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Subject: Moyie

Moyie Basketball Champions

Sam Wormington - right, standing Chiney Hash? This is the C.A.C. championship team for 1905. Does anyone know more about this team?

Internal ID: 0515.0050
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1905

View from the St. Eugene Concentrator

looking north from the St. Eugene Concentrator, with the St. Eugene Mine offices in the foreground.

Internal ID: 0515.0056
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Moyie Football Team

The 1909 Moyie football team. BACK ROW: ?, Teddy Fowler, ?, ?, Herb Jackson, ?, MIDDLE ROW; ?, ?, Matt Marshall, BOTTOM ROW; ?, ?, ?, Bob Marsall, ?

Internal ID: 0515.0058
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1909

Winter Scene at Moyie

Unknown children standing in front of a big pile of snow.

Internal ID: 0515.0063
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Winter Scene at Moyie

Lady and girl standing in snow amongst trees at Moyie.

Internal ID: 0515.0064
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Moyie Overview

View from above of Moyie BC.

Internal ID: 0515.0071
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Unknown Portrait

Hand-coloured photographic portrait, unknown Moyie couple.

Internal ID: 0515.0076
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Moyie Soccer Victory

Back row; F.Torphy, A.McNeil, T.Cook, J.McLaren, F.Perkins, A.Gill, W.Whitehead, B.Agnew; Middle row; W.Pitman, W.Turnbull, S.G.Blaylock, F.Ege, M.Hillery, E.Crowe; Front row; T.Climie, F.Atkinson, A.Wilson, J.Keer. A championship Moyie football team.

Internal ID: 0515.0078
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1905

Moyie Townsite

An overview of Moyie townsite from the west side of Moyie Lake.

Internal ID: 0515.0102
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

10th Ave. School School Fun Day at Moyie Lake kids playing Parachute games

School Fun Day at Moyie Lake kids playing Parachute games

Internal ID: 2000.0008
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1987

10th Ave. School School Fun Day at Moyie Lake boys having fun in the sand

School Fun Day at Moyie Lake. Boys having fun in the sand.

Internal ID: 2000.0009
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1987

10th Ave. School School Fun Day at Moyie Lake kids and parents enjoying watermelon.

School Fun Day at Moyie Lake. Kids and parents enjoying watermelon.

Internal ID: 2000.0010
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1987

10th Ave. School. School Fun Day at Moyie Lake studnets having a three legged races.

School Fun Day at Moyie Lake, students having a three legged races.

Internal ID: 2000.0013
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1987

Moyie, BC c.1899

Town of Moyie, BC over looking the Moyie Lake c.1899

Internal ID: 2255.0066
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1899

Moyie BC c.1896

Town of Moyie, BC c.1896

Internal ID: 2255.0067
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1896

Portal and Log Building - Moyie

Image of the portal and original log building at the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie BC. Image taken in the 1960's.

Internal ID: 0002.0019
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1965

Moyie Railway Station

Moyie Railway Station in 1973. Station was demolished in 1974.

Internal ID: 0204.0053
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1973

McFarlanes

Edith and Charlie McFarlane at Moyie, c. 1952.

Internal ID: 0515.0008
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1952

Patsy Strand

Patsy Strand standing on the right with an unknown girl, in front of an unknown Moyie business.

Internal ID: 0515.0011
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1955

Toths House

Sitting on wooden steps, Toths House about 1950.

Internal ID: 0515.0013
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1950

Residence At Moyie

One of the Moyie residences, about 1965. Anyone know more?

Internal ID: 0515.0018
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1965

Moyie Buidings

Taken 1954, the steeple of St. Peter's Catholic church in the background.

Internal ID: 0515.0019
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1954

'Taken from our veranda'

'Taken from our veranda', Moyie as seen from Florence Lindstrom's house.

Internal ID: 0515.0024
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1935

Downtown Moyie

Businesses on the left and Moyie residences on the right, c. 1920.

Internal ID: 0515.0041
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Moyie Buildings

Unknown woman in front of a Moyie house beside the Catholic church.

Internal ID: 0515.0065
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1930

Moyie Residents

Clive Bateman, Mrs. Rudman, Celia Wills, Stella George, Viola McFarlan, Donald Champion, Bob wills, Raymond Wills, Marjie Wills, Joyce Champion

Internal ID: 0515.0077
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

St. Eugene Mine

Upper townsite at the St. Eugene Mine. March, 1904.

Internal ID: 0515.0090
Medium:Photograph
Date: March 1st 1904

Farrell Block Fire

Moyie fire in Farrell Block resulting in heavy losses to all occupants, some without insurance.

