https://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/08/04/templeton/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/leg1315.10_thecanadianpacificrockies_vanarchives_1927_cropped.jpgLEG1315.10_TheCanadianPacificRockies_VanArchives_1927_croppedNews of the name change took time to filter into popular use: this 1927 map from the CPR still uses the name "Salmon River". The names of both Frances and Forster creeks, which were included in the same 1915 decision as the announcement of Templeton River, are included on this map with their previous (No 2 and No 3) designations. Arthur O Wheeler for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, "The Canadian Pacific Rockies," (Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1927). In Vancouver Archives, LEG1315.10.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/wtempleton_lot8233_cg3095222_vol222_img720.jpgWTempleton_Lot8233_CG3095:222_Vol222_img720Crown Grant Survey for Lot 8233 [cropped], for William A Templeton. British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 222 (no 3020/0222-3109/0222), 1908, img 720 of 831.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/reportsoftheministeroflandsye31dec1914_pd180-copy.jpgReportsoftheMinisterofLandsYE31Dec1914_pD180 copyBritish Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Report of the Minister of Lands for the Province of British Columbia for the Year Ending 31st December 1913 (Victoria: Government Printer, 1914), p D 180.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/reportministeroflandsyearending31dec1912_pd193.jpgReportMinisterofLandsYearEnding31Dec1912_pD193Salmon River labelled on a 1912 map of the area. British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Report of the Minister of Lands for the Province of British Columbia for the Year Ending 31st December 1912 (Victoria: Government Printer, 1913), p D 193.2026-03-02T20:21:20+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/07/01/jumbo/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/harris_bchistoricalnews_sp1980_p20_2.jpgHarris_BCHistoricalNews_Sp1980_p20_2Detail of Jumbo Pass, showing sections of the 1890s trail remaining in 1980. Harris, "Old Routes and Trails," BC Historical News (Spring 1980), p 20.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/harris_bchistoricalnews_sp1980p20_1.jpgHarris_BCHistoricalNews_Sp1980,p20_1Jumbo Pass Area: The Shuswap trail went over the ridge between Glacier and Hamill Creeks. Harris, "Old Routes and Trails," BC Historical News (Spring 1980), p 20.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/jumboclaim-copy.jpgJumboClaim copyThe original Crown Granted Jumbo Claim: the rectangular section in the middle of a bunch of regular squares. Figure 1: Mineral King Mine Property Claim Map. IN George R Dix, Geological Report of the Toby and Jumbo Grids, 21 August 1991.2026-03-02T20:19:49+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2025/12/15/in-the-windermere-has-moved/2025-12-16T00:58:48+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/03/17/paradise-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/annualreportmines_yearending1903_paradise_ph104.jpgAnnualReportMines_YearEnding1903_Paradise_pH104Looking down the Paradise Basin, 1903. The road up to the upper workings of the Paradise group, and tailings from two of the tunnels, can be seen on the hill in the middle/left. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1903, p H104.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/sketchmapshowingpositionofshamrockgroupparadisesilverbelt_mf082kse029_pf004180-1.jpgSketchMapShowingPositionofShamrockGroupParadiseSilverbelt_MF082KSE029_PF004180Map showing the location of the Paradise Group as well as the Shamrock and Silver Belt groups (undated). Although the Paradise became the most famous group in the basin, there was also investment and development in these other groups. Sketch Map Showing Positions of Shamrock Group, Paradise, Silver Belt. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File PF004180.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nicholson_sandcarbonates_miningrecordoct1901_p321_underground.jpgNicholson_SandCarbonates_MiningRecordOct1901_p321_UndergroundThe soft, sandy ore of the Paradise Mine made extensive timbering necessary to prevent collapse. Charles F. Nicholson, "The So-Called "Sand Carbonates" at the Paradise Mine, Windermere District," The Mining Record Vol 8, No 10 (October 1901), p 321.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nicholson_sandcarbonates_miningrecordoct1901_p321_no4tunnel.jpgNicholson_SandCarbonates_MiningRecordOct1901_p321_No4TunnelThe entrance to No 4 Tunnel, 1901. Charles F. Nicholson, "The So-Called "Sand Carbonates" at the Paradise Mine, Windermere District," The Mining Record Vol 8, No 10 (October 1901), p 321.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nicholson_sandcarbonates_miningrecordoct1901_p320_bruce.jpgNicholson_SandCarbonates_MiningRecordOct1901_p320_BruceRobert Randolph Bruce, mine manager. Charles F. Nicholson, "The So-Called "Sand Carbonates" at the Paradise Mine, Windermere District," The Mining Record Vol 8, No 10 (October 1901), p 320.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nicholson_sandcarbonates_miningrecordoct1901_p319-copy.jpgNicholson_SandCarbonates_MiningRecordOct1901_p319 copyThe Paradise Mine camp, 1901. Charles F. Nicholson, "The So-Called "Sand Carbonates" at the Paradise Mine, Windermere District," The Mining Record Vol 8, No 10 (October 1901), p 319.2023-11-14T03:47:02+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/08/02/trethewey/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_7189.jpgIMG_7189Entrance sign to Trethewey Beach. In the collection of the Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.2024-05-11T13:41:25+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/06/21/wardle/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20221019090532mt._wardle.jpgMount Wardle is a prominent feature on the easterly drive through Kootenay National Park. Terry Ott, "Dramatic look up at Mt Wardle [right]... and Mt Verendrye [left] in Kootenay National Park," 26 September 2022, CC <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2.0 Creative Commons</a>, https://www.flickr.com/photos/terryott/52418596747/. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pc007547.jpgPC007547The newly completed Banff-Windermere Highway was designed as a scenic route through the trees. Byron Harmon, "648. Banff Windermere Highway," [before 1942], Peel Prairie Postcards, http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/postcards/PC007547.htmlhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a888.jpga888"Automobile on Banff-Windermere Highway in Redstreak Canyon," c.1923, A888, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/e011313918.jpge011313918This view in may look vaguely familiar: the current tunnel would be just around the corner going down into Radium. The amount of work done up to Sinclair Pass is easy to forget given how straight-forward the route is over 100years later! "Rock Cut-Sta. 140, Looking West," 15 May 1920, Accession No 1979-195 NPC, Box 14, page 53, Library and Archives Canada, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=5723668&lang=enghttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/e011313940.jpge011313940A work crew on the Banff-Windermere Highway. From other photos, it's likely that the shovels were for digging holes for dynamite to then be used to blast loose the right of way. "Sinclair Section - Sta. 145 (approx)," October 1919, e011313940, Library and Archives Canada, http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=5722196&lang=enghttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a703.jpga703A collection of important guests at the opening of the Banff Windermere Highway - I'm fairly certain that's J.M. Wardle forth from the right. "Platform guests at Banff-Windermere Highway opening, Kootenay National Park," 1923, A703, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a701.jpga701"Automobiles parked for opening ceremony for the Banff-Windermere Highway at Kootenay Crossing," 1923, A701, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a889.jpga889"Road construction crew with horse teams working on Banff-Windermere Highway," 1921, A889, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a282.jpga282"Crew building Banff-Windermere, Kootenay National Park," 1920, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A282.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/d-01645_141.jpgd-01645_141"St. John's Church, Yale," c.1893, Item D-01645, BC Archives, https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/st-johns-church-yale-4.2023-06-25T01:28:15+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/06/07/haffner/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1912advertisement.png1912Advertisement1912 Advertisement for Haffner & Wurtele. Henderson's Greater Vancouver New Westminster and Fraser Valley directory 1912, Vol. 14 (Vancouver : Henderson Publishing Company, Ltd., 1912), p 222, https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0366242https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/vpl14304.jpgVPL14304Harry Haffner's road through Sinclair Canyon. "Man standing on road in East Kootenay mountains," n.d., Krebs studio, Accession No 14304, Vancouver Public Library.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a786.jpga786Construction work putting a road through Sinclair Canyon, 1912. Note the people and ladders up on the cliff! Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A786.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a737.jpga737Survey work on the Banff-Windermere Highway, 1911. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A737,https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/a492.jpga492Harry Haffner (in the middle, leaning against the tent) at a survey camp in Dutch Creek in September 1907. Oswald A. McGuinness, "Survey Camp on Dutch Creek, Columbia Valley, September 10, 1907." Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A492.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/haffner_dailycolonist_1916-06-10.pngHaffner_DailyColonist_1916-06-10A very poor quality photo of Lieut Harry Haffner. “Local Officer is Killed in Action,” The Daily Colonist (Victoria B.C.), 10 June 1916, p 5, https://archive.org/embed/dailycolonist58y156uvic https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/haffnerwill_1916.jpgHaffnerWill_1916[Will of H.J. Haffner, 30 March 1916], Henry John Alexander Haffner estate, No 8921, Estate files (no 8921-9095), years 1916-1917, Provincial Archives, Winnipeg. FamilySearch Database, Canada, Manitoba Probate Records, 1871-1930, img 21 of 2955.; ‘In the Matter of the Estate of Henry John Alexander Haffner Deceased,’ The Vancouver Daily Province, 10 March 1917, p 27, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G1YD-RKK?cc=1987562&wc=M69Z-BWL%3A265412501%2C265412002%2C2660726012023-06-09T21:57:24+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/05/31/wolfenden/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/c688.jpgc688Archie and Stanley Wolfenden on their homestead, 1910. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives C688.2026-01-18T11:21:33+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/05/10/coy/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/c1250-1.jpgc1250Bud Coy, 1942, entering into the Royal Canadian Air Force. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1250.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/a1108.jpga1108Mrs and Dr Coy, 1976. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1108.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/c1249.jpgc1249Filmer Engers Coy as part of the Medical Services Corps in the Second World War. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1249.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/filmerecoy_medicine1914_oldmcgill_p117.pngFilmerECoy_Medicine1914_OldMcGill_p117Filmer Engers Coy at graduation from Medical school. “Medicine 1914,” Old McGill, Volume 17 [1914 Yearbook], p 117, https://yearbooks.mcgill.ca/viewbook.php?&campus=downtown&book_id=1914#page/119/mode/1up 2023-05-24T03:28:58+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/03/04/canal-flats-akamukul/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a1086.jpga1086The remains of the lock at Canal Flats. Windermere Valley Museum A1086https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/canal_construction_at_canal_flats_august_1888.jpgCanal_construction_at_Canal_Flats_August_1888Canal construction, August 1888https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/canal_construction_at_canal_flats_chinese_work_crew_1887.jpgCanal_construction_at_Canal_Flats,_Chinese_work_crew_1887Canal construction, 1887https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/canal-flat_p182.jpgCanal FlatAcross Canal Flat – the camp on the Kootenay2023-05-16T01:50:20+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/04/26/de-crespigny/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/i-08336_141.jpgi-08336_141The former de Crespigny Ranch, at this time owned by Barbour, on the "island" in the Columbia Valley wetlands. "Columbia River Valley Near Radium," 1974, Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, i-08336, BC Archives, https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/columbia-river-valley-near-radiumhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/decrespignycrest_debrettspeerage_1921.pngDeCrespignyCrest_DebrettsPeerage_1921The De Crespigny family crest Debrett's baronetage, knightage, and companionage (London: Dean & Son Ltd, 1921), p 212, https://archive.org/embed/debrettsbaroneta00unsehttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/grant_essexhistoricalbiographicalandpictorial_n.d._np.pngGrant_EssexHistoricalBiographicalAndPictorial_n.d._np"Champion Lodge: The Hall showing trophies shot by Sir Claude de Crespigny and his sons." John Grant, ed., Essex: Historical, Biographical and Pictorial (London: London and Provincial Publishing Co, n.d.), np, https://archive.org/embed/essexhistoricalb00granhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/captain_vierville_champion_de_crespigny.jpgBritish (English) School; Captain Vierville Champion de Crespigny (1882-1927)Captain Vierville Champion de Crespigny (1882-1927), c. 1915. Accn Number P086, Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire, England http://www.artuk.org/artworks/captain-vierville-champion-de-crespigny-18821927-491052024-10-30T00:35:54+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/04/12/tunnacliffe/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/c1886.jpgc1886M.E. Tunnacliffe, Chairman 1966-68, Mayor 1968-70. Windermere Valley Museum, C1886.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/c716.jpgc716Minnie and Edgar Tunnacliffe's wedding photograph in 1913, taken by the Stalley Studio in Jamestown, North Dakota. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C716.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/a117-1.jpga117A group of teepees on what later became Tunnacliffe Flats, in Invermere. If you look at the photo above, the single house on the hill is the building to the far left in this photo. This very likely became the Tunnacliffe house. "Invermere townsite with teepees gathered for opening of the Banff-Windermere motor highway," A117, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives (Invermere BC).