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History
Mary Schäffer, Mountain Woman
June 15, Invermere –
Wildsight is proud to present Mary Schäffer, Mountain Woman, a 50-minute multimedia historical enactment created by Shirley Truscott from Banff. The event will take place ...
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Kootenae House National Historic Site
Kootenae House National Historic Site. (CVGuide photos) The visitor to Kootenae House National Historic Site stands in a seemingly empty field, surrounded by majestic mountains which overlook the peaceful ...
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Conrad Kain interpretive sign
The Conrad Kain Centennial Society has planted another interpretive sign in the valley celebrating Canada’s premiere historic mountain guide. This time, mountaineer Conrad Kain, who was based in Wilmer ...
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Brisco and Spillimacheen
If you drive south from Golden, along Highway 95, amid tall stands of Douglas fir and lodgepole pine, sprinkled with aspen groves, you will come upon the communities of Spillimacheen and Brisco. Nestled ...
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Lot 48 at Columbia Lake to be preserved
The Nature Conservancy of Canada’s plan to preserve Lot 48 at Columbia Lake has received a $1 million boost from Columbia Basin Trust (CBT), a significant step toward the $7.2 million estimated cost ...
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Fort Steele
During the 1864 Kootenay gold rush it was called Galbraith’s Ferry, but twenty-four years later Fort Steele was renamed in honor of Sam Steele of the Northwest Mounted Police, who had become a hero ...
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Fairmont Indian baths
On a little knoll about a minute’s hike up from the Fairmont Hot Springs parking lot, lies a real treasure. Sitting on a plateau of tufa rock coloured orange, brown, green and blue by the streams of ...
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The ‘stolen church’
Probably the most romantic tale of love and crime in the days of the pioneers of the Columbia Valley is that of the ‘stolen church’ in Windermere. St. Peter’s Anglican Church was built in 1887 in ...
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