Subject file contains: clippings and copies of published material; copies of original records; a photocopy of a map; a copy of a master’s thesis called “A History of the Cranbrook District of East Kootenay” by Sylvia L. Thrupp; handwritten notes; a document titled “A Brief History on Kootenay Lands and Territory” by Vi Birdstone for the Kootenay Indian Area Council (1988); a June 1992 issue of Ktuq??qakyam; and related documents.
File also includes some original records, including: a document titled “Kootenay Indians,” which consists of a schedule of religious events for St. Eugene’s Mission and Creston; and a mass program compiled by Wilfred Scott, OMI, for Fort Steele, Wardner, Galloway, Tobacco Plains, Creston, Galloway. These records pertain to Cranbrook, BC.