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/na-40197_141.jpgna-40197_141Downtown Invermere [191-]. Tunnacliffe Flats is the hill in the background with the single house to the left. To help orient yourself, the building with the tower on the right was the livery stable, now Ulr Bar. The building in the centre of the photo is the former Thredz store (now Panorama Mountain Centre), while immediately to the left is now Village Arts. "Invermere," [191-], NA-40197, BC Archives (Victoria B.C.).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/img_7735-2.jpgIMG_7735 2The rough boundaries of Tunnacliffe Flats: Blocks L and S on the CVIF town plan. Grand Drive at the top of this map is now 10th Ave, that's the railway and the edge of the lake at the bottom. O.A. McGuinness, Plan of Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Limited. Invermere B.C. Lake Division Irrigation, Storage Reservoir and Domestic Water Systems, 15 December 1933. Map Collection, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Invermere B.C. [cropped]2023-04-25T02:11:40+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/03/29/memoir-my-story-the-brisco-years/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/columbia-valley-brisco.jpgcolumbia-valley-briscoThe "Cover Page" for Ted Watkins' My Story The Brisco Years2023-03-29T13:25:51+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/03/15/memoirs-oral-histories/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/a164.jpga164Martin Morigeau (right) with unidentified man, 1950s. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A164.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/a173.jpga173Mrs Shelagh Dehart (née Kinbasket), 1930. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1732023-03-16T19:59:09+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/03/01/books-letters-from-windermere/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/lettersfromwindermere_harrisandphillips.jpgLettersFromWindermere_HarrisAndPhillipsR. Cole Harris and Elizabeth Phillips, eds., Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984), http://archive.org/details/lettersfromwinde0000phil2023-03-16T19:58:47+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/02/15/pamphlets-boosterism/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/columbiavalleyorchards.jpgColumbiaValleyOrchardsColumbia Valley Orchards Ltd. : apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd, c1912), https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0379569https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/windermerebc.jpgWindermereBCCanadian Pacific Railway Company Ltd, Windermere, British Columbia (London: Canadian Pacific Land Department), https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0354861https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/fruitlandsinwindermere1911.jpgFruitLandsInWindermere1911Fruit lands in the beautiful Windermere Valley of the Columbia River, B.C, Wilmer: Columia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Ltd, 1911, https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0379578https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/athalmervaleofcashmere.jpgAthalmerValeOfCashmereAthalmer, "the vale of Cashmere" of British Columbia : the hub of the Columbia Valley, Windermere District (Columbia Valley Supply Company Limited, c1911), https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.03795752023-03-16T19:58:21+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/02/01/books-impressions-of-a-tenderfoot/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/impressionsofatenderfoot_stmaur.jpgImpressionsOfATenderfoot_StMaurSusan Margaret (McKinnon) Saint Maur Somerset Duchess of, Impressions of a Tenderfoot during a Journey in Search of Sport in the Far West (London: John Murray, 1890), https://archive.org/embed/impressionsoften00some2023-03-16T19:57:23+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/01/18/pamphlets-banff-windermere-highway/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/banffwindermerehighway.jpgBanffWindermereHighwayThe Banff-Windermere Highway (Department of the Interior, National Parks Branch) [tourist brochure], https://archive.org/embed/P0108982023-03-16T19:56:49+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2023/01/04/books-b-c-1887/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/bc1887_leesandclutterbuck_title.jpgBC1887_LeesAndClutterbuck_TitleThe title page for B.C. 1887: follow the link to read the full book: https://archive.org/embed/bc1887rambleinbr00leesuoft2023-03-16T19:56:11+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/12/30/radium-hot-springs-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c91.jpgc91"Hot Radium Springs, Firlands B.C.", undated. The buildings on the hill above the hot springs. Note also the rough road passing between them. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c91.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a229.jpga229Construction of the concrete swimming pool, 1915. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A229.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/thebritishcolumbiamagazinev8n3march1912_p192_sinclairsprings.jpgTheBritishColumbiaMagazineV8N3(March1912)_p192_SinclairSpringsSinclair Hot Springs shortly before the road was put through. The British Columbia Magazine Vol 8 No3 (March1912), p192.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a245.jpga245The cement pool was much larger than the earlier, hand-dug pools. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a245.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a194.jpga194The cement swimming pool and bath house built c.1914. Note the smaller, round pool in the background. Sinclair Creek was noticeably diverted to make room for this addition. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a194. Undated.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a240.jpga240The hot springs as it likely appeared to visitors in 1905. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A240.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/reportmines1898_sinclairhotsprings.jpgReportMines1898_SinclairHotSpringsThe cedar log cabin alongside the hot springs and Sinclair Creek. British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31 December 1898 (Victoria: Government Printer, 1899), p 1058.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c65.jpgc65An early camp at Sinclair Hot Springs, early 1890s. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C65.2023-02-02T23:33:49+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/12/07/pynelogs/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_7734.jpgIMG_7734Map of Invermere, c.1925 [cropped], showing Bruce's land around Dorothy Lake (labelled R.R.B.). Other, much smaller lots in the bay are labelled J. Taynton, and A.V. Scovil "A" and "B". Plan of Invermere Townsite and Heights… East Kootenay BC, Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Limited, Invermere B.C. [signed O.A. McGuinness, Supt, Aug 1925], Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Invermere B.C.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c797.jpgc797Pynelogs with the steamship Dorothy M docked in the bay. That is the Taynton's house in the lower right. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C797.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c2140.jpgc2140The lakeshore in front of Pynelogs was once very limited: Pynelogs grounds extended almost all the way to the shoreline. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C2140.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a20.jpga20Pynelogs Rest Home: the sign on the right reads: Notice Entering Pynelogs Rest Home Grounds. Not a Public Beach. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A20.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c114.jpgc114The May Queen procession at the opening ceremonies at the Lady Elizabeth Bruce Memorial Hospital, May 1937. Audrey Cleland (later Osterloh) is yet to receive her crown. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C114.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c1559.jpgc1559The gardens at Pynelogs stretched all the way down nearly to the lake boundary. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1559.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c1557.jpgc1557The carefully landscaped exterior of Pynelogs. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1557.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/c1572.jpgc1572Robert Randolph Bruce at Pynelogs. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1572.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a1362.jpga1362The grave marker of Lady Elizabeth Bruce, on the shores of Lake Windermere. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1362.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a546.jpga546Lady Elizabeth Bruce. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A546.2024-01-12T04:44:25+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/09/28/salter/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a806.jpga806A log flume on the mountainside – we don't have records of where this flume was actually located, so consider this a representative example. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A806.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a1225.jpga1225A "boom' of logs is pulled down the lake via steamboat, to be released into the Columbia River to float down to Golden. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1225.2022-11-12T09:03:17+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/08/17/nixon/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/c134.jpgc134Walter Nixon and Madeline Turnor guiding a packhorse group through on the not yet open Banff-Windermere Highway. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C134.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/c238.jpgc238Walter Nixon securing a rope on a pack horse. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C238.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a349.jpga349Walter Nixon, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A349.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/c192.jpgc192An advertisement for W.J. Nixon and Sons – the family outfitting company. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C192.2022-11-12T08:46:24+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/10/26/holland/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a664.jpga664A group of men brought over from England to work on the Holland Ranch at Fairmont, 1912: Dapper Ede, John Woodcroft, __ Onsworth, Ernie Denier, Henry Hunt, Sid Phillips, Harry Bone, Charlie Onion, Teddy Keeling, Sid Brown. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A664.2022-10-24T21:38:10+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/index/2022-10-07T09:52:18+00:00weekly0.6https://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/06/30/giant-mine-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/mapofgoldengiantmineswithzincleadsilverconcentrates_pf003747.jpgMapofGoldenGiantMineswithZincLeadSilverConcentrates_PF003747Map of Golden Giant Mines with Zinc Lead Silver Concentrates, British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File: PF003747.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/annualreportmines_1927_giantmine_p262.jpgAnnualReportMines_1927_GiantMine_p262British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1927 (Victoria, B.C.: Charles F Banfield, Government Printer, 1928), p 262.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/annualreportmines_1926_giantmine_pa240.jpgAnnualReportMines_1926_GiantMine_pA240British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1926 (Victoria, B.C.: Charles F Banfield, Government Printer, 1927), A240.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/annualreportmines_1926_giantmine_pa240-copy.jpgAnnualReportMines_1926_GiantMine_pA240 copyBritish Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1926 (Victoria, B.C.: Charles F Banfield, Government Printer, 1927), A240.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/claimmapofthegiantgroup_pf003748.jpgClaimMapoftheGiantGroup_PF003748Claim Map of the Giant Group (cropped), undated.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/annualreportmines_1909_giantmine_pk98.jpgAnnualReportMines_1909_GiantMine_pK98British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1909… (Victoria: Richard Wolfenden, Government Printer, 1910), p K 98 https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/peter_r_jenkins_thesis_p108.jpgPeter_R_Jenkins_thesis_p108Peter R Jenkins, "Fig 18: General Arrangement of the Elmore Vacuum Plant," in "The Origin and Development of the Flotation Process, 1860-1920 : The Inventive Elmore Family and their Legacy," Doctoral Thesis, University of Bath (1985), p 108.2022-09-29T22:52:36+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/06/23/giant-mine-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/giantcrowngrant_no18684_vol84_year1897_80.jpgGiantCrownGrant_No186:84_Vol84_Year1897_80British Columbia, Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria. Crown Grant No 186/84, Lot 1109: Giant, British Columbia Land Grants, Vol 84 (no 0178/0084-0270/0084), 1897, FamilySearch Database: img 80 of 927. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/rothschildcrowngrant_no4347_vol47_year1889-1893_60.jpgRothschildCrownGrant_No43:47_Vol47_Year1889-1893_60British Columbia, Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria. Crown Grant No 43/47, Lot 136: Rothschild (Stephen Redgrave), British Columbia Land Grants, Vol 47 (no 0040/0047-0130/0047), 1889-1893, FamilySearch Database: img 60 of 1051.2022-09-29T22:51:55+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/04/22/hammond/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mining1915_hammond.jpgMining1915_HammondMount Hammond Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1915, p K 882022-09-26T23:59:39+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/11/09/gibbon/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ownyourownhome.jpgOwnYourOwnHomeThis c.1920 propaganda poster from the CPR was produced under J.M. Gibbon's leadership.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/transcanadalimited.jpgTransCanadaLimitedA 1925 CPR poster encouraging travel to the Canadian Rockies. Library and Archives Canada Acc. No. 1990-106-7https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/royal_york_1929.jpgRoyal_York_1929The CPR's Royal York hotel in Toronto appears as the height of luxury in this 1929 poster.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/canadianpacificspanstheworldempressofscotland.jpegCanadianPacificSpansTheWorldEmpressofScotlandThe phrase "Canadian Pacific Spans the World" became central to CPR advertising, while posters of a similar style to this were used up until 1930. c.1923 lithograph poster from Bernard Gribble, Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd (London).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/a1271.jpga1271The model farm of Cydervale, in later years. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1271.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/holidays-in-canada.jpgHolidays in CanadaMany of the advertising posters produced by the CPR under J.M. Gibbon's management, have become iconic. Fancy a visit to Lake Louise? A friendly Mountie just might pass by on his horse. Kenneth Shoesmith, lithograph S.C. Allen and Co. London, c.1930.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cydervale_windermerebc_fruitlandscop20.jpgCydervale_WindermereBC_FruitLandsCo,p20An artist's rendition of Cyder Vale [sic] in a promotional pamphlet, c1912. Canadian Pacific Railway Company Ltd, Windermere, B.C. (London: Canadian Pacific Land Department).