Bonnington Falls, West Kootenay Power and Light Company
- I-77805
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- [1900]
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Bonnington Falls, West Kootenay Power and Light Company
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Boyd Campbell Affleck came to the Kootenay/Arrow Lakes region in 1907 from Ontario. He took up a surveying job near Nakusp. He discusses settlers and speculators. He describes Fruitva;le in 1907; the development; the early settlers. Then he discusses irrigation and then more on Fruitvale; the impact of WWI on the region; fruit grown; a picnic in the 1930s; settlers; clearing land; and the Fruitvale town site. Mr. Affleck settled near Fruitvale in 1918; lost his hand and was forced back into survey work. He surveyed the town of Salmo. He offers an anecdote about the red light ladies of Erie and then offers more about Fruitvale; the impact of the Trail smelter; and recalls the forest fire of 1939. TRACK 2: Mr. Affleck continues with more on the forest fire. Then he dis;cusses the Trail smelter; effects on fruit farms; Columbia Gardens and survey work at Nelson. He offers more on Fruitvale and Nelson in 1907; transportation; the rivalry between the CPR and GN boats.; He tells a story of how Kaslo tried to steal the Nelson Board of Trade in the 1890s. He discusses the Fruitvale power system in the 1920s; Nelson City Light. He describes the rivalry between West Kootenay Power and Light, and Nelson City Light.
Camp Mckinney, W. Kootenay P. Co. House
The item is a b&w photograph of the West Kootenay Power Company house at Camp McKinney.
Hydro-electric plant, West Kootenay Power and Light Co., Bonnington, BC
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John H. Jerome remembers the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, and the South Slocan region. He came to work for the company in 1916 at the age of eighteen. He describes the West Kootenay Power and Light Company from 1898; modern hydro and dam development; Mr. Jerome as an operator for forty-seven years; the past versus the present; the people of the South Slocan region; early roads and transportation; settlement around 1912; the eccentric British immigrants; the South Slocan Chalet; the Doukhobors; mines and the Nelson City Power Plant. [TRACK 2: blank.]
Kootenay River Valley : Kootenay Landing to Bonners Ferry
Part of Archives cartographic collection
Shows reclaimed land in Kootenay River Valley in British Columbia and Idaho. Extension of dykes in Township 8, Kootenay District, shown in ms.
Plumbing line, West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Ltd., near Grand Forks
Poles erected as well as on ground. Workers in foreground, horses in background.
Raising poles on line, West Kootenay Power and Light Co. Ltd., near Grand Forks
Workers raising pole. Some men on horseback watching.
West Kootenay Power & Light Co. : Bonnington Falls, Nelson
The item is a b&w photograph of the exterior of the Bonnington Falls power house in Nelson.
West Kootenay Power & Light Co. : Bonnington Falls, Nelson
The item is a b&w photograph of the Bonnington Falls power house in Nelson.