The Farron Explosion
In the early morning hours of October 30, 1924, an explosion shattered a first-class passenger car on the Columbia and Western section of the C.P.R. near Farron, B.C. Farron was the remote summit station for crew changes between Castlegar and Christina Lake. Nine people died in the explosion, and a dozen were injured. Peter...
B.C.'s first registered female trapper
Ella Bronson Frye arrived in Red Deer, Alberta, in 1907. She was one of nine children born to Fred and Edith Frye. In 1911 the Frye's moved to Tete Jaune Cache, B.C., and in 1916 Ella attended school but only for a short time. At age seven, Ella's grandfather Julius Bronson started taking little Ella on wilderness adventures,...
Beasts of Burden & The Morrissey Internment Camp
Morrissey Internment Camp, C.1914-18 The arrival of the First World War brought with it the internment camps. Immigrants, classified as "enemy aliens", typically single and unemployed men of Austro-Hungarian and German descent, were arrested and detained at one of the 24 camps established throughout Canada. One such camp was...
The Weathermen on Old Glory
Old Glory Station c. 1960 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...
Where’s Waldo??
Waldo postal split ring cancel April 19, 1910. Waldo was! 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...