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cvif_map_1910-copy.jpgCVIF_Map_1910 copyA 1910 map of the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands properties, with the Gibbon ranch (Cydervale) marked. The black line marking the bottom is Toby Creek. Map adapted from the Provincial Archives of BC, with this version found in Cole Harris and Elizabeth Phillips, eds., Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984) https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1909.jpg1909This 1909 propaganda pamphlet "The Last Best West" was circulated for several years, and includes visual elements of warm coloured maple leaves, and a bountiful harvest. National Archives of Canada C-30620, http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/advertis/ads3-08e.shtmlhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/a1208.jpga1208John Murray Gibbon (right) along with local Robert Randolph Bruce, and Canadian poet Bliss Carmen. Carmen lived most of his life in the US, but with encouragement and support from Gibbon, was increasingly recognized and supported in his native country. This photo was likely taken around the time of the opening of the David Thompson Memorial Fort in summer 1922, which Carmen attended. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1208.2022-09-22T00:57:06+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/11/23/peters-hill/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/a1278.jpga1278Gathering at the Peters home. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1278.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/a1268.jpga1268Joe Peters on milk delivery run. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives A 1268.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/c325.jpgc325Milk cows on the dairy farm operated by the Peters family. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C325.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/c328.jpgc328A hay harvest with the model farmhouse in background. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C328.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/a1274.jpga1274Fruit trees (to the right) on Cydervale Farm overlooking the Columbia River. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1274.2022-11-23T17:51:52+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/10/12/white/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_4008.jpgIMG_4008White's Dam on SRL – K2 land. Photo: 2022.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/a807.jpga807An unidentified dam with a log flume. To be clear, this is not Whites Dam, but it is a representative example of how these logging operations worked. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A807. 2022-10-17T09:10:41+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/09/14/fort-point-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/lakedistrictofbc_p13.jpgLakeDistrictofBC_p[13]Advertisement for the Lake Windermere Ranch Camp held at the fomer bungalow camp, 1930. Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Lake District of British Columbia (1930), p 13, https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0229379https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cpr-lodge_doi.jpgcpr-lodge_DOIThe "CPR Lodge" at its new location, where it is used for private events and community gatherings. District of Invermere, https://invermere.net/community/parks/cpr-lodge/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_7934.jpgIMG_7934By June 2017, the interior of the Fort tower had become generously decorated.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_7939-2.jpgIMG_7939 (2)The last of the David Thompson Memorial Fort towers, Juny 2017.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/i-21500_141_bcarchives.jpgi-21500_141_BCArchivesThe location of the fort before it was torn down, 1968. British Columbia. Ministry of the Provincial Secretary and Travel Industry. Film and Photographic Branch, “Invermere,” 1968, Item I-21500, BC Archives (Victoria B.C.), https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/invermere-13https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a153.jpga153As maintenance on the fort lapsed, these posts were added to the east wall for support. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A153.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_7728.jpgIMG_7728Fort/Canterbury Point is on the right, and Invermere Golf Course is labeled on the left in this 1933 map. O.A. McGuinness, Plant of Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Limited. Invermere B.C. Lake Division Irrigation, Storage Reservoir and Domestic Water Systems, 15 December 1933. Map Collection, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Invermere B.C.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a219.jpga219One of the blockhouse towers, at original location along the fort palisade. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A219.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a1318.jpga1318The Memorial Fort in its dilapidated days. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1318.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/a152.jpga152Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A152.2022-09-18T21:35:30+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/08/31/fort-point-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/galaweekdavidthompsonfort_aug1922.pngGalaWeekDavidThompsonFort_Aug1922Promotional poster for the opening of the David Thompson Memorial Fort, 1922. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/lakewindermerebungalowcamp.jpgLakeWindermereBungalowCampA 1924 brochure issued by the CPR for the Lake Windermere Bungalow Camp. Follow the link to view the pamphlet in full.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a2000.jpga2000Zooming in somewhat, showing the palisade, towers, and the entry gate to the fort. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A2000.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/na-40196_141_bcarchives.jpgna-40196_141_BCArchivesCanterbury Point, April 1914 – that sign on the left says "Canterbury", even though by this time the townsite had been renamed "Invermere" for about four years. “Looking east from the western limit of the Invermere townsite; note the sign on the right that says, “Canterbury”, the former name of Invermere,” April 1914, Item NA-40196, BC Archives (Victoria B.C.), https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/looking-east-from-western-limit-of-invermere-townsite-note-sign-on-right-that-says-canterbury-former-name-of-invermerehttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a1160.jpga1160Detail of the fort. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1160.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7734-e1659922890802.jpgIMG_7734Map of Invermere, c.1925 [cropped], showing the location of the fort and Lake Windermere Camp/bungalows. Plan of Invermere Townsite and Heights… East Kootenay BC, Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Limited, Invermere B.C. [signed O.A. McGuinness, Supt, Aug 1925], Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Invermere B.C.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/c1386.jpgc1386The newly completed David Thompson Memorial Fort, August 30, 1922. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1386.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/a369.jpga369Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A369.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/na-42192_141_bcarchives_lakewindermerecamp.jpgna-42192_141_BCArchives_LakeWindermereCamp“Lake Windermere Camp,” [192-], Item NA-42192, BC Archives (Victoria B.C.), https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/lake-windermere-camphttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/c1423.jpgc1423Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1423.2022-08-12T05:44:30+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/08/03/bott/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/lot2563_cgno2501101_img98.jpgLot2563_CGNo2501:101_img98Sketch Map, c. 1887, Crown Grant No 2501/101 (Lot 2563, 11 May 1899, William George Bott), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 101 (no 2488/0101-2589/0101), 1898-1902, FamiliySearch database img 94 to 99 of 826.2022-08-13T21:04:37+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/07/20/cobb/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/c1808.jpgc1808A snowy winter at the Cobb cabin. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1808.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/c1473.jpgc1473The Cobb family, building a new log house in Brisco, 1922. L-R Nora Cobb, Martha Cobb, Margaret Cobb, Jack Lundy, Ernest Cobb. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1473.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/c1810.jpgc1810Len Cobb, on the winter trap line at White Swan. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1810.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/c1809.jpgc1809Josephine Cobb with marten pelts, up near White Swan Lake. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1809.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/fortyyearreunionoftheww1veteransatcanadianlegion_1954_vernonmuseumandarchives_494.pngFortyYearReunionoftheWW1VeteransAtCanadianLegion_1954_VernonMuseumAndArchives_494E.R. Cobb at a reunion of First World War Veterans, 1954. "Forty Year Reunion of the WW1 Veterans At Canadian Legion, 1954. Greater Vernon Museum and Archives, 494.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cc-cobb-ernie-with-wife-martha-c701.jpgc701Pat and Ernie Cobb, unknown date. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C701https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/lot10546_cg631424_cobb_img297.jpgLot10546_CG631:424_Cobb_img297Sketch map of Ernest Cobb's land pre-emption, 1906. Crown Grant No 631/424 (Ernest Cobb, 13 August 1919), British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 424 (no 0601/0424-0702/0424), 1919. FamilySearch database, img 297 of 1002. [cropped]2022-07-22T03:42:22+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/07/06/houlgrave/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/f-09_houlgravee.m.jpgF-09_Houlgrave,E.MThe Houlgrave family plot (F-09) at the Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cvi_map_l171-copy.pngCVI_Map_L171 copyHoulgrave's Ranch, Lot 171, highlighted on a map of the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands property. Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands, Division "B" (Wilmer B.C., December 1910). IN R. Cole Harris and Elizabeth Phillips, eds., Letters from Windermere 1912-1914 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984). https://archive.org/embed/lettersfromwinde0000philhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cc-houlgrave-gerald-top-left-with-hat-a254-copy.jpga254Gerald Houlgrave, up on the Toby Benches. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A254 (cropped).2023-05-16T00:59:17+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/06/22/grainger/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/g-19_graingerb.2.jpgG-19_Grainger,B.2Grave marker for Brett Grainger, Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/g-19_graingerh.jpgG-19_Grainger,HGrave marker for Hardwick Grainger, at the Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/unknown_grainger_boys.jpgUnknown_Grainger_Boys"The Grainger Boys". It's unclear which Grainger boys these are. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives (Invermere B.C.)2023-06-25T19:44:16+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/06/08/ogilvy-wills/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/vegrevilleobserver_30july1915_p5_cu11396477.pngVegrevilleObserver_30July1915_p5_CU11396477[Advertisement], Vegreville Observer, 30 July 1913, p 5. [Unique Identifier CU11396477, img 1485, "Vegreville Observer 1910-01-05 – 1913-11-26," Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/ ]https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ogilvywills2_boxkk_wvm.jpgOgilvyWills2_BoxKK_WVMJeanette and James Robert Ogilvy-Wills at The Meadows. Box KK (Ogilvy Wills), File: Photographic, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ogilvywills1_boxkk_wvm.jpgOgilvyWills1_BoxKK_WVMSiblings Jeanette and James Robert Ogilvy-Wills. Box KK (Ogilvy Wills), File: Photographic, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/a1077.jpga1077The Meadows, where the Ogilvy-Wills family settled. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A10772022-06-07T22:36:57+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/05/25/hawke/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/reportontveterinarycollege1909_sessionalpapersvol42_p13.jpgReportOntVeterinaryCollege1909_SessionalPapersVol42_p13First Year Students at the Ontario Veterinary College. Ontario Department of Agriculture, “Ontario Veterinary College,” The Report of the Ontario Veterinary College, Sessional Paper No 33, 1909 (Toronto: L.K. Cameron, 1910), p 13. https://archive.org/embed/n07ontariosessional42ontauofthttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/a636.jpga636Melrose and Walter Hawke at Justamere. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A636.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/c547.jpgc547The Hawke's Justamere Ranch. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C547.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pa-978-11.jpgJohn Hawks farm, near Medicine Hat, Alberta.Hand tinted colour postcard of the Hawke family farm, near Medicine Hat, c.1910. C.S. Company Ltd., Winnipeg, Manitoba, photo number 13. "John Hawks farm, near Medicine Hat, Alberta.", [ca. 1910], (CU1197331). Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. 2022-07-02T00:38:56+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/05/11/thorold/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ch1974.173.1-2__entree_dish_neg_8804-20.jpgCH1974.173.1-2__entree_dish_neg_8804-20The Swan River Cup, presented to Richard Stirling Grant Thorold's grandfather, Admiral Stirling, and now part of the collections at the Western Australian Museum (CH1974.173.1-2).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/alexanderwilliamthoroldgrant_pastoralpioneersofsouthaustralia_vol1_p64.pngAlexanderWilliamThoroldGrant_PastoralPioneersofSouthAustralia_Vol1_p64Richard's father, Alexander WIlliam Thorold Grant (later A.W. Thorold Grant Thorold). Pastoral pioneers of South Australia Adelaide, (Adelaide: Publishers Limited, 1925), p 64. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2816995741https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/b-8015.jpegB-8015Coonatto Station homestead [B 8015], State Library South Australia, c. 1860. https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+80152022-05-10T22:49:58+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/02/16/firlands/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/d-20_mackaycc.jpgD-20_MacKay,CCColin Campbell is buried at the Windermere Cemetery (plot D-20). Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/e-02649_141_bcarchives_heforsterranch.jpge-02649_141_BCArchives_HEForsterRanchCrops laid out at Firlands. "The H.E. Forster Ranch," Item E-02649, BC Archives, undated.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/c1074.jpgc1074The enlarged house at Firlands. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1074.