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St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook

St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook
A view of the St. Eugene Hospital, looking NW with King Street passing to the left side of photo. The back inscription indicates "nearly 200 people" ...

Fernie, Hotel in Fernie, B.C.

Fernie, Hotel in Fernie, B.C.
A frontal view of the Fernie Hotel in 1914....

Bailey and Battensby Sawmill

Bailey and Battensby Sawmill
The Murdoch Bailey and Battensby sawmill situated at the Fisher place at Albreda, where the Lenko house is now. Crew of men pictured are Jules Frye, M...

Castlegar Street View - 1929

Castlegar Street View - 1929
Eremenko's comments on Castlegar, BC. Written on back of photo - "Looking down the road from RR bridge to the ferry crossing about one half mile away...

Dance Pavilion on Eremenko Property

Dance Pavilion on Eremenko Property
Eremenko's comments on Castlegar, BC. "Dance Pavilion. Ladies posed in gateway."...

Children

Children's Playground (Rotary Park) Cranbrook, BC
Used hand coloured real photo postcard of Children's Playground (Rotary Park) Cranbrook, BC taken from intersection of Louis St. (1st St. S) & Norbury...

St. Eugene Hospital, Cranbrook, BC

St. Eugene Hospital, Cranbrook, BC
The St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook, BC. This was a nursing hospital run by the Catholic Sisters of Providence. The last class of nurses was gradua...

Ponderosa Motel, Cranbrook, British Columbia Canada

Ponderosa Motel, Cranbrook, British Columbia Canada
Unused colour chrome postcard of Ponderosa Motel (Panabode construction) Cranbrook BC taken from highway facing East with Mt. Baker in background. Ad...

Postcard - Cranbrook

Postcard - Cranbrook's Gyro Swimming Pool
A 1931 overview of Cranbrook's Gyro Pool shortly after it was completed. This was billed as the largest outdoor pool in Western Canada....

Prospector Newspaper Staff, Cranbrook, B.C.

Prospector Newspaper Staff, Cranbrook, B.C.
Photo of the Cranbrook Prospector newspaper staff, showing founder A.B. Grace and granddaughter Gracie Higgins. Grace founded the Prospector at Fort ...

Hi Lite Cafe

Hi Lite Cafe
Owned by Cecil Watson, was previously the Greyhound Bus Stop as well as Rigby's Drugstore & Cafe before becoming the Hi Lite Cafe. The Hi-Lite is sti...

Castlegar Station Museum

Castlegar Station Museum
Chris Foster, one of the contributors to the development of the museum and a teacher at Stanley Humphries Secondary School....

Pacific Enercon Inc. at Grand Forks

Pacific Enercon Inc. at Grand Forks
Inside Pacific Enercon Inc. insulation plant in Grand Forks, BC. Plant converts old slag from the Granby smelter into insulation. Slag sales act as Gr...

Bull River Bridge

Bull River Bridge
Group with saddle horses on a bridge across a canyon, possibly the Bull River bridge. (Mahone)...

Elliot Orville Peever

Elliot Orville Peever
RCMP member Elliot Orville "Charlie" Peever, at the police barracks, Red Pass. He was transferred to Invermere to head the detachment there 1957-1960...

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