Fort Steele (B.C.)

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A place of refuge

The item is a composite print of a travelogue from 1969. It shows the summer and winter activities in the Columbia Valley of the East Kootenay region. A sequence on the area's history is followed by shots of various approaches to the Valley, and footage of Fernie, ranching, wildlife, skiing, the Kimberley Snow Fiesta, snowmobiling, fishing (ice & stream), the Kootenay Trout Hatchery, Wasa Lake, a modern paddlewheeler, water skiing, the restored pioneer community of Fort Steele, mountain climbing in the Bugaboos, trail riding, provincial campsites, Radium Hot Springs and Fairmont.

Alexander and Elizabeth Ritchie interview

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alexander Ritchie describes how he came from Calgary in 1896; drove a stage between Fort Steele and Windermere for a few months; went back to Calgary, but returned to Windermere in 1898; worked on ranches and mined until 1910; was part owner of CVI [Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands, Limited] with [R.R.] Bruce for five years; broke up with Bruce and eventually owned the whole company and site; CPR board of directors were the driving force behind CVI; KCRR [Kootenay Central Railway] reached Athalmer in 1912; the Paradise Mine and some anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie continue;s by discussing Fort Steele as a "wide open town" in the 1890s and the stage run from Fort Steele to Windermere. He then discusses democrats (i.e., type of wagon).

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ritchie continues his description of the Fort Steele to Windermere stage run; more anecdotes; Windermere as the earliest settlement in the area; Mr. Ritchie's several trips across the Rockies and taking horses east to sell in Alberta. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie describes an incident at Banff with Indians and selling horses as far north as Grande Prairie. Then Mrs. Lizzie Ritchie describes how she came from London to Winnipeg in 1904; her first husband was Charles Burgess, who was bookkeeper for a lumber company; Waldo as the first ghost town; and some anecdotes about the lumber industry.

Alfie Kershaw interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alfie H. Kershaw describes various old timers at Fort Steele. He was born in Fort Steele while the town was in decline; only sawmills and prospecting were keeping it alive; his father, Henry Kershaw, was the Fort Steele postmaster; the Lum family; anecdotes about old timers Dave Griffiths; Red McLeod and Moses McCoy. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Andy Russell interview

CALL NUMBER: T4105:0043.1 RECORDED: Millarville (Alta.), 1984-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Grew up with a passion for reading, the mountains and horses. Bert Rigall, international reputation, taught Andy guiding, childhood accident, started in 1907, operated out of Waterton Park, 1910. Wilderness summer trips, fifty horses, covered from Flathead Valley to Kananaskis. Major five month trip, Fort Steele to Pine Pass in 1911. Guides license obtained in 1936. Guiding territory in BC was lower Flathead Valley and east tributaries, 1946 to 1960. Used local BC guides. Selective hunting for bighorn sheep. Providing a service. High international outfitters rating. Frank Dvorak. Exclusive outfitting rights in Waterton Park, 110 horses. Recollections and perceptions of grizzly. TRACK 2: Guided famous hunting writers. Wilderness photography. Exposure/experience with big game, horses. Snowstorm problems. Close calls climbing. His film "Grizzly Country": lecture tour for 11 years, making it. Career thoughts. Description of Frenchie Riviere; origins, trailed horses to Fort St. John.

CALL NUMBER: T4105:0043.2 RECORDED: Millarville (Alta.), 1984-10 SUMMARY: Frenchie Riviere (continued). Jim Riviere, George Gladstone's stream crossing story. Crowsnest outfits; Frank Dvorak, Martin and Mike Baher, Vensel Dvorak. Leo Rutledge. Recollections of recent conservation battle with oil companies.