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/c1071.jpgc1071A brief flash of Firlands history: the short lived dam on Forster Creek. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives C1071.2022-04-29T21:53:50+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/04/27/windermere-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a1311.jpga1311Group outside the Windermere Hotel, prior to enlistment in the First World War. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives A1311.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/nc-53-567.jpgLake Windermere from St. Peter's church, Windermere, British ColH.W. Gleason, "Lake Windermere from St. Peter's church, Windermere, British Columbia.", 19 September 1909. Glenbow Archives: NA-53-567. Unique Identified: CU172110, Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a-05253_141_bcarchives.jpga-05253_141_BCArchivesThe gently sloping grasslands of Windermere point (the cemetery) descending into Lake Windermere. Item A-05253 - "Lake Windermere," [190-]. BC Archives (Victoria B.C.).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/nc-53-163.jpgSunset from Rufus Kimpton ranch, Windermere, British Columbia.It's difficult to image, with all the trees and houses today, that grasslands and open spaces used to be the norm. H.W. Gleason, "Sunset from Rufus Kimpton ranch, Windermere, British Columbia.", 21 September 1921. Glenbow Archives NC-53-163. Unique Identifier: CU171780. Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/nc-53-568.jpgLake Windermere from St. Peter's church, Windermere, British ColA number of Gleason's photos were of the sunset across the lake, taken from St Peter's Church (one wonders what he could have done with colour). H.W. Gleason, "Lake Windermere from St. Peter's church, Windermere, British Columbia.", 19 September 1909, Glenbow Archives NC-53-567. Identifier: CU172110, Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/nc-53-577.jpgSawtooth range, Windermere, British Columbia.Herbert Wendell Gleason was fascinated by light and clouds around Windermere: his collection of photos at the Glenbow Archives has numerous examples H.W. Gleason, "Sawtooth range, Windermere, British Columbia.", 22 September 1909. Glenbow Archives NC-53-577. Identifier: CU172076. Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/reportministermines1952_windermere_a201-copy.jpgReportMinisterMines1952_Windermere_A201 copyJ.M. Cummings, "Windermere from the air," 1952. British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Minister of Mines, Annual Report for the Year Ended 31st December 1952 (Victoria: Don McDiarmid, 1953), p A 201. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a1113.jpga1113A smattering of buildings across the lake. [undated] Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1113.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a462.jpga462The growing townsite of Windermere. St Peter's Church is nestled in the trees to the far right, with the "White House" (the Kimpton Home) and the rest of main street Windermere to the right. In the centre, behind the tall tree, is the school. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A462.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a-05296_141_bcarchives.jpga-05296_141_BCArchivesThe growing town of Windermere. The back of St Peter's Church is visible to the right, with the "main street" of downtown to the left. Item A-05296 - "Windermere," [190-]. B.C. Archives (Victoria B.C.)2022-04-27T09:35:42+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/03/16/brady/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a651.jpga651Hydraulic mining was an effective way at moving rock: it was also incredibly destructive. Washing away entire hillsides left no vegetation remaining, and no topsoil for plants to regrow. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A651.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cg104550_lot21_brady_img402.jpgCG1045/50_Lot21_Brady_Img402Crown Grant no 1045/50, (Lot 21, James Brady, 15 August 1890), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 50 (no 0988/0050-1083/0050), 1890. FamilySearch database, img 401 of 648.2022-04-17T23:34:34+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/04/13/windermere-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/b-04353_141_thewindermeregovernmentofficebuilt1882_bcarchives_1921.jpgb-04353_141_TheWindermereGovernmentOfficeBuilt1882_BCArchives_1921The original "Government House," taken c.1921, incorrectly labelled in BC Archives records as having been built in 1882 (it was 1886-1888). Item B-04353 - "The Windermere government office, built 1882." BC Archives (Victoria B.C.) https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/windermerelots2-copy.jpgWindermereLots2 copyLots claimed near Windermere by settlers before the Akisqnuk First Nation boundaries were laid out.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/screen-shot-2022-04-05-at-9.30.20-am.pngScreen Shot 2022-04-05 at 9.30.20 AMFor context: the borders of Lot 6 overlaid with a more recent satellite shot of Revelstoke. (Satellite Image from GoogleMaps) Farwell's townsite (the "Lower Town" was on the north side of the lot. The C.P.R. constructed its own townsite (the "Upper Town") alongside its station, which itself was initially located just outside the borders of Farwell's granted lot.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cgno319_13jan1885_lot6_img262.jpgCGNo319_13Jan1885_Lot6_img262Original survey for Farwell's 1,175 acre Lot 6 at present-day Revelstoke. British Columbia. Crown Land Registry and the Office of the Surveyor General. Crown Grant No 319 (Arthur Stanhope Farwell, 13 January 1885), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 24 (no 0262/0024-0344/0024), 1884-1885. FamilySearch Database, img 263 of 385. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cgno317_12jan1885_lot8_img254.jpgCGNo317_12Jan1885_Lot8_img254Receipt, dated 1 November 1884, for the purchase of Lot 8, with money "Received From" A.W.V. for John Jane. Crown Grant no 317 (Edmund Parker, 12 Jan 1885), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 24 (no 0262/0024-0344/0024) year 1884-1885. FamilySearch database img 254 of 385. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/a-04102_bcarchives_nwmpencampment_1887.jpga-04102_BCArchives_NWMPEncampment_1887North West Mounted Police expeditionary force encampment at Lake Windermere, 1887. Item A-04102, BC Archives, https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cg112552_14nov1890_rltgalbraith_ptlot8_img306.jpgCG1125:52_14Nov1890_RLTGalbraith_PtLot8_img306Survey of the sub-lot containing Government House, c.1890. Crown Grant No 1125/52 (Robert L.T. Galbraith, 14 November 1890, Part of Lot 8), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 52 (no 1084/0052-1182/0052) year 1890-1891. FamilySearch database, img 307 of 762.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cgno317_12jan1885_lot8_img248.jpgCGNo317_12Jan1885_Lot8_img248The Windermere townsite lot, Lot 8, first surveyed in August 1885. Crown Grant no 317 (Edmund Parker, 12 Jan 1885), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 24 (no 0262/0024-0344/0024) year 1884-1885. FamilySearch database img 250 of 385. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/map-1872.pngMap 1872Salmon Lake, seen also as Lower Columbia Lake, 1872. J Bartholomew, F.R.G.S. (Drawn and Engraved). British North America. Sheet III. Pacific Coast: British Columbia and Vancouver Island. (A Fullerton & Co: Edinburgh, London and Dublin, 1872).2022-04-17T15:39:54+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/03/30/barbour/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cgno8631446_johnsmithbarbour_26oct1918_img421.jpgCGNo8631:446_JohnSmithBarbour_26Oct1918_Img421The Barbour Ranch [image cropped]. Crown Grant No 8631/446 (Lot 4338, John Smith Barbour, 26 October 1918), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 446 (no 8601/0446-8700/0446), 1920-1921. FamilySearch database img 421.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/na-10013_141_htbarbour.jpgna-10013_141_HTBarbourH.T. Barbour, Ranger at Pouce Coupe, 4 May 1950. Forest Service Personnel Photographs, BC Archives, Item NA-10013.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a252.jpga252Windermere Valley Musuem and Archives, A252.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a250.jpga250Watching the billy boil. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A250.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a251.jpga251Harvest time at the Barbour Ranch. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A251.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a180.jpga180The four Barbour boys (none of these photos have all four looking at the camera :) ). Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A180.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/a181.jpga181Marguerite Barbour on the Barbour Ranch, in front of what is now known as Barbour Rock. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A181.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/outcrop_5july1900_p2.pngOutcrop_5July1900_p2John Barbour drumming up business in July 1900. Eventually word-of-mouth would do much of this advertising for him. The Outcrop (Canterbury B.C.), 5 July 1900, p 2.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/c348.jpgc348John Smith and Marguerite Barbour, likely a wedding portrait, 1900. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C348.2022-03-08T23:17:29+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/03/02/black-diamond/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/westone_westfromblackdiamond_caj_p51.pngWEStone_WestFromBlackDiamond_CAJ_p51The view looking west from Black Diamond Mountain, 1916. W.E. Stone, Looking West From Black Diamond. IN ‘Climbs and Explorations in the Purcell Range in 1916,’ The Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol 8 (1917), p 51.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/westone_monumentpeaklookingsouthwest_caj_p51-1.pngWEStone_MonumentPeakLookingSouthwest_CAJ_p51W.E. Stone, Monument Peak Looking Southwest. IN ‘Climbs and Explorations in the Purcell Range in 1916,’ The Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol 8 (1917), p 51.2022-03-01T22:17:48+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/02/02/forster-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lundy_john0001.jpgLundy_John0001Death Certificate of John Lundy, 26 September 1940, Reg No 1940-09-579157. BC Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/forster_haroldernest0001.jpgForster_HaroldErnest0001Death Certificate of Harold Ernest Forster, 26 September 1940, Reg No 1940-09-579123. BC Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/tabledeathsentences.jpgTableDeathSentencesTrial and sentencing timeline of cases in British Columbia, resulting in the death penalty, immediately preceding the case against Frank Sylvester.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/lundy_john0001-copy.jpgLundy_John0001 copyDeath Certificate of John Lundy, 26 September 1940, Reg No 1940-09-579157. BC Archives (cropped).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/forster_haroldernest0001-copy.jpgForster_HaroldErnest0001 copyDeath Certificate of Harold Ernest Forster, 26 September 1940, Reg No 1940-09-579123. BC Archives (cropped).2022-02-02T09:05:48+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/01/19/forster-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/c1073.jpgc1073Harold Forster (right), possibly with the children of his manager: and Meda Hume. WIndermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1073.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/c1072.jpgc1072A day out on the Selkirk. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1072https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/a1346.jpga1346Forster's steamer, the Selkirk. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1346.2022-01-24T08:40:38+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/11/24/windermere-hotel/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a723-1.jpga723The opening of the new Windermere Hotel, 1899. The original log building is on the left, with Stoddart’s new, enlarged addition to the right. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A723.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a474-1.jpga474The Windermere Hotel, complete with decorative elements. The original hotel is the log building to the left. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A474.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a105-1.jpga105The 1923 addition to the Windermere Hotel, to right. Windermere Valley Musuem and Archives, A105.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a2046-1.jpga2046Looking north down what is now Sinclair Ave in Windermere. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A2046.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c259-1.jpgc259View west down what is now Government Street towards Windermere Lake, with the original log hotel building on the left, and the still standing Pitts General Store up and to the right. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C259.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a113.jpga113A much later (1920s) photo of the original log hotel building. It looks as if an addition has been added to the back. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A113 [cropped].https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/windermerehoteladvert_theoutcrop_1900_07_05_p2.pngWindermereHotelAdvert_TheOutcrop_1900_07_05_p2Advertisement for the Windermere Hotel, The Outcrop (Canterbury B.C.), 5 July 1900, p 2. 2022-01-05T00:06:21+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2022/01/05/frances/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/l2577_preemptrecord_7sept1896_img133-copy.jpgL2577_PreemptRecord_7Sept1896_[img133] copyCertificate of Pre-emption Record for Lot 2577, dated 7 September 1896 and describing the lot as being "near Frances Creek." In Crown Grant No 1171/109, British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 109 (no 1156/0109-1252/0109), 1899-1900. FamilySearch Database, img 133 of 789 [cropped].https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/l380_railway__surveynotice7june1894_cgno49069_8june94.jpgL380_Railway__SurveyNotice7June1894_CGNo490:69_8June94The earliest map found with "Frances Creek" labelled: Lot 380 was surveyed for the Columbia and Kootenay Railway and Navigation Company in June 1894. Crown Grant no 490/69, (8 June 1894), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 69 (no 0397/0069-0495/0069), 1893-1894. FamilySearch database, img 682 of 727.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/c938_2.jpgC938_2Frances Forster and her mother, Meda, 1916 at Firlands Ranch. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c938.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/c1078-1.jpgc1078The Forster family, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1078.2022-01-06T00:04:20+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/12/22/johnston-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lot9196_johnston.jpgLot9196_JohnstonSurvey Map of Lot 9196 (Comfort Ranch). CG No 4628/249, (James S Johnston, 7 February 1910), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 249 (no 4608/-249-4707/0249), 1910. FamilySearch Database, img 163 of 766. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/c242.jpgc242Jim and Ed Johnston at Comfort Ranch, 1907. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C242.