Memories preserved in the South Country
Memories Panel 2020 - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute and the Triangle Women's Institute. The Memories panel was created by the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and The Triangle Women's Institute as the beginning of a 20 part series of museum quality panels that will grace the Pioneer Hall walls in...
The building blocks of Grasmere
Industries panel 2020 - Image courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute and the Triangle Women's Institute. The Industries panel was created by the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History and The Triangle Women's Institute as the beginning of a 20 part series of museum quality panels that will grace the Pioneer Hall walls...
The mysterious Glass House
The Glass House #2040.0005 - Image courtesy of SD#5 and CBIRH David H. Brown spent 35 years in the funeral business. Brown wondered what he could do with all the embalming fluid bottles? In 1952, he began building a house overlooking Kootenay Lake near Boswell (along Highway 3A); construction materials, the rectangular embalming...
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...