Internal ID: 0052.0159
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 24th 1907

Fire Takes Morley Building

The once prosperous town of Moyie threatened by fire, which destroyed a number of buildings including the Morley building, where many people danced, held church services and saw their first moving picture.

Internal ID: 0053.0077
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 14th 1930

Bishop Blesses Hospital

New Westminsters' Catholic bishop visits and holds services in Cranbrook, Moyie, Fernie and St. Marys Mission before presiding over the blessing of the new hospital in Cranbrook.

Internal ID: 0050.0862
Medium:Newspaper
Date: November 8th 1900

Moyie Fire Hall

The Moyie Fire Hall, c. 1988, with Highway 3 in the foreground.

Internal ID: 0507.0001
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1988

Moyie Fire Hall

A view of the Moyie fire hall with house in the background, taken approx. 1988.

Internal ID: 0507.0002
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1988

Moyie Fire Hall

A good view of the Moyie fire hall building before it was restored, with the sheds around it visible.

Internal ID: 0509.0020
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1950

People at Moyie Townsite

Bud Horne and his sister Kathleen Conrad holding niece Betty Curran, Gerry & Lavaune Conrad. The P. Burns building is visible to the left.

Internal ID: 0510.0001
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Machinery Shipped

Reporting on the readiness of sawmills in Moyie, in preparation of spring breakup.

Internal ID: 0051.0168
Medium:Newspaper
Date: April 11th 1901

Lake View Tourist Camp

Two men sitting on the front porch of one of the cabins built in the 1920's by R.A. Smith.

Internal ID: 0515.0027
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Lake View Tourist Camp

Two men sitting on the front porch of one of the cabins built in the 1920's by R.A. Smith.

Internal ID: 0515.0028
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1920

Sunnyside Ranch in the 1930's

Mr. and Mrs. Algot Johnson at Sunnyside Ranch in the 1930's

Internal ID: 0515.0029
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1935

Early Moyie

A canvas roofed establishment, apparently commercial. Year unknown.

Internal ID: 0515.0053
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Lake View Tourist Camp

Two men sitting on the front porch of one of the buildings of the Lake View Tourist Camp at Moyie, built in the 1920's by R.A. Smith.

Internal ID: 0515.0059
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1930

Moyie City

Moyie Leader noting ongoing building boom and other interesting items going on in Moyie City.

Internal ID: 0050.0217
Medium:Newspaper
Date: April 19th 1898

Moyie Brewery

Moyie Brewery denying report he sold his brewery, and wishes to remind friends and patrons they have bottled beer and porter for sale.

Internal ID: 0051.0855
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 28th 1905

Moyie Brewery

Moyie brewers visit Cranbrook looking for a market for their product.

Internal ID: 0052.0400
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 2nd 1901

Moyie Brewery

Moyie brewery has its first supply of bock beer and said to be second to none.

Internal ID: 0052.0401
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 2nd 1901

Business Survey

Newspaper article with excerpts from Commercial - a journal of commerce, industry and finance published in Winnipeg, items relating to East Kootenay growth.

Internal ID: 0051.0605
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 9th 1897

John McMahon

28-year-old Moyie pioneer dies after brief fight with fever.

Internal ID: 0050.0313
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 20th 1898

Peiper & Currie

Fred Pieper reports on amount of household and business improvements his company will be doing around Cranbrook, as well as in Moyie and Fort Steele.

Internal ID: 0052.0404
Medium:Newspaper
Date: May 9th 1901

Kootenay Hotel, Moyie, BC

The Kootenay Hotel in the town of Moyie.

Internal ID: 0204.0052
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

Moyie from the Lake

Moyie from the lake, with the C.PR. station and Kootenay Hotel prominent in the photograph.

Internal ID: 0509.0019
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Kootenay Hotel, Moyie

Officially opened in May of 1898 the Kootenay Hotel was built and owned by the McMahon brothers.

Internal ID: 0510.0022
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1898

Edith and Charlie

Taken 1955, Edith was a house keeper in the Kootenay Hotel where she met Charlie in 1919. Heather Bryant added: I believe this is Edith Alice Lavinia Hurlburt, who married Charlie McFarlane. She was born in Ontario in 1902, and both her parents died of typhoid in 1806. She and her two sibs were raised by Hurlburt family members, most of whom moved to Alberta.

Internal ID: 0515.0014
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1955

Concert In Moyie, B.C.

Street band in front of the Moyie Hotel c.1910

Internal ID: 2491.0018
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

Isabelle & Joseph Whitehead

Isabelle & Joseph Whitehead, who had a family of nine. Mrs. Whitehead ran a boardinghouse, the Whitehead House, baked and sold bread and was also cook for the mining company above Moyie.