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/d-04_johnsona.m.jpgD-04_Johnson,A.MGrave marker of Alice M Johnston (1872-1908), Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/lot5119_johnston.jpgLot5119_JohnstonSurvey Map of Lot 5119, including the location of the Toby Creek Bridge. CG No 1986/163, (James S Johnston, 13 July 1905), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 163 (no 1937/0163-2035/0163), 1904-1906, img 540 of 1140. 2022-04-28T03:34:43+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/12/08/johnston-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/reservelotboundaries2.jpgReserveLotBoundaries2Lots staked near Windermere before the Reserve was established in August 1884.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/l216_johnston.jpgL216_JohnstonSurvey for lots 216, 1007 and 1008 for Edmund Johnston. Crown Grant No 2499/101 (Edmund T Johnston, 30 March 1899), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 101 (no 2488/0101-2589/0101), 1898-1902. FamilySearch Database, img 83 of 826.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/invermere-e70-1.jpgInvermere E70Johnston's Ranch from the summit of Mt Swansea, later to be the townsite of Invermere. Unknown date, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Album E70.2025-01-15T22:11:56+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/11/10/stoddart/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c1408-1.jpgc1408Rose and Eleanora Jerger, sisters who married brothers James and David Stoddart. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1408.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/jastoddart_lot288_cg227974_vol74_img420.jpgJAStoddart_Lot288_CG2279:74_Vol74_img420Sketch of Stoddart's pre-emption, reverse side of Stoddart's original pre-emption record from 4 Oct 1886. British Columbia. Crown Land Registry Services and the Office of the Surveyor General, Sketch of original pre-emption, 1886. Crown Grant No 2279/74, James A Stoddart B.C. Crown Land Grants Vol 74 (no 2222/0074-2316/0074), 1893-1895, FamilySearch database: img 421 of 660. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a379.jpga379Charles Ellis and Walter Stoddart at Ellenvale Ranch. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives A379.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c1413.jpgc1413Walter Stoddart, c1900. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives C1413.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/a1305.jpga1305Edgar Stoddart (standing, far left) in front of the Windermere hotel, c1915. Also pictured: (L-R) Joseph Young; Sinclair Craig (blacksmith); Edward Parry (teamster); H.B. Richardson (carpenter). Front Row L-R: Clessom Hauley (stagecoach driver); ? Connover. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives A1305.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c1412.jpgc1412Evelyn Stoddart, c1900. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1412.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/c1410.jpgc1410James Stoddart, c.1900. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1410.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/jastoddart_lot288_cg227974_vol74_img418.jpgJAStoddart_Lot288_CG2279:74_Vol74_img418Survey for Crown Land Grant No 2279/74 (James A Stoddart, 11 September 1894). British Columbia. Crown Land Registry and the Office of the Surveyor General. British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 74 (no no 2222/0074-2316/0074), 1893-1895. FamilySearch Database, img 418 of 660.2021-11-12T07:52:02+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/10/13/stockdale/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/c724.jpgc724The original Invermere Hardware building is now used by Village Arts. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C724.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/d-04_stockdalef.c.2.jpgD-04_Stockdale,F.C.2Marker for Francis C Stockdale at plot D-04 in the Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller, 2016.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/c1098.jpgc1098Frank Stockdale, owner of the Invermere hardware. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C1098.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/l5119_johnston.jpgL5119_JohnstonSurvey Map of Lot 5119, including the location of the Toby Creek Bridge. CG No 1986/163, (James S Johnston, 13 July 1905), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 163 (no 1937/0163-2035/0163), 1904-1906, img 540 of 1140. 2021-10-28T04:37:46+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/10/27/mcdonald/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img_5308-copy.jpgIMG_5308 copyA much more recent (1967) but illustrative example of a claim stake. Note the information required has not changed much. Photo: Herb Weller 2021-11-01T11:00:48+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/09/29/geary/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/theprospector_1897-02-20_p4.pngTheProspector_1897-02-20_p4Advertisement for Freeman and Geary, The Prospector (Fort Steele, B.C.), 20 February 1897, p 4.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/c-00780_141_doyleandgearyliverystablescranbrook_bcarchives_.jpgc-00780_141_DoyleAndGearyLiveryStablesCranbrook_BCArchives_The Geary and Doyle Livery Stables in Cranbrook, c.1900. Item C-00780, "Doyle and Geary Livery Stables; Cranbrook," BC Archives. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ggeary_lot138_cg77144_vol44_1889_img652-copy.jpgGGeary_Lot138_CG771:44_Vol44_1889_img652 copyGeary's Lot 138, located on the wagon road close to Fairmont Springs. In British Columbia, Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria. Crown Grant No 771/44, Lot 138 (George Geary, 19 November 1889), British Columbia Land Grants, Vol 44 (no 0689/0044-0803/0044), 1889-1890, FamilySearch Database: img 652 of 885. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ggeary_lot40_cg6611889_vol32_img557-copy.jpgGGeary_Lot40_CG661(1889)_Vol32_img557 copySurvey map for George Geary's Lot 40, undated. British Columbia, Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria. Crown Grant No 661 (1889), Lot 40 (George Geary), British Columbia Land Grants, Vol 32 (no 0570/0032-0688/0032), 1889, FamilySearch Database: img 557 of 754.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cranbrookherald_1904_12_22_p36.pngCranbrookHerald_1904_12_22_p36Advertisement for The Cranbrook Livery, Geary & Doyle. The Cranbrook Herald, 22 December 1904, p 36. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cranbrookherald_1898_08_25_p4.pngCranbrookHerald_1898_08_25_p4Advertisement for "The Palace", The Cranbrook Herald, 25 August 1898, p 4.2021-09-29T12:01:16+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/08/18/hardie/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ahardie_lot54_bccrownlandgrants_cg229174_vol74_img495.jpgAHardie_Lot54_BCCrownLandGrants_CG2291:74_Vol74_img495A survey map of Alfred Hardie's Lot 54 pre-emption. Lot 291, located just to the north, was purchased by his brother, Samuel Hardie. Crown Grant no 2291/74, Alfred Hardie (19 October 1894), British Columbia Land Grants Vol 74 (no 2222/0074-2316/0074), 1893-1895. Img 495 of 660.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/whardie_lot139_bccrownlandgrants_cg96349_vol49_img482.jpgWHardie_Lot139_BCCrownLandGrants_CG963:49_Vol49_img484A survey of William Hardie's Lot 139 pre-emption. Crown Grant 963/49, William Hardie (26 May 1890), British Columbia Crown Land Grants, Vol 49 (no 0891/0049-0987/0049), 1890. Img 484 of 646. 2021-09-16T00:20:54+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/07/21/dunbar/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/mbarbour_lot9459_cg1993286_vol286_img887.jpgMBarbour_Lot9459_CG1993/286_Vol286_img887Receipt for Crown Grant No 1993/286, with signatures of Marguerite Barbour and Chas T Dunbar. British Columbia. Crown Land Registry and the Office of the Surveyor General. Crown Grant No 1993/286 (Marguerite Barbour, 9 Aug 1911), British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 286 (no 1901/0286-1996/0286), 1911, img 887.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jsbarbour_lot9458_cg1992286_vol286_img878.jpgJSBarbour_Lot9458_CG1992:286_Vol286_img878Receipt for Crown Grant No 1992/286, with signatures of Johns Barbour and Chas T Dunbar. British Columbia. Crown Land Registry and the Office of the Surveyor General. Crown Grant No 1992/286 (John S Barbour, 9 Aug 1911), British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 286 (no 1901/0286-1996/0286), 1911, img 878.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/jsbarbour_lot9458_cg1992286_vol286_img876.jpgJSBarbour_Lot9458_CG1992/286_Vol286_img876Survey of Lot 9458 for John S Barbour. British Columbia. Crown Land Registry and the Office of the Surveyor General. Crown Grant No 1992/286 (John S Barbour, 9 Aug 1911), British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 286 (no 1901/0286-1996/0286), 1911, img 876.2021-09-16T00:14:50+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/05/26/paddy-ryan/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/img_7728-copy.jpgIMG_7728 copyA very poor quality and cut off picture of a 1933 map of Invermere's water supply. Plan of Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Limited. Invermere B.C. Lake Division Irrigation Storage Reservoir and Domestic Water Systems [cropped]. O.A. McGuinness, 15 Dec 1933. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives2021-09-16T00:00:49+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/05/12/mclean/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/mcleanfindagrave_noworries.jpgDavid R McLean's grave at Union Cemetery in Calgary. Photo by "No Worries" (2014), Find A Grave.com2021-09-15T23:58:31+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/04/14/hurst/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/e-07_hurstj.m.jpgE-07_Hurst,J.MGravestone of John Milton Hurst at the Windermere Cemetery. Photo: Alex Weller2021-09-15T23:53:02+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/01/20/fairmont/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/severalpeopleswimmingradiumbc_msc130-5539-01.jpgSeveralPeopleSwimmingRadiumBC_MSC130-5539-01The concrete swimming pool with changing rooms and one of the accommodation tents behind, 1920s. "Several People in a Swimming Pool in Radium B.C." MSC130-5539-01 courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sunsetfromemanationhill.pngSunsetFromEmanationHill1920s postcard "Sunset from Hot Springs on Emanation Hill." https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cranbrookherald_1926-05-20_p8.pngCranbrookHerald_1926-05-20_p8Advertisement for Radium Tavern at Radium B.C. Cranbrook Herald, 20 May 1926, p 8.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/postcard_swimmingpool_radiumbc.jpgPostcard_SwimmingPool_RadiumBCThe mountains across the valley from the hot pools at Radium B.C. (late Fairmont Hot Springs), 1920s. Postcard.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/radium_swimmingpool.jpgRadium_SwimmingPoolPostcard for Radium B.C. Swimming Pool at Radium B.C. (late Fairmont Hot Springs), 1920s.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/entrance_to_springs_radiumbc_msc130-5535-02.jpgEntrance_To_Springs_RadiumBC_MSC130-5535-02The entrance up the hill to the hot springs at Fairmont, 1920s. "Entrance to Springs, Radium B.C." MSC130-5535-02 courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/camp_radiumbc_msc130-5538-02.jpgCamp_RadiumBC_MSC130-5538-02Part of the tent camp underneath the Fairmont Range. "Camp Radium B.C." MSC130-5538-02 courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/c162.jpgc162A very similar view, some years later. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c162.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/bc1887_p161-1.jpgBC1887_p161Fairmont in 1887. J.a. Lees and Walter J Clutterbuck, B.C. 1887: a ramble in British Columbia (London: Longmans Green and Co, 1888), p 161.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/fairmonthotspringswindermerebc_fruitlandscop20.jpgFairmontHotSprings)WindermereBC_FruitLandsCo,p20An artistic impression of the view north from Fairmont Hot Springs, c.1911. Windermere B.C.: Orchards, Sports, Homes (Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Ltd, c.1911), p 20.2021-09-15T23:30:31+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/09/15/andreen-haultain-ogelston/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/columbiavalleyirrigatedfruitlandsltd.jpgColumbiaValleyIrrigatedFruitLandsLtdLot map for the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands Ltd, c1911. Columbia Valley Fruit Lands Limited, Prospectus (30 September 1911). https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/hogleston_lot7911_cg2622214_vol214_img105.jpgHOgleston_Lot7911_CG2622/214_Vol214_img105Survey of Lot 7911 for Harry Ogleston. Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria, B.C., Crown Grant No 2622/214, Harry Ogleston for Lot 7911, 14 February 1908, British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 214 (no 2610/0214-2709/0214), 1908. [img 104 of 859].https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/eandreen_lot1735_cg823270_vol270_img231.jpgEAndreen_Lot1735_CG823:270_Vol270_img231Survey of Lot 1735 for Edwin Andreen's 1911 Crown Grant.2021-09-15T04:41:53+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/09/01/marion/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cjbrownrigg_lot663_cg51375_vol75_img104.jpgCJBrownrigg_Lot663_CG513:75_Vol75_img104Survey of Lot 663 for Charles J. Brownrigg. Crown Land Registry Services, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Victoria, B.C., Crown Grant No 513/75, Charles J Brownrigg for Lot 663, 13 December 1894, British Columbia Crown Land Grants Vol 75 (no 0496/0075-0584/0075), 1894-1896. [img 140 of 720].https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/kootenaystar_1890-06-28_p3.pngKootenayStar_1890-06-28_p3An advertisement from June 1890 for the Kootenay Mail line lists the Marion as part of its fleet. The Marion was the only boat in this fleet located in the West Kootenays. The Kootenay Star (Revelstoke), 28 June 1890, p 3. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ssmarion_bcarchives_a-00737_141.jpgSSMarion_BCArchives_a-00737_141The SS Marion with her new, extended pilot house. "SS Marion," BC Archives, A-00737.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ssmarionatgoatriversloughwithrailwayconstructionworkers_bcarchives_f-01955_141.jpgSSMarionAtGoatRiverSloughWithRailwayConstructionWorkers_BCArchives_f-01955_141SS Marion At Goat River Slough With Railway Construction Workers, BC Archives, f-01955.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/ssmarion_bcarchives_b-02610_141.jpgSSMarion_BCArchives_b-02610_141The S.S. Marion, unknown location. "SS Marion," BC Archives, B-02610.2021-09-01T13:46:48+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/06/24/body-creek/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/samsteele_titlepage.jpgSamSteele_TitlePageSam Steele, Forty years in Canada: reminiscences of the great North-West, with some account of his service in South Africa (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild, Stewart, 1918), Title Page.2021-08-06T00:54:04+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/08/26/ethelbert_original/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ethelbert_canalpineclub-e1597196092986.jpgEthelbert_CanAlpineClubW.E. Stone, Sketch Map of the location of Mount Ethelbert, 1911. In WE Stone, "Mt Ethelbert and the Region on the South Fork of the Salmon River," The Canadian Alpine Journal Vol 7 (1916), p 21.2021-07-19T00:30:19+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/08/26/ethelbert/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sisterethelbert.pngSisterEthelbertSister Ethelbert. In Elizabeth Schoffen, The Demands of Rome: Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2nd Ed. (Portland, Oregon, 1917), p 49.2021-07-19T00:29:06+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/07/07/giant-mine-3/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/photospillimacheenvalleyfromgiantmascot_pf507088.jpgPhotoSpillimacheenValleyFromGiantMascot_PF507088Spillimacheen Valley from the Giant Mascot Mine, undated. