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Early New Denver
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Early New Denver

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Early New Denver

By admin|2025-08-25T14:06:55-07:00October 19th, 2018|Categories: Booklets|Tags: Cole Harris, Henning von Krogh, History, mining history, New Denver, Pioneer Life, Pioneering, Slocan Valley|

by Henning von Krogh & Cole Harris This is an account of a West Kootenay village, New Denver, during its first decade. The almost instant creation of a mining rush, it began in a speculative frenzy, then grew much more slowly than its promoters has hoped. Yet, unlike most of the townsites created [...]

Martin Fry, Frontiersman
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Martin Fry, Frontiersman

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Martin Fry, Frontiersman

By admin|2025-08-25T14:08:07-07:00October 19th, 2018|Categories: Booklets|Tags: Biography, British Columbia, Colonists, Frontier Life, History, Martin Fry, Pioneer Life, slocan history, Slocan History Series, Slocan River Valley|

Joseph Colebrook Harris with an Introduction by Cole Harris Sometime in 1927, my grandfather, J.C. (Joseph Colebrook) Harris, began to think of writing a history of the Slocan mining camp, and contacted some of the prospectors and miners who had been in the Slocan in 1891, the year the Slocan rush began. Of [...]