Subject: Businesses

Nelson Notes

Due to Nelson insurance companies not lowering their rates, it is proposed to tax them $200 per year.

Internal ID:	0050.0237
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 19th 1898

Buchanan Sawmill

Newspaper

Internal ID:	0054.0132
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 5th 1896

E.W. Widdowson

An ad for a Nelson assayer, giving prices for service.

Internal ID:	0479.0015
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	February 15th 1924

Mining Assays

An ad for a Nelson assayer, performing metallurgical tesys for miners.

Internal ID:	0482.0008
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1924

Nelson Liquor Store

Residents of Nelson protesting against putting the government liquor store in the new Medical Arts building being built.

Internal ID:	0050.0672
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 2nd 1930

T. M. Rixen Advertisement

Newspaper - Professional Cards and Lodge Notices section. Ad copy: T. M. Rixen Auditor and Accountant P.O. Box 373 NELSON, B.C. 47-3m*

Internal ID:	0185.0016
Medium:	Ephemera
Date:	April 26th 1913

Bank of Montreal

Bank of Montreal managers visit Cranbrook to look over sites where a bank branch may be erected.

Internal ID:	0050.0263
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Bank of Commerce

Convention being held in town for heads of Bank of Commerce branches in the Kootenays.

Internal ID:	0051.0291
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 24th 1926

Cranbrook Credit Bureau, establishing a division office

Internal ID:	0042.0135
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 25th 1926

Peck Swears Off

Newspaper excerpt Nelson Daily News - carrying a poem of former staff member of Ymir Mirror with his New Years resolution to swear of booze.

Internal ID:	0052.0365
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 9th 1904

Cranbrook Development

Newspaper excerpt Nelson News - annual review on Cranbrook and district.

Internal ID:	0052.0471
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 11th 1912

Sons Of Freedom Letter

Letter to editor from Sons of Freedom refuting an article saying they are tired of working for the Community, and that they never fought agains governments, police, churches, individuals and never destroyed any schools.

Internal ID:	0053.0125
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 11th 1930

Bonnington Falls Booklet

Page eight of booklet "Number One Hydro-Electric Development, Bonnington Falls, B.C.", listing 'Nelson Daily News" as printer.

Internal ID:	0498.0010
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	June 27th 1925

Ballot Box Theft

Article reporting man found guilty of stealing a ballot box is maintaining his innocence.

Internal ID:	0051.0403
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 18th 1900

Chinese Discrimination

Nelson Economist states now would be a good time to take up the agitation against Chinese in the workplace, but first the agitators must dispense with their Chinese servants.

Internal ID:	0050.0547
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 29th 1905

Nelson Prohibition

Nelson police raided Pitner's cafe when full of dancers and diners, but found no liquor.

Internal ID:	0050.0597
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 13th 1930

Italian Labourer Dies

Newspaper article

Internal ID:	0050.0089
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 19th 1898

Fire Chiefs Meeting And Training Issues

Chiefs from eight cities in the Kootenays and Boundary met at Nelson to discuss forming a provincial organization.

Internal ID:	0050.0582
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 6th 1930

5th Annual Meeting

Nelson News - fifth annual meeting of the Mountain Lumbermen's Association held in Nelson was a success in many ways.

Internal ID:	0050.0942
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 11th 1906

A.E. Watts

Newspaper excerpt Nelson News - reporter interviews A.E. Watts as he announces his intention to abandon lumber business and enter political field.

Internal ID:	0052.0212
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 17th 1907

James Ryan Interview

Newspaper interview with one of the best known men in Cranbrook, a pioneer of the town and for several years proprietor of Cranbrook Hotel.

Internal ID:	0050.0966
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 29th 1905

Council Meeting Report

Cranbrook City Council meeting burns midnight oil with large volume on agenda, including proposal of street lights in Slaterville, new concrete sidewalks, and closing of tourist park, playground and cemetery water facilities for the winter.