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File: PF507088.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/reportofgeologicalsurveyonmineralclaimgroupsbluebellfractionsilverbell_pf021916_p16.jpgReportofGeologicalSurveyonMineralClaimGroupsBlueBellFractionSilverBell_PF021916_p16Claim Map, Silver Giant Mines Ltd Geology of Blue Bell Mineral Claims... Oct 1948. In "Report of Geological Survey on Mineral Claim Groups Blue Bell Fraction, Silver Bell," British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File: PF021916, p 16. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/photoofsilvergiant_spillimacheenmine_pf503382.jpgPhotoOfSilverGiant_SpillimacheenMine_PF503382Large open cut at the Giant mine. "Photo of Silver Giant, Spillimacheen Mine," British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File: PF503382https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/photoofaircontrolledchute_pf003756-1.jpgPhotoofAirControlledChute_PF003756Photo of air controlled chute gate on the No 7 Level of the Silver Giant Mine, 1954. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File: PF003756. Also found in: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly. Minister of Mines Province of British Columbia Annual Report for the Year Ended 31st December 1954 (Victoria: Don McDiarmid, Government Printer, 1955), p A147.2021-07-08T00:06:31+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/01/15/farnham/2021-06-28T23:24:13+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/06/09/nowitka/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/geographicaljournal1932v791p34.jpgGeographicalJournal1932V79(1)p34"Sketch Map of the Purcell Range and sources of the Kootenay River," IN J Monroe Thorington and Eaton Cromwell, "The Purcell Source of the Kootenay River," The Geographical Journal Vol 79, no 1 (January to June 1932), p 34.2021-06-09T01:57:31+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/03/31/paradise-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/paradisemine_newsclipping_mf082kse029_pf004182.jpgParadiseMine_NewsClipping_MF082KSE029_PF004182The Paradise Mine, 1951. The Nelson Daily News, 15 November 1951. News Clipping in the Property File, British Columbia Geological Survey. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/reportonparadisemine_1970_camstephenfile_082kse029_pf674497.jpgReportOnParadiseMine_1970_CamStephenFile_082KSE029_PF674497Bacon and Crowhurst Ltd, Longitudinal Section of the Paradise Mine, Jan 1970. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/c1536.jpgc1536The extent of the workings at the Paradise Mine, undated (1920s). Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c1536.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1925miningreport_paradise_a220.jpg1925MiningReport_Paradise_A220The upper workings of the Paradise Mine, 1925. Annual Report of the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1925, p A220.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/annualminingreport1927_paradiseplan_pc261-1.jpgAnnualMiningReport1927_ParadisePlan_pC261Longitudinal Projection of the Paradise Mine, 1927. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1927. C261.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a568.jpga568The Paradise Mine concentrator, 1928. Equipment for the concentrator (and building) had to be hauled up the hill to the mine-site, but operation difficulties meant it was only used for one year. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A568.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/paradise_2014_weller.jpgParadise_2014_WellerThe Paradise Mine site from a similar angle in July 2014. Photo: Alex Wellerhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a567.jpga567The Paradise Mine late 1928, with the concentrator mill in middle at the back. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A567https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/annualreportmines_1928_pc273.jpgAnnualReportMines_1928_pC273The concentrator mill at the Paradise Mine, 1928. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31 December 1928, p C273.2021-05-07T01:11:41+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/04/28/edgewater/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_coverpage_1911-1.jpgCVO_CoverPage_1911Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd, 1911), cover.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_viewsteamboatlandingoncompanysproperty_p13.jpgCVO_ViewSteamboatLandingonCompanysProperty_p13The arrival of the Kootenay Central Railway in summer 1914 replaced the steamboat landing for shipments of freight and supplies. Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 13.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_unloadingcampsuppliesoncompanysproperty_p15.jpgCVO_UnloadingCampSuppliesonCompanysProperty_p15Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 15.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_steamboatlandingoncompanysproperty_p16.jpgCVO_SteamboatLandingonCompanysProperty_p16The Nowitka unloading supplies at Edgewater. Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 16.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_park-likeappearanceofsomeofthecompanyslands_p12.jpgCVO_Park-likeAppearanceofSomeoftheCompanysLands_p12Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 12.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_landclearingoperationsshootingstumps_p6.jpgCVO_LandClearingOperationsShootingStumps_p6Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 6.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cvo_gradingroadthroughcompanyheadquarters_p7.jpgCVO_GradingRoadThroughCompanyHeadquarters_p7Columbia Valley Orchards: apples and alfalfa (Vancouver: Columbia Valley Orchards Ltd), p 7.2021-04-29T23:19:44+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/03/03/ben-abel/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/img_1554.jpgIMG_1554Ben Abel. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, Settler File "Ben Abel".2021-04-16T06:35:26+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/02/17/mineral-king-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/annualreportmines_1959_mineralking_p82-1.jpgAnnualReportMines_1959_MineralKing_p82Part of the plan of Mineral King Mine, 1959, showing tunnels and various ore bodies. British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Lode Metals : Report of the Minister of Mines, 1959 (Victoria: Government Printer, 1960), p 82.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/photo_outcrop_minking_slide1-124msh_dickplayerfile_082kse001_pf505898.jpgPhoto_Outcrop_MinKing_Slide1-124MSH_DickPlayerFile_082KSE001_PF505898The level 1 entrance of the mine (typically referred to as the "Glory Hole") to the left; 2 Level entrance slightly below it to the right. Photo undated. Outcrop Mineral King (Slide 2), Dick Player File. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/echo_11july1974.jpgEcho_11July1974Construction of the concentrator at the Mineral King Mine by Purcell Development Co Ltd. "Mineral King Mine Soon in Operation," The Lake Windermere Valley Echo, 11 July 1974.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/surfaceplanmap_minking_mf082kse001_pf004124.jpgSurfacePlanMap_MinKing_MF082KSE001_PF004124The Mineral King Townsite. Surface Plan Map – Mineral King Mine. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File (PF004124)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/photo_minking_slide1-122msh_dickplayerfile_mf082kse001_pf505896.jpgPhoto_MinKing_Slide1-122MSH_DickPlayerFile_MF082KSE001_PF505896Surface Tramway coming into the Mineral King Concentrator. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File (PF505896).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/photo_mingkingslide1-123msh_dickplayerfile_082kse001_pf505897.jpgPhoto_MingKingSlide1-123MSH_DickPlayerFile_082KSE001_PF505897Level 3 Adit, Mineral King Mine. British Columbia Geological Society, Property File (PF505897)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/propertyplanmap_minking_mf082kse001_pf004125.jpgPropertyPlanMap_MinKing_MF082KSE001_PF004125Sheep Creek Mines, Ltd. Mineral King Mine Property Plan, Dec 1961. [cropped] British Columbia Geological Society, Property File (PF004125)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/minkingsurfaceandundergroundplan_1967_mineplanscollection_082kse001_pf750212_copy.jpgMinKingSurfaceandUndergroundPlan_1967_MinePlansCollection_082KSE001_PF750212_copyMineral King Surface and Underground Plan, December 1961 (updated 1 Dec 1967). British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File (PF50212)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/minemillcamptailingspondsontobycreek_mineralking_mf082kse001_pf004117.jpgMineMillCampTailingsPondsonTobyCreek_MineralKing_MF082KSE001_PF004117Mineral King mine, 1959. The Mineral King lead-zinc mine, mill, camp, and tailings pond, on Toby Creek. The ore comes from underground at mill level, but for some years it was lowered by surface tram from No 3 level. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File (PF004117). https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/longitudinalsectionmapazoneminking_mf082kse001_pf004128.jpgLongitudinalSectionMap"A"ZoneMinKing_MF082KSE001_PF004128Sheep Creek Mines, Longitudinal Section Map "A" Zone, Mineral King Mine, Nov 1960. British Columbia Geological Survey, Property File (Library File, PF004128)2021-02-18T00:08:01+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/02/03/mineral-king-1/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/a655.jpga655The mouth of the tunnel at Mineral King, early 1900s. Identification of the people is sketchy: William Taynton is sitting, and it is likely that the one with the fabulous beard is Ben Abel. The other two might be Mr Carter (leaning), and Joe Erickson (standing), although I have no record of either of these people being involved with the claim. Windermere Valley Museum, A655.2021-02-03T00:25:33+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/about/2021-01-21T21:12:26+00:00weekly0.6https://inthewindermere.home.blog/2021/01/06/radium-hot-springs-2/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/overviewradiumhotsprings.jpgOverviewRadiumHotSpringsAn aerial view of the aquacourt at Radium Hot Springs with the remains of the townsite, 1960s. Postcard.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/automobileclubofbc_officialmotoristsguideofbc_1931-copy.jpgAutomobileClubofBC_OfficialMotoristsGuideofBC_1931 copyThere are a number of maps and tourists pamphlets around with two "Radiums" labelled (I've seen ones with two 'Radium Hot Springs' labelled). This one seems to try and reduce the confusion with a "Radium Hot Springs," and a "Radium." Automobile Club of British Columbia, Official Motorist's Guide of British Columbia (Vancouver: Automobile Club of British Columbia, 1931), Map 25A.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/c681.jpgc681A slightly wider angle of a similar view. Blakley Hotel in the foreground, and the park Gateway in back (roughly where the tent is in previous photo). The Sinclair creek bottom is wide and now tree-lined. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c681.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/c98.jpgc98The progression of development in Sinclair Canyon. Looking towards the hot springs (behind the white tent) after the early road was constructed. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, c98.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/a714-copy.jpga714 copyBathing in the proudly named Radium Hot Springs. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A714https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c1873.jpgc1873The new aquacourt complex, opened 1951, to replace the 1928 bathhouse. Windermere Valley Museum, C1873.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c1822.jpgc1822The hot pool after a tanker truck fire, 196?. The rectangular shaped hot pool was replaced shortly after with the oblong shape present today. Windermere Valley Museum, c1822.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a1066.jpga1066The Radium Hot Springs Pools with a new, frame building dressing room built 1928 (destroyed by fire in 1948). Windermere Valley Museum, A1066https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a694.jpga694The Radium Hot Springs Townsite (1930s) including the Bungalow camp (far left), Oliver's Gateway Lodge (on the hill bordering the road), the superintendent's house (above right of Oliver's), the gateway (bridging the road) and the pool and change rooms (far right). Windermere Valley Museum, A694.2021-01-20T10:38:16+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/04/15/duchess/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ad00402_10_outcrop-e1586917495284.pngAd00402_10_OutcropAdvertisement for the Duchess The Outcrop (Canterbury), 18 July 1901, p 4.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sladenduchess328.jpgSladen,Duchess,328The Duchess II on the Columbia. (Douglas Sladen, Being the journal of a pilgrimage along the queen's highway... (London: Ward, Locke & Co, 1894) p 328.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/duchess.jpgDuchessThe Duchess II, with a pile of firewood on shore. (Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1898, p 1034.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/duchess-1-p-72.jpgDuchess 1, p 72Don't lean back! (Lees and Clutterbuck, B.C. 1887, p 72.)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/the-duchess-p-96.jpgThe Duchess p 96The Duchess, shortly after her dunking in the river. (Lees and Clutterbuck, B.C 1887, p 96)2021-01-04T04:36:52+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/04/08/spillimacheen/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/windermere_kitchen_p147.jpgWindermere_Kitchen_p147A very grainy example of the "local dress". (Lees and Clutterbuck, BC 1887, p 147)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a280.jpga280Spillimacheen Train Station (Windermere Valley Museu, a280)2021-01-04T04:32:33+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/04/01/bugaboos/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/img_2057-1-e1583898081117.jpgIMG_2057Bugaboo Range from Chalice Ridge, Oct 2006. Photo: Alex Wellerhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/frenchmtnannualreport1936.jpgFrenchMtnAnnualReport1936Now likely Frechman's Mountain, Report of the Minister of Mines, Eastern District, for the year ended 31 Dec 1936, p 1.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/northforkvalleybugaboocreek_canalpinejournal_1911_p33.pngNorthForkValleyBugabooCreek_CanAlpineJournal_1911_p33Head of the valley, Sept 1910. Canadian Alpine Journal, 1911, p 33.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/aclusterofpeaks_canalpinejournal_1911_p33.pngAClusterofPeaks_CanAlpineJournal_1911_p33Snowpatch and Bugaboo Spire, Sept 1910. Canadian Alpine Journal, 1911, p 33.