RBCM Archives

East Kootenay history : D.A. MacDonald, Alex and Elizabeth Ritchie, 1962

AAAB7155
Item
1962-12-09 [date recorded]

Part of Archives discrete item collection

RECORDED: Cranbrook (B.C.), 1962-12-09 SUMMARY: An oral history interview about early days in the East Kootenay region. Begins with D.A. MacDonald giving a brief chronological outline of key events in the region leading up to settlement in the 1890s. This is followed by an interview with Alex and Elizabeth Ritchie, who settled in the area in the 1890s. The Ritchies were residents of Windermere and Cranbrook.

Kootenay east

V1989:40/002.01
Item
1989

Part of Archives research collection

The item is a video copy of a travelogue from 1944-1945. It shows Revelstoke to Golden over the Big Bend Highway, and south to the U.S. border and Creston, with views of Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and southeastern BC. Footage of interest includes: Revelstoke station and rail yards with locomotives; coal mines and miners at Fernie; coke ovens at Michel; farming in Creston area.

Kootenay King mine, ca. 1929

F1985:17
Item
[ca. 1929]

Part of Archives moving images collection

The item is a reel of unedited film footage. It shows a visit to a mining site on a steep hillside in a mountainous area, with shots of men posing outside mine entrance and cabin, and driving away in a car.

Centennial travellers

F2004:01/001-002
Item
1965

Part of Archives moving images collection

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).

Big game camera holiday

V1990:21/002.01
Item
[1957-1962]

Part of Archives moving images collection

The item consists of nature videos. Fictional narrator uses motion picture camera to track big game