Lost Kootenays: A History in Pictures

BCHF's Mark Forsythe interviews Greg Nesteroff, one of the authors of "Lost Kootenays: A History in Pictures" about the book. How did the book come about, and what can photographs tell us about the past?
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[@degrootklyde6895]

Thank you Greg and Mark for your efforts creating interest and popularity in our local history and our connections with our roots living within the Koots. Happy to purchase your book for my father on his 89'th birthday . We will all enjoy it immensely .

[@mightyfraserriver977]

Thank you very much for this. I love our history and am going to travel every inch of BC in my life time

[@texadian3392]

During my lifetime, my grandparents lived just outside Cranbrook, BC. The entire region is definitely one of our national Canadian treasures!

I'm commenting here about a photo posted to the Lost Kootenays Facebook page as I'm not a Facebook subscriber. Photo is captioned "This fascinating and rare early shot of CPR's (Nakusp & Slocan Rwy) is thought to be at the Rosebery Barge Slip. But we now think it might be Nakusp. What are your thoughts?" The mountain skylines and hill shapes match a Google Earth View from the Rosebery Dock site in such detail that it couldn't be anywhere else. The valley in the background is that of Dennis Creek, a tributary of Wilson Creek.

[@SoulGlowHealing]

Very interesting thanks for putting this together!

[@brittneynicoledustin8268]

There's no blackfeet in Canadian history

[@user-wo3yj6lx6q]

David Thompson would say you were misinformed.

[@leoross5777]

forscythe looks exactly like a guard i met while 'summering' for 6 months at the old burnaby BC jail, oakalla. it was back in '86 so i gotta wonder if his father was a guard ot maybe even a vancouver cop?