Internal ID:	0050.0612
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 20th 1930

Council Report

Cranbrook Brewing company asks for a reduction in rates, citing Nelson and Trail breweries pay half the amount.

Internal ID:	0050.0613
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 20th 1930

First Bonspiel

Preparations moving forward rapidly for the first annual bonspiel of British Columbia Curling Association.

Internal ID:	0052.0127
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 17th 1907

Scott Fruit Company

Newspaper excerpt Nelson Daily News - describes family leaving Nelson to move to Cranbrook to be in charge of work at new bottling plant for fruit company.

Internal ID:	0051.0771
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 6th 1938

Creston Cenotaph

Creston to have war memorial erected in memory of its soldier heroes, with Nelson also taking definite steps in getting their war memorial. Cranbrook seems to be still delinquent in its duty in this respect.

Internal ID:	0052.0309
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 26th 1921

Henry Voisey

Cranbrook painter and decorator, also district agent for Kootenay Marble & Granite Works.

Internal ID:	0052.0844
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 6th 1930

Michel Cenotaph

Town of Michel to have a returned soldiers' war memorial made by Nelson Monumental Works.

Internal ID:	0052.0772
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 16th 1930

Perdue and Burns Ad

Newspaper advertisement

Internal ID:	0054.0184
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 30th 1895

P. Burns Ad

Lists the P. Burns butcher shops in the Kootenays.

Internal ID:	0054.0466
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 29th 1896

Nelson Post Office

Christmas card photo of the Nelson Customs House and Post Office, published by a nelson drugstore.

Internal ID:	0040.0099
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	December 24th 1913

Nelson Post Office

Christmas card photo of the Nelson Customs House and Post Office, published by a nelson drugstore.

Internal ID:	0040.0100
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	December 24th 1913

Cranbrook Rotary

Newspaper excerpt Lethbridge Herald - report Lethbridge Rotarians form Rotary Clubs at Nelson and Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0052.0378
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 24th 1922

Cranbrook Autoists

Local travel notes.

Internal ID:	0042.1462
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 25th 1922

First truck plow in Rossland-Trail, c.1935

First truck plow in district Rossland-Trail. A 1931 two ton Dodge, cyl, 4 speed transmission. Plow fabricated by Stevenson Machine Shop, Nelson. Blade raised and lowered by raising or lowering dump box. Threw to right only. No safety flip or blade. Light mounted on cab later. Greatest hazard, teams hauling cord wood from Castlegar to Trail 1935-37; driver Slim Thomas, Rossland, B.C.

Internal ID:	2318.0093
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1935

White Only

No restaurant or hotel in Nelson employs Chinese help and efforts being made to establish a white laundry.

Internal ID:	0051.0737
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 10th 1892

Charles Smith

Cranbrook laundry employee moving to Nelson to take a position at their Kootenay laundry.

Internal ID:	0052.0153
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 17th 1907

Chinese Laundry

Washing and ironing very good, clothes called for and delivered.

Internal ID:	0051.0863
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 17th 1897

Coal Strike

Coal strike heats up with legal action.

Internal ID:	0054.0286
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 26th 1902

CPR Ry Ad

Focuses on the Soo-Pacific route.

Internal ID:	0054.0480
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 4th 1896

Cranbrook Notes

Comings and goings of residents and visitors in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0050.0248
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Kootenay Coffee Company

Nelson Coffee company doesn't supply groceries or provisions but specialize in teas and coffees.

Internal ID:	0052.0364
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 2nd 1904

V. Hyde Baker

Newspaper excerpt from the Nelson Miner - reporting on another large real estate deal by V. H. Baker.

Internal ID:	0051.0386
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 27th 1900

Nelson Townsite Ad

Newspaper advertisement

Internal ID:	0054.0120
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 15th 1896

Elko Booming

Newspaper advertisement - prices on business and residence lots at what is to be the "New Townsite of East Kootenay", with beautiful scenery and easy access to railway and mining.