From Castlegar to Nelson and Slocan Lake - Royal BC Museum - AAAA1079

This video clip continues our West Kootenays road trip in the mid-1940s. It highlights Castlegar, power generation on the Kootenay River, Nelson, and Slocan Lake. (There's an unexpected little vignette showing young women at work in a Nelson matchblock factory!) The clip comprises excerpts from "Kootenay West", a BC government travelogue filmed in 1944-45 and copyrighted in 1948. The source film is BC Archives AAAA1079 at the Royal BC Museum. Used by permission.