Source: Fort Steele Heritage Town Archives
The Farrell Block
The Farrell Block on Victoria Street in downtown Moyie, c.1900s
| Internal ID: | 2560.0005 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | June 27th 1905 |
National Historic Sites Fort Steele Momunment
A cairn placed at Fort Steele by National Historic Sites in 1925 commemorating the first Northwest Mounted Police post west of the Rockies. FS # FS 8 428 FS 1973 159 473
| Internal ID: | 2501.0013 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1960 |
Ross-Saskatoon Lumber Company, Waldo
A Baldwin Shay logging locomotive of the Ross-Saskatoon Lumber Company of Waldo, B.C.
| Internal ID: | 2515.0016 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1920 |
Fort Steele, B.C. looking at the Flatiron Building and Star Theatre
Riverside Avenue, Fort Steele with the Flatiron Building, housing the Star Theatre, across the street from the Windsor Hotel, c. 1910.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0020 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1910 |
Fort Steele C.P.R. Station c. 1940
Fort Steele C.P.R. station on the Kootenay Central line with the town Water Tower above and to the right.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0024 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1925 |
'Kootenay' Post Office at WIld Horse Creek, 1883
Dave Griffith and others standing in front of Kootenay Post Office on Wild Horse Creek, 1883
| Internal ID: | 2515.0030 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1883 |
Group Photo In Front of Bunkhouse, Michel, B.C.
Miners and family in front of Crows Nest Pass Coal Co. bunkhouse at Michel, B.C. c. 1908.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0034 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1908 |
St. Mary's Band Members, Ktunaxa Nation
Left to right: Faxapax (Margaret Clement), Martina Ambros, Louise Dominic - all members of the St. Mary's band, Ktunaxa Nation c. 1915
| Internal ID: | 2506.0037 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Fishing Camp Near Fort Steele
A guided fishing camp on The Kootenay River near Fort Steele.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0039 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1925 |
Baillie-Grohman Canal at Canal Flats
Baillie-Grohman Sawmill. Construction of canal lock (1888), Canal Flats, BC
| Internal ID: | 2515.0040 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1888 |
Windsor Hotel, Fort Steele, B.C.
People on the front balcony of the Windsor Hotel in Fort Steele, B.C., c. 1910.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0041 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1910 |
Canal Lock Entrance, Canal Flats
Baillie-Grohman canal (1888), Canal Flats, BC
| Internal ID: | 2515.0041 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1888 |
Baillie-Grohman Canal Construction Overview
Lock under construction, Baillie-Grohman Sawmill, Canal Flats, BC 1887
| Internal ID: | 2515.0042 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1887 |
Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co. Sawmill
The jack ladder feed into Wardner's Crows Nest Pass Lumber Company sawmill,, 1910.
| Internal ID: | 2660.0049 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1910 |
Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co. Sawmill
The Crows Nest Pass Lumber Company sawmill at Wardner. The company sold a large volume of wood to the prairies as that area developed.
| Internal ID: | 2660.0050 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1910 |
Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co.
Swedish lumber pilers at the Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co. sawmill at Waedner, B.C., 1910.
| Internal ID: | 2660.0051 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1010 |
A Lumberton Cat Load, 1928
A B.C. Spruce Mills load of logs being pulled by a Cat - winter logging at Lumberton, 1928
| Internal ID: | 2660.0053 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1928 |
Michel Fishermen on the Elk River
Michel men takijng advantage of the whitefish run in the Elk River.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0055 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1908 |
Building the Kootenay Central Railway
"The First Shot", January 1911, in buikding the right of way for the Kootenay Central Railway,
| Internal ID: | 2595.0065 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1911 |
Michel Fishermen
Fishermen from Michel relaxing at the river's edge c. 1908.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0068 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1908 |
Two Michel Ladies
Two Michel women standing beside one of the bunkhouses c.1908.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0070 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1908 |
Little Jim, Ktunaxa Hunter
Little Jim of the Kootenay Reervation with horse and cougar or mountain lion pelt.
| Internal ID: | 2515.0075 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1920 |
Garage and Mining Offices in Fort Steele c. 1915
Steele Garage to the left on Riverside Avenue, owned and operated by Ernie Attree. To the right in building owned by R.L.T. Galbraith, head office of Champion Gold Mining Co. and office of the Wild Horse Creek Gold Mining Syndicate, c. 1915.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0076 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Imperial Hotel, Fort Steele
Exterior of the Imperial Hotel on Riverside Avenie, Fort Steele.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0078 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1920 |
'Hearts Aflame' Film Crew 1922
Film crw and cast members of Hollywood silent movie 'Hearts Aflame' in front of Imperial Hotel on Riverside Avenue, Fort Steele, 1922
| Internal ID: | 2518.0086 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1922 |
Cable Foot Bridge 1928
A cable foot bridge crossing the Bull River near Iron Creek, 1928. Herbert Neily on bridge. This bridge was used by fishermen and hunters long after the loggers left the area.
