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Newspapers and the Slocan
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Newspapers and the Slocan

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Newspapers and the Slocan

By admin|2025-08-25T14:05:40-07:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Booklets|Tags: Boosterism, Eight-hour-day strike, Eli Carpenter, Flood of 1894, Forest fires, K & S Railway, Kaslo, Kootenay history, Mining camps newspapers, N & S Railway, Nakusp, New Denver, Orange Order in B.C., Prospectors, R. T. Lowery, Sandon fire, slocan history, Slocan miners, Three Forks, Transporting Slocan ore|

by Cole Harris Foreword by Sean Arthur Joyce Speculative energy drove a mining rush and also founded newspapers. Including Kaslo in the east and Nakusp in the west, seventeen newspapers were published in and around the Slocan just during the decade after the first silver finds in September, 1891. Just over a year [...]

Beginnings of the Bosun Ranch
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Beginnings of the Bosun Ranch

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Beginnings of the Bosun Ranch

By admin|2025-08-25T14:36:34-07:00September 6th, 2016|Categories: Booklets|Tags: Cowichan Valley, Eli Carpenter, Kootenay history, Land clearing, mining history, New Denver, Pioneering, Sandon, slocan history, Slocan Valley|

Reminiscences of Joseph Colebrook Harris with an Introduction by Cole Harris Beginnings at the Bosun Ranch booklet cover Early in 1944 my mother, who had a morning show on CBC Radio, asked my grandfather, Joseph Colebrook Harris, to write about his early years in British Columbia. She hoped that his accounts [...]