Pynelogs Cultural Center (Invermere)
Pynelogs, “is picturesque in the extreme. It is built of rough-hewn logs and faces south, with a glorious prospect of lake and mountain from its windows.”28
Pynelogs
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Firlands
Firlands Ranch, East Firlands (train station, 1914-1933), Firland Close (Radium Hot Springs)
The name “Firlands” first appears in print in early June 1899.51 The reason for choosing the name is unknown.
Windermere Hotel
The Windermere Hotel
The Windermere Hotel was, “The neatest and best appointed house in East Kootenay, fitted up with every modern convenience, baths, electric bells, etc.”24
Marion
Marion Creek, flowing into Columbia Lake; Mount Marion
The Marion didn’t spend much time on the Upper Columbia, but she was one of the most well travelled steamboats in the Kootenays.
Hardie
Hardie Creek (flowing into Columbia Lake); Hardie Creek Road
A veritable parade of Hardie siblings lived in and/or visited the Windermere Valley from the mid 1880s into the early 1900s.
Dunbar
Dunbar Creek, Dunbar Lake (local name for Big Fish Lake)
Other names: South Fork of Salmon River
Dunbar’s real estate dealings in the Windermere Valley are rather murky, and it is unknown how or why his attention was drawn to the area.
In The Windermere 