Cranbrook Archives: 0434
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
The Fort Steele Water Tower serving as the cover drawing for a series of 8 pen and ink drawings. Each drawing has a small statement on the history of Fort Steele attached. This work was produced for the tourist trade.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0001 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
Pen and Ink Drawing by Ray Mannix of Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police. He established the first North West Mounted Police post in British Columbia weswt of the Rockies. In 1887, with Inspectors S.T. Wood, C.F.A. Huot, Surgeon F.H. Powell and the men of 'D' Division, which totaled 75 officers and men, arrived from Fort McLeod in July to establish their first post west of the Rocky Mountains. The Presence of the first Police Force created a more stable atmosphere in the Kootenays. Superintendent "Sam" Steele with his usual tact and sense of fairness soon had established law and order between the Indians and the whites. Having accomplished its task, returned to Fort McLeod in August, 1888, leaving the small settlement of Galbraith's Ferry, which was soon to be renamed Fort Steele, and still bears his name to this day.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0002 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
The Windsor Hotel at Fort Steele. Built in 1895 by Robert D. Mather-originally called "The Dalgardno House".
| Internal ID: | 0434.0003 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
The Ferry Office at Fort Steele. Part of this log building dates back to the Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush of 1864-66. Built by John Galbraith and used first as the Ferry Office, it later served as Post Office and residence. John Galbraith operated the ferry from 1864 until 1870. Robert Galbraith then took over and operated it until the first bridge was built in 1888.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0004 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
A drawing of the original Fort Steele Water Tower. Built in 1897 near the original site of the 1887 North West Mounted Police post, this water tower became a prominent landmark of Fort Steele. Often mistaken as part of a fortification of the Police Post, it was perhaps a symbol of the optimism of the townspeople of the 1890's.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0005 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
The Express and Stageline Office at Fort Steele Historic Park. This was an original building converted to a display depicting the stage service operating in the 1890s between Fort Steele and Golden and Kalispell, U.S.A.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0006 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
The Perry Creek Water Wheel. This prominent landmark at Fort Steele Historic Park was built on Perry Creek in 1933-34. It was designed to provide cheap power for pumping water from placer mine tunnels at bed rock deep under the channel of Perry Creek, 25 miles west of Fort Steele. The 32-foot diameter Overshot Wheel operated only intermittently over several years.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0007 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
8 Pen and Ink Drawings of Fort Steele
St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Fort Steele. The first church to be built at Fort Steele, it was dedicated on October 31, 1897 by Father Coccola.
| Internal ID: | 0434.0008 |
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| Medium: | Ephemera |
| Date: | 1975 |