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/headofbugaboocreek.jpgHeadofBugabooCreekReport to the Minister of Mines for the year ending 31 Dec 1898, p 986.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/bugaboofalls.jpgBugabooFallsReport of the Minister of Mines for the year ending 31 Dec 1898, p 986. 2021-01-04T04:29:09+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/03/25/red-line/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ironcapcreek.jpgIronCapCreekIron Cap Creek was a tributary to McDonald Creek, and may have been another name for Red Line Creek. None of these glaciers remain. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the year ending 31 December 1915, p K 96.2021-01-04T04:26:34+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/03/18/horsethief/2021-01-04T04:22:52+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/03/11/armstrong/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/armstrong.jpgCaptain ArmstrongThe Captain of the "Duchess."2021-01-04T04:20:56+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/02/26/bunyan/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/a904castlerock.jpga904CastleRockCastle Rock from across Windermere Lake. Windermere Valley Museum, a9042021-01-04T04:13:20+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/02/19/nelson/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/mt-st-thomas.jpgMt St ThomasFrom the 1898 Report to the Minister of Mines in British Columbia, 2021-05-27T03:10:59+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/02/12/baillie-grohman/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sportandlifesundayrestp283.jpgSportandLifeSundayRestp283https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/william_adolf_baillie_grohman_1885.jpgWilliam_Adolf_Baillie_Grohman_(1885)2021-01-04T04:05:11+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/02/05/athalmer-kwataqnuk/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/a647.jpga647Athalmer, undated [late 1890s], Windermere Valley Museum, a6472022-08-03T15:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/01/29/vowell/2021-01-04T03:51:35+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/01/22/pedley/2021-01-04T03:48:32+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/01/08/gwendoline/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/gwendoline_sternwheeler_on_columbia_river_bc_ca_1896.jpgGwendoline_(sternwheeler)_on_Columbia_River,_BC_ca_1896The Gwendoline, c. 18962021-01-04T03:42:42+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/01/01/windermere-kananuk/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/map-1872-e1577739619539.pngMap 18721872 Map of British Columbiahttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/windermere-p-146.jpgWindermere Government HouseA sketch of Government House, summer 1887.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/windermere-2-from-top-of-loughrigg.jpgwindermere (2) from top of loughriggWindermere, From Top of Loughrigg. Postcard (undated)2021-01-04T03:35:16+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/12/23/sinclair/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/thebritishcolumbiamagazinev8n3march1912_p193_olivelake.jpgTheBritishColumbiaMagazineV8N3(March1912)_p193_OliveLakeSummit Lake at the top of Sinclair Pass (now Olive Lake). The British Columbia Magazine, Vol 8, No 3 (March1912), p193.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a242.jpga242The pictographs near the iron gates. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A242https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/throughthecanadianrockies_1929_p14-15-copy.jpgThroughtheCanadianRockies_1929_p14-15 copyThe Iron Gates c1932. Through the Canadian Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1932.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a80.jpga80Looking at pictographs along the Sinclair Canyon road. These pictographs were removed to widen the road. Windermere Valley Museum, a80.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a189.jpga189Sinclair Canyon from the hot springs side. Windermere Valley Museum a189.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a186.jpga186A pack train passing through Sinclair Pass shortly before the Banff Windermere Highway was completed in 1923. (check?) Windermere Valley Museum a186.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1a786.jpg1a786Construction begins to put a road through Sinclair Canyon. Note the men standing up on the walls. Windermere Valley Museum, a786.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c1463.jpgc1463The "pinprick of light." Windermere Valley Museum C1463.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/a743.jpga743Sinclair Canyon before any road development. Windermere Valley Museum, a743.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/reportmines1898_sinclaircanyon.jpgReportMines1898_SinclairCanyonSinclair Canyon taken from the west, 1898. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31 December 1898, p 1066.2020-12-23T00:28:17+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/12/16/goldie/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/goldie-brewer-traverse.jpgGoldie-Brewer TraverseLooking down the Goldie Creek Valley from the summit of Mount Goldie, 2016. Photo: Alex Weller2020-12-16T22:10:22+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/12/09/pert/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cdm.goldenera.1-0227173.0003full1.jpgcdm.goldenera.1-0227173.0003full(1)Advertisement for the Upper Columbia Navigation & Tramway Company, The Golden Era, 29 July 1893, p 4.2020-12-09T09:52:45+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/12/02/galena/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/thebritishcolumbiamagazinev8n5may1912_p352_galena-e1606858851398.jpgTheBritishColumbiaMagazineV8N5(May1912)_p352_GalenaThe area around Galena. The British Columbia Magazine Vol 8, No 5 (May 1912), p 352.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/c6.jpgc6St Mark's Presbyterian Church at Galena, 1916. Windermere Valley Museum, C6.2020-12-01T21:42:37+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/11/25/klahowya/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/a1071.jpga1071Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A1071.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/c72.jpgc72The Klahowya, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, C72.2020-11-25T11:19:19+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/11/18/sultana/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/img_4172-copy.jpgIMG_4172 copyA wider angle view of the upper mine buildings. Alex Weller, 2011.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/img_4152.jpgIMG_4152Buildings from the old Excelda (Thunderbird) mine, perched rather precariously on the mountainside. Alex Weller, 2011.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/easternmineralsurvey_1935_thunderbird_e10-1.jpgEasternMineralSurvey_1935_Thunderbird_E10The view from the Thunderbird property, 1935. British Columbia, Legislative Assembly. H. Sargent, Part E Eastern Mineral Survey District (No 5), Report of the Minister of Mines 1935, (Victoria: Government Printer, 1937), p E 12.2020-11-22T21:28:41+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/11/11/lead-queen/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/minereport1909_leadqueenmine_pk102.jpgMineReport1909_LeadQueenMine_pK102The Lead Queen Mine. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1909, p K 102.2020-11-11T02:43:07+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/11/04/purcell/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/palliser_routemap_1858-copy.jpgPalliser_RouteMap_1858 copyRoutes taken by members of the Palliser Expedition in 1858: Hector's route is in blue (going through Kicking Horse Pass), Palliser and Sulivan's in pink. John Palliser, British North American Exploration Expedition... 1857 & 1858https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/palliser_1859map_routes-copy.jpgPalliser_1859Map_Routes copyRoutes taken by members of the Palliser Expedition in summer 1859. Hector's route is labelled as going north through Howse Pass then south; Palliser and Sullivan crossed the mountains over Kootanie Pass that year. James Hector, Routes of the British North American Exploring Expedition... 1858-59 (John Arrowsmith, 1860).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dawson_1886_selkirkpurcellcrop-copy.jpgDawson_1886_SelkirkPurcellCrop copyThe Selkirk range to the north and Purcell range to the south, as mapped by George Dawson, 1886. Cropped from: George Dawson, Reconnaissance map of a portion of the Rocky Mountains between latitudes 49° & 51°30', Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, 1886.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/britishnorthamericaexploringexpedition_summer1858_johnpalliser_sketch-copy.jpgBritishNorthAmericaExploringExpedition_Summer1858_JohnPalliser_Sketch copyThe first record of Purcell's range, an 1858 sketch map of routes followed when exploring the Rocky Mountains (cropped). John Palliser and James Hector, British North America Exploring Expedition, Topographical Department War Office.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dawson_1886_selkirkpurcellcrop.jpgDawson_1886_SelkirkPurcellCropThe Selkirk range to the north and Purcell range to the south, as mapped by George Dawson, 1886. Cropped from: George Dawson, Reconnaissance map of a portion of the Rocky Mountains between latitudes 49° & 51°30', Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, 1886.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/palliser_1859map_routes.jpgPalliser_1859Map_RoutesRoutes taken by members of the Palliser Expedition in 1859. Hector's route is labelled as going north through Howse Pass then south; Palliser and Sullivan crossed the mountains over Kootanie Pass that year. James Hector, Routes of the British North American Exploring Expedition... 1858-59 (John Arrowsmith, 1860).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/palliser_routemap_1858.jpgPalliser_RouteMap_1858Routes taken by members of the Palliser Expedition in 1858: Hector's route is in blue, Palliser and Sulivan's in pink. John Palliser, British North American Exploration Expedition... 1857 & 1858 (Great Britain, 1859.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/hectorunirecords1853-56_edinburghuniarchives_2.jpgHectorUniRecords1853-56_EdinburghUniArchives_2James Hector's official record of study (1852-56) at the University of Edinburgh. University of Edinburgh Archives.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/trutch1871_map.jpgTrutch1871_MapJ.W. Trutch, Map of British Columbia to the 56th Parallel, North Latitude (London: Edward Stanford, 1871)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fullerton_1872_map.jpgFullerton_1872_mapJ. Bartholomew, British North America. Sheet III. Pacific Coast (British Columbia and Vancouver Island) (A. Fullarton & Co: Edinburgh, 1872)2025-02-23T23:29:06+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/10/28/mitchell/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/img_0520-e1602628440740.jpgIMG_0520From Highway 93 into the Mitchell Range with the "Heart of the Rockies". Photo: Alex Weller, 2012.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/c173.jpgc173The Mitchell Range with the distinct "Heart of the Rockies". Windermere Valley Museum, C173https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/screen-shot-2020-09-28-at-7.29.57-pm.pngMItchellRange_1858MapMitchell's Range as it originally appears on the 1858 map of the Palliser Expedition. Hector's route is in blue. John Palliser; John Arrowsmith, British North American Exploration Expedition: country between the Red River settlement and the Rocky Mountains, showing the various routes of the expedition, under the command of Captn John Palliser, 1857 & 1858. Irish Academic Press.2020-10-28T23:35:52+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/map/2020-10-21T07:42:28+00:00weekly0.6https://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/10/21/brisco/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dawson_1886_reconnaissancemap_selkirkcrop-1.jpgDawson_1886_ReconnaissanceMap_SelkirkCropBrisco Range with the Beaverfoot Range to the north and Stanford Range to the south, 1886. Cropped from George Mercer Dawson, Reconnaissance Map of a Portion of the Rocky Mountains between Latitudes 49° and 51° 30', Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, 1886.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/map_palliser_expedtionroutes1857-1858.pngMap_Palliser_ExpedtionRoutes1857-1858The Brisco Range as labelled on the 1858 map of the routes taken by members of the Palliser Expedition (Hector's route in blue). John Palliser; John Arrowsmith, British North American Exploration Expedition: country between the Red River settlement and the Rocky Mountains, showing the various routes of the expedition, under the command of Captn John Palliser, 1857 & 1858. Irish Academic Press.2020-10-20T08:20:28+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/10/14/sabine/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/screen-shot-2020-10-14-at-4.57.24-pm-e1602648056749.pngScreen Shot 2020-10-14 at 4.57.24 PMMount Sabine from Highway 95 near Canal Flats. Google Image captured Oct 2018.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/a158.jpga158The currently named Mt Sabine (in background), overlooking Columbia Lake. The town of Canal Flats would be out of frame to the right. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, A158.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1872-fullerton-map.jpg1872 Fullerton MapCrop from 1872 map of British Columbia, again placing Mt Sabine at the head of Lussier River. J. Bartholomew, British North America. Sheet III. Pacific Coast (British Columbia and Vancouver Island) (A. Fullarton & Co: Edinburgh, 1872)https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1858arrowsmithmap_cropped.jpg1859ArrowsmithMap_Croppedhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/map-16_sketchmap1858_pallser.jpgMap 16_SketchMap1858_PallserPalliser's original sketch map of his 1858 route through the Rockies, showing first depiction of Mt Sabine. John Palliser and James Hector, British North American exploring Expedition (Topographical Department War Office, 1858).https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/map-424_1858-59_palliser_2.jpgMap 424_1857-58_Palliser_2Published map from the British North American Exploration Expedition, showing Palliser's 1858 route (pink) and original sketched location of Mt Sabinehttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sir_edward_sabine_1788e280931883_cropped.pngSir_Edward_Sabine,_1788–1883_(cropped)Portrait of Sir Edward Sabine (1788-1883). Stephen Pearce, 1850, engraving on mezzotint. National Portrait Gallery.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/the_arctic_council_planning_a_search_for_sir_john_franklin_by_stephen_pearce.jpgThe_Arctic_Council_planning_a_search_for_Sir_John_Franklin_by_Stephen_PearceAn artistic depiction of the British Admiralty's search for Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. Although this pictured council is a fabrication, Edward Sabine was regularly consulted by the Admiralty for advice on how to prosecute the search. He is pictured fourth from the right. Stephen Pierce, "The Arctic Council planning a search for Sir John Franklin," oil on canvas, 1851. For more information see: W Gillies Ross, ‘The Admiralty and the Franklin Search,’ Polar Record 40:215 (2004).2020-10-14T04:01:06+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/10/07/palliser/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/southkananaskispass_ryanthomas_2010_2.jpgSouthKananaskisPass_RyanThomas_2010_2Looking down the Palliser River Valley from the north, with the South Kananakis Pass marked. Photo: Ryan Thomashttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/palliserrivervalley_krisweller_2.jpgPalliserRiverValley_KrisWeller_2The upper Palliser River Valley (Mt King George to the left) with South Kananaskis Pass marked. Photo: Kris Wellerhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/john_palliser.jpgJohn_PalliserThe fantastic hair styling of John Palliser, unknown date.