| Internal ID: | 2559.0095 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1928 |
Fort Steele Brewing Company, Westport, B.C. c. 1900
Fort Steele Brewing Company built just across the Kootenay River on Brewery Creek at Westport, c. 1900. At this point it is owned by Sick, Williams and Company.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0099 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1900 |
A Bull River Load
"A good average load of logs for the loading crew and the slippery mountain roads." Two horse team hitched to a sloop with a good load of logs with five loggers posed on top, 1915.
| Internal ID: | 2559.0099 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Petroglyphs Near Cranbrook
Petroglyphs (Ktunaxa) near Cranbrook, B.C.
| Internal ID: | 2515.0102 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1950 |
Construction of 2nd Fort Steele Bridge c. 1892
Crew of builders working on the 2nd Fort Steele bridge across the Kootenay River c. 1892.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0107 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1892 |
Kootenay Central Railway Construction c. 1912
Heavy equipment building roadbed and laying track for the Kotenay Central Railway, on the Kootenay River below Fort Steele, c. 1912.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0108 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1912 |
The Mather Ladies of Fort Steele
Formal portrait of Pearl, Hazel and Jane Mather of Fort Steele
| Internal ID: | 2515.0112 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1905 |
Sarah and Hazel Galbraith
Sarah Galbraith with adopted daughter Hazel on a horse.
| Internal ID: | 2515.0113 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1920 |
Lum Kim
Lum Kim leaning on a fence at Fort Steele, B.C.
| Internal ID: | 2552.0116 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
North Star Ore Shed
Storage shed for the North Star mine (Kimberley) on the Kootenay River, 1897. The river boats negotiated the river up this far to take the sacked ore down to Jennings, Montana and then on to U.S. smelters.
| Internal ID: | 2515.0116 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1897 |
River Drive Cook Tent
Man in a cook's arpon and six ladies and a baby on a raft on the Kootenay River c. 1915.
| Internal ID: | 2552.0119 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Wardner Sawmill
The large Crow's Nest Pass Lumber Company sawmill on the Kootenay River at Wardner, B.C.
| Internal ID: | 2552.0122 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1915 |
Camp 6, Wardner, B.C.
Crows Nest Pass Lumber Company's Camp 6 for the sawmilkl at Wardner, B.C. Shows some of the logging teams and their wranglers,
| Internal ID: | 2552.0123 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Burgess Hotel at Old Town, 1903
People gathered for a photo in front of the Burgess Hotel, at Old Town on Perry Creek, 1903.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0133 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1903 |
Bull River Sawmill and Town
An overview of the Bull River sawmil and townsite, 1915.
| Internal ID: | 2559.0135 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Imperial Hotel, Fort Steele 1905
Young man on a buckboard with 2-horse hitch, on Christmas Day 1905 in front of Fort Steele's Imperial Hotel.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0137 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | December 25th 1905 |
N.W.M.P. at Kootenay Post, 1887
Six mounties from D Division, N.W.M.P., in front of barracks at Kootenay Post (later Fort Steele), with dogs, 1887.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0142 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1887 |
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Picnic On Perry Creek, 1902 Well-dressed gathering on Perry Creek in front of the Banks and Thompson mining shaft, 1902.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0144 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1902 |
Water Delivery, Fort Steele
Ella Galbraith and Ban Quan fetching water c. 1914
| Internal ID: | 2515.0148 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
Canal Flats Hotel
Canal Flats Hotel, built in 1895, destroyed by fire in 1917, owned by James Durick before he came to Fort Steele.
| Internal ID: | 2501.0157a |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1900 |
Canal Lock At Canal Flats, B.C.
Canal Locks, (1914), Canal Flats, BC. Pictured are George Hogarth, Fred Binmore, Francis (Drummond) Walsh, and Eanes H. Small
| Internal ID: | 2501.0207 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
Bull River Canyon
Bull River Canyon showing bridge across river.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0231 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1920 |
Bull River Flume
Bull River flume, part of the Bull River sawmill setup., c. 1913
| Internal ID: | 2518.0238 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1913 |
Bull River Flume
Construction of the Bull River flume 1911.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0241 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1911 |
Bull River Flume
Construction crew on the Bull River flume breakinbg for lunch. Mrs. Glendinning cook, at head of the horse, 1910.
| Internal ID: | 2518.0248 |
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| Medium: | Postcard |
| Date: | 1910 |
Bull River Sawmill
Workers taking a break at the Bull River sawmill c. 1912
| Internal ID: | 2518.0249 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1912 |
Brewery Creek Cabin, c. 1905
The first brewery was located in the immediate foreground of this cabib on Brewery Creek
| Internal ID: | 2506.25060085 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1905 |
Red Cross Nurses
Red Cross nursing team at Fort Steele 1914. Charles Mair residence in the background.
| Internal ID: | 2518.CBIRH 2518 0082 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