Beryl Lum interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Lum discusses the pioneer's life in a cabin at Fort Steele; Mrs. Lum came from England to Victoria then on to Lake Louise; to Fort Steele where she still lives in the cabin which; was once the home of Michael Phillips; the Galbraith brothers; husband, George Lum, was a Chinese packer and his wife [?] was a Hope Indian; used to trade commodities for horses with Stoney Indians; Lum was lured west by the world of Zane Grey; after the 1880s gold rush, Fort Steele was a lumbering district; anecdotes. TRACK 2: Game was everywhere in the old days and bands of forty to fifty horses were not uncommon; Mrs. Lum had seven children; incidents with her husband's horses; sleigh riding at minus thirty degrees; hardships of freezing weather; her children had a strict upbringing.

Centennial travellers

The item consists of a documentary film in two parts. To mark Canada's hundredth anniversary, Canadian young people exchanged visits. This film follows a group of Québec boys and girls, aged thirteen to sixteen, who travelled 4800 kilometres west to Cranbrook, British Columbia. The easy friendliness between the young people of two cultures inspires optimism. (NLC description).

Colin Sinclair interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Colin M. Sinclair recalls his family's first days in the East Kootenays; born in Tobacco Plains, Montana and moved to BC in 1900; his grandfather, James Sinclair, was shot during an India;n uprising in 1856; there was a change from open forest to thick undergrowth between trees in the Kootenays between 1900 to 1960 because of logging operations; change in the ambitions and activities o;f the Indians; relations between whites and Indians in the area were always good; the Spokane Flyer was a CPR train; Michael Phillips; Elko was a wild town at the turn of the century; first road at Fort Steele; no farming east of Grasmere. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Correspondence and other material

Letters from Thomas I. Dunn to George Ironside Dunn discussing family matters, mining conditions in the Kootenays, and the managing of social clubs (T.I.D. was manager of the Rossland Club); notes and letters.

Correspondence and other material

Letters from Thomas I. Dunn to George Ironside Dunn discussing family matters, mining conditions in the Kootenays, and the managing of social clubs (T.I.D. was manager of the Rossland Club); notes and letters.

Correspondence and other material

Correspondence from Thomas I. Dunn to George Ironside Dunn discussing family matters, mining conditions in the Kootenays, and the managing of social clubs (T.I.D. was manager of the Rossland Club); notes and letters. Photograph albums have been deposited with Visual Records.

Cranbrook County Court letters of administration

  • GR-2248
  • Series
  • 1900-1924

Letters of administration from Fort Steele, 1900-1905 (with 2 entries from the Supreme Court) and from Cranbrook, 1906-1924.

British Columbia. County Court (Cranbrook)

Cranbrook Supreme Court cause books

  • GR-1833
  • Series
  • 1908-1968

This series consists of cause books from Fort Steele Supreme Court, 1900-1908 and from Cranbrook Supreme Court, 1908-1956. Attached to the covers of volume 1 is a list of trust companies registered in 1914; instructions regarding estates of alien enemies, 1915; and British Columbia Gazette excerpts regarding Workmen's Compensation, 1902 and 1904. The books contain primarily civil matters.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Cranbrook)

Cranbrook Supreme Court Letters of administration and letters probate

  • GR-2548
  • Series
  • 1906-1979

The series consists of letters of administration and letters probate from Fort Steele, 1906-1909 and from the Supreme Court of Cranbrook, 1906-1978. It includes Form A, Form B, and Form C, each arranged by date of filing. Form A are grants of letters probate in which the deceased individual named the executor of their estate in their will. Form B are grants of letters of administration in which the deceased left a will but named no executor, or the executor was unable to fill the role, so another individual is named. Form C are grants of letters of administration in which the deceased left no will (died intestate), so an individual is named as executor.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Cranbrook)

Fort Steele mining recorder records

  • GR-0219
  • Series
  • 1895-1918

The series consists of records created by the Fort Steele Mining Recorder between 1895 and 1918. The records cover the area surrounding Fort Steele and along the St. Mary's River in the Fort Steele Mining Division of the East Kootenay District. The records include applications under the Mineral Act for mining claims and certificates of work; notices from miners filed with mining recorder; and transcribed copies of mineral claim transfers and conveyances, primarily in the form of bills of sale.

British Columbia. Mining Recorder (Fort Steele)

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