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/johnpalliser_geographicaljournal_june1859_p9.jpgJohnPalliser_GeographicalJournal_June1859_p9Portrait of John Palliser, Royal Geographical Society; painted by his sister Mary after a water-colour by Miss Severn, 1852. Printed in: Irene M Spry, ‘Captain John Palliser and the Exploration of Western Canada,’ The Geographical Journal Vol 125, Part 2 (June 1959), p 150.2020-10-06T19:51:42+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/09/30/gaddes/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/reportwaterrights1914_irrigationflumecolvalorchards_h16-copy.jpgReportWaterRights1914_IrrigationFlumeColValOrchards_H16 copyProvince of British Columbia Report of Water Rights Branch of the Department of Lands for the Year Ending December 31st 1914 (Victoria: Government Printer, 1915), p H16.2020-09-30T06:07:22+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/09/23/toby/2020-09-20T19:13:38+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/09/16/findlay/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/tenderfoot_findlaycreek_p1.jpgTenderfoot_FindlayCreek_p1In 188?, Susan Saint Maur, Duchess of Somerset, and her husband spent a summer up Findlay Creek visiting their friends, the Cochranes. Thomas Cochrane was one of the major investors in the Findlay Creek Hydraulic mine operation.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/generalmapofnorthpacificstatesandterritories_johnmullan_1865-1.jpgGeneralMapOfNorthPacificStatesAndTerritories_JohnMullan_1865desc2020-09-17T06:25:50+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/09/09/neave/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/neave_popularmechanics_march1922_p335-copy.pngNeave_PopularMechanics_March1922_p335 copyH.E. Neave the discoverer of Radium on B.C. Islands, in Francis Dickie, "Radium-Bearing Minerals Found on British Columbia Islands," Popular Mechanics Vol (March 1922), p 335.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/neave_popularmechanics_march1922_p335.pngNeave_PopularMechanics_March1922_p335Henry Neave in Francis Dickie, "Radium-Bearing Minerals Found on British Columbia Islands," Popular Mechanics Vol (March 1922), p 335.2020-09-14T22:51:19+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/09/02/isaac/2020-09-14T22:49:18+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/08/19/brewer/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/mountbrewer_2016_thomas.jpgMountBrewer_2016_ThomasMount Brewer, 2016. Photo: Ryan Thomashttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cranbrookherald_11may1911_p4.jpgCranbrookHerald_11May1911_p4Advertisement for the sale of the Brewer Ranch. Cranbrook Herald, 11 May 1911, p 4.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/spotswoodsamslanding_p232.jpgSpotswoodSamsLanding_p232Sam's Landing, c1890. William Spotswood Green, Among the Selkirk Glaciers (London: Macmillan and Co, 1890), p 232.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a551.jpga551Samuel and Helen Brewer on Chamberlain Ranch, Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a551.2026-03-05T02:45:18+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/07/29/swansea/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/nationalgeographic_p354.jpgNationalGeographic_p354A photo taken from "Swanzey Peak" c.1919. This unusual spelling may conflate Mount Swansea with Mount Swanzy in the Rogers Pass, named after the Revered Swanzy. Or it may be the result of Gleason hearing "Swanzey" and not "Swansea." Herbert Gleason, "On the Trail of a Horse Thief," National Geographic Vol 35 March 1919, p 345.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/img_5538-e1595377847210.jpgIMG_5538Mount Swansea, spring 2007. Photo: Alex Weller2020-09-14T22:33:38+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/08/12/slade/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/minesreport1919_mtslade_n112.jpgMinesReport1919_MtSlade_N112Mount Slade from Paradise Mine. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1919, p N112.2020-08-19T00:11:38+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/08/05/invermere/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/tobycreekbridgesfucollections.jpgTobyCreekBridgeSFUCollectionsToby Canyon Bridge, built 1917. Image MSC130-1197-01 [Toby Canyon Invermere B.C.] courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library. https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bungalowcampsincanpacrock_1921_p10_golfing-1.jpgBungalowCampsinCanPacRock_1921_p10_GolfingTeeing off in front of the Lake Windermere Camp house. The nine hole golf course on Canterbury Point was opened in 1915. it covered about 37 acres with 2,000 yards to play. Bungalow Camps in the Canadian Pacific Rockies (Canadian Pacific Railway, 1921), p 10.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lakedistrictofsouthernbc_p3_invermerehotel_resize.jpgLakeDistrictofSouthernBC_p3_InvermereHotel_resizeThe Invermere Hotel. Lake District of Southern British Columbia (Canadian Pacific Railway, 1920) p 3.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bungalowcampsincanpacrock_1921_p10_tobybridge.jpgBungalowCampsinCanPacRock_1921_p10_TobyBridgeBridge over the Toby Creek Canyon, built in 1917. Bungalow Camps in the Canadian Pacific Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1921, p 10.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/img_8824.jpgIMG_8824An early CVI map of the townsite of Invermere. The Experimental Farm occupied Lot 1008, just south of Rotten Row (5th St) and north of Kathleen Drive (10th St). Keep in mind that street numbers of this map do not correspond to current numbers. Source: Windermere Valley Museum and Archives.2020-08-06T00:24:14+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/07/08/delphine/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cdm.langmann.1-0053514.0230full.jpgcdm.langmann.1-0053514.0230fullUndated [1915-1925] photo of Delphine Hotel, Wilmer. [British Columbia Travel in 1920], Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, View down a street in Wilmer B.C. [p 231]https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/a396-copy.jpga396 copyGeorge and Delphine Starke with their adopted daughter, May. Undated. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a396.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/a1294.jpga1294The Tilbury Glacier (Delphine Glacier), at the head of Delphine Creek. Undated. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a1264.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/a396.jpga396The Starke family, undated. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a396.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/a264.jpga264The Green , Wilmer, residence of the Starke family. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a264.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/delphineglacier1915.jpgDelphineGlacier1915Delphine Glacier, 1915. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1915.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/delphinemine.jpgDelphineMineA pack team going up from Athalmer for ore from the Delphine Mine, 1898. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31 December 1898.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cdm.langmann.1-0053514.0230full.jpgcdm.langmann.1-0053514.0230fullUndated [1915-1925] photo of Delphine Hotel, Wilmer. [British Columbia Travel in 1920], Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs, View down a street in Wilmer B.C. [p 231]2020-07-29T05:18:07+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/07/22/lake-of-the-hanging-glacier/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/nationalgeographic_p255.jpgNationalGeographic_p255A view of the lake with larch trees. Herbert Gleason, National Geographic Vol 35 (1919), p 355.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/weller_lakeofthehangingglacier_2012.jpgWeller_LakeOfTheHangingGlacier_2012Lake of the Hanging Glacier, 2012. Photo: Alex Wellerhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trailriderscanrockies_bullno18_oct1928_p3.jpgTrailRidersCanRockies_BullNo18_Oct1928_p3Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, 1928 trip to the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers. Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Bulletin No 18 October 1928, p 3.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/harmon_downthecolumbia_faceglacier_p72.jpgHarmon_DownTheColumbia_FaceGlacier_p72The large glacier face. Byron Harmon IN Lewis Freeman, Down The Columbia New York: Mead, Dodd and Co, 1921, p 72.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/trailriderscanrockies_bullno18_oct1928_p6.jpgTrailRidersCanRockies_BullNo18_Oct1928_p6Fording Horsethief Creek. Trail Riders in the Canadian Rockies Bulletinhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/harmon_downthecolumbia_icecave_p52.jpgHarmon_DownTheColumbia_IceCave_p52Ice Cave. Byron Harmon IN Lewis Freeman, Down the Columbia New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1921) p 52.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/harmon_downthecolumbia_gathering_p73.jpgHarmon_DownTheColumbia_Gathering_p73Byron Harmon, "Where My Party Foregathered..." Lewis Freeman, Down The Columbia New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1921), p 73.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sierrabulletinjan1915_p240-e1592776409267.jpgSierraBulletinJan1915_p240Herbert W. Gleason, Lake Maye. Plate LXXXIV, Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol 9 Jan 1915): p 240.2020-07-23T19:15:10+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/07/15/starbird/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/nationalgeographic_gleason_1919_p350.jpgNationalGeographic_Gleason_1919_p350H.W. Gleason, Starbird Glacier at the head of Horsethief Creek, c1919. Herbert Gleason, "On the Trail of a Horse Thief,"National Geographic Vol 35 (Jan-June 1919): p 350.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/thecolumbian_wilmer_vol1no6_12sept1911_p3.jpgTheColumbian_Wilmer_Vol1No6_12Sept1911_p3Advertisement, The Columbian (Wilmer), 12 September 1911, p 3.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sierrabulletinjan1915_p244.jpgSierraBulletinJan1915_p244Starbird Glacier with Eyebrow Peak (then Bruce Mountain), 1915. Herbert W Gleason, Sierra Club Bulletin Vol 9, Plate LXXXVI (January 1915), p 244. SierraBulletinJan1915_p2442026-01-10T05:23:57+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/06/10/wilmer/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/wilmer_annualreport1909_pk102.jpgWilmer_AnnualReport1909_pK102Wilmer, c1909. Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1909, p K 102.2020-06-18T03:22:43+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/06/17/munn/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/screen-shot-2020-05-05-at-7.31.06-pm.pngScreen Shot 2020-05-05 at 7.31.06 PMMunn's ill-fated vessel just before she sank. H.T. Munn, Prairie Trails and Arctic by-ways, p 162.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/munn_henrytokemunn_prairietrails_titlepage-e1589431768977.pngMunn_HenryTokeMunn_PrairieTrails_TitlePageHenry Toke Munn, Prairie Trails, Intro page.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/munn_prairietrails_p80.jpgMunn_PrairieTrails_p80Munn was so pleased with his facial hair following his year long Barrens trip that he had a photo taken before shaving. Munn, Prairie Trails, p 80.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/munn_prairietrails_p100-e1589430615504.pngMunn_PrairieTrails_p100Henry Munn on his Klondike travels. Prairie Trails and Arctic By-ways, 1932, p 100.2020-06-23T12:35:53+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/06/03/taynton/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/a655.jpga655William Taynton (sitting). Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a655.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/a141.jpga141Brickmaking operations on the shores of Taynton Bay. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a141.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/a1102.jpga1102Tayntonville in behind construction of the Kootenay Central Railway, c 1914. a1102https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/a148.jpga148Tayntonville alongside Windermere Lake and Taynton Bay. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a148https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lakesidehotelad.jpgLakesideHotelAdAdvertisement for the Lakeside Hotel. The Golden Era, 27 May 1898, p 3.2020-06-03T20:37:36+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/05/27/law/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lawcreek.jpgLawCreekAnnual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31 Dec 1915, p K 88.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vancouver_daily_world_fri__aug_26__1892_-1.jpgVancouver_Daily_World_Fri__Aug_26__1892_Advertisement, Vancouver Daily World, 26 August 1892, p 1.2020-05-27T21:35:06+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/05/20/hyak/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cdm.goldenera.1-0227173.0003full1.jpgcdm.goldenera.1-0227173.0003full(1)The Golden Era, 29 July 1893, p 4.2020-05-20T01:09:08+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/05/13/thunder-hill/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a1408.jpga1408The Thunder Hill Concentrator on the Shores of Columbia Lake. Windermere Valley Museum, a1048https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/armines_1898_thunderhillconcentrator_p1042.jpgARMines_1898_ThunderHillConcentrator_p1042Annual Report to the Minister of Mines for the Year Ending 31st December 1898, p 1042.2020-05-13T02:39:52+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/05/06/sally-serena/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sally_farnham_lccn2014712355.jpgSally_Farnham_LCCN2014712355Sally James Farnham, 1921. Photo: Library of Congress2020-05-06T23:57:02+00:00monthlyhttps://inthewindermere.home.blog/2020/04/29/hector/https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a750.jpga750Hector's Gorge Viewpoint in Kootenay National Park. Windermere Valley Museum and Archives, a750https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/img_1132-e1587602644913.jpgIMG_1132A pod of Hector's dolphins in the waves, taken from shore. These dolphins are small: about 1.5m long. Alex Weller, 2018.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/hectorsdolphin2-e1582597644324.jpgHectorsDolphin2Hector's Dolphin, illustrated by John Buchanan and published in 1873 in Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Vol V. Royal Society of New Zealand.https://inthewindermere.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jameshector.jpgJamesHectorStudio Portrait of Sir James Hector, c1863. Taken by John McGregor, Dunedin. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. 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