Internal ID: 0509.0002
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1900

Marysville News

General residential and business notes.

Internal ID: 0054.0217
Medium:Newspaper
Date: December 21st 1901

Mrs. Victor Desaulniers

Mrs. Victor Desaulniers, who with her husband owned the Central Hotel in Moyie.

Internal ID: 0509.0010
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Central Hotel

Built in 1898 on the northwest corner of Queens and Victoria streets in Moyie, the Central Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1931. Owned and operated by Victor Desaulniers.

Internal ID: 0509.0017
Medium:Photograph
Date: 0000

Mary & Victor Desaulniers

Mary & Victor with children Victor, Alma, Louis, Emilie, and Wilfred. The house on the left was their home later. Does anyone know the family name? Trish replied: Their family name was Desaulniers. Marie was born Boissineau. They owned the Central Hotel in Moyie until it burned down in (1928). Not sure of the year. But Victor died and is buried in Moyie's cemetery. They ended up having 11 children altogether, of which my grandmother Esthere was the youngest.

Internal ID: 0515.0052
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1910

Central Hotel, Wardner, B.C.

View of the Central Hotel c. 1905. From 'Reflections On the Kootenay': bottom row 4th from left is Charley Martin, policeman; 7th and 8th from right - Ole Johnson and Gus Johnson; 6th from right is Mr. Johnson, father of Ole & Gus; 5th from right is Corey Dow policeman; 4th from right Robert H. Bohart.

Internal ID: 2453.0029
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1905

The Central Hotel, Wardner, B.C.

Closeup of the Central Hotel in Wardner, c. 1905. Built by Messrs. Ripstein and Berkman and situated on Laurier Avenue.. The building is 28 by 74 feet, two stories high, with a large verandah in front.

Internal ID: 2453.0065
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1905

Lakeview Hotel

Standing in front of the Lakeview Hotel at Moyie. WHo is this couple?

Internal ID: 0515.0015
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1950

Miners On the Sidewalk

Miners standing in a row, on a sidewalk in front of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Moyie. The event is unknown.

Internal ID: 0515.0067
Medium:Photograph
Date: 1915

Shananigan's Pub (2005)

Shananigan's Pub (2005) began life as the Cosmopolitan Hotel on Baker Street, in 1898. According to 'A Guide to Cranbrook's History - Walking Tour #1' Nils Hanson built the Cosmopolitan as part of the Hanson Block. "Greer, the contractor, built it as part of the Hanson Block. According to F.J. Smyth, an early newspaper editor in the area, the Cosmopolitan Hotel was opened in the fall of 1898 with E.H. Small and J.E. Musgrave as proprietors." This publication takes the reader through a list of owners, culminating in "Then Max Belkin on January 1, 1955, sold the Cosmopolitan to Tom Hogarth... Most recently part of the original Cosmopolitan building has been operated as a pub known as Shananigan's."

Internal ID: 0031.0009
Medium:Photograph
Date: 2005

The Farrell Block

The Farrell Block on Victoria Street in downtown Moyie, c.1900s

Internal ID: 2560.0005
Medium:Photograph
Date: June 27th 1905

Smyth Interviews Cranbrook Ed

A recount of the interview between Fred Smyth and Cranbrook Ed, the famous elephant.

Internal ID: 0042.0154
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 23rd 1926

Moyie Leader

Moyie paper has passed ownership to its editor.

Internal ID: 0050.0272
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 4th 1898

Cranbrook Notes

Comings and goings of Cranbrook residents and visitors.

Internal ID: 0050.0293
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 11th 1898

Moyie Leader

Moyie Leader editor takes trip to Cranbrook to see how booming the town is, and is impressed with the valley and its progress.

Internal ID: 0050.0308
Medium:Newspaper
Date: August 18th 1898

Smyth Interview

Former editor of Moyie Leader interviews Cranbrook Ed, famous for Cranbrooks' Elephant Stampede.

Internal ID: 0050.0823
Medium:Newspaper
Date: September 23rd 1926

H.M. Wentworth

Mr. Wentworth left for Spokane with a dream of an invitation from the Spokane Press Club.

Internal ID: 0051.0397
Medium:Newspaper
Date: October 4th 1900

Review of Progress

Review of Cranbrook and district's progress during 1911 and outlook for 1912.

Internal ID: 0052.0469
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 4th 1912

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary meeting featured two guests, the first Cranbrooks undertaker and the second a printer.

Internal ID: 0052.0561
Medium:Newspaper
Date: January 14th 1922

Moyie Leader

Moyie newspaper plant moving to Athalmer to commence publication of Columbia Valley Herald.

Internal ID: 0052.0713
Medium:Newspaper
Date: July 20th 1912