fellows. None of these sources were adequate to the…