In late 1919 Wardle was appointed to take over supervision of the Banff-Windermere Highway. … While the agreement stipulated that the road be completed in 1924, Wardle himself drove the first automobile over the road in September 1922.
“A brilliant young Canadian named Harry Haffner, who has been responsible for a number of irrigation and power systems, as well as roads in Alberta and BC.”30
The old Lascelles Ranch, turned Grainger property, located to the north of Canal Flats, was later in part developed into Eagles Nest Estates.
It could be that the naming of the mountain and the mine was a serendipitous case of separate parties deciding on the same name for separate features in a similar area.
Even today it is assumed that Sylvester is guilty of Forster’s death. Legally speaking, he is not.
For all that the name Jim Johnston is relatively well known in local historical circles, I was surprised by how little there is recorded about him in print.
“When it is said Frank Stockdale is the most popular young man in this vicinity it is only repeating what many have said during the past week.”25
The Marion didn’t spend much time on the Upper Columbia, but she was one of the most well travelled steamboats in the Kootenays.
The Nowitka … has the distinction of being the last commercial steamboat on the Upper Columbia River.
The Paradise mine captured the local imagination in a way that no other mining property in the valley has quite come close to.
In The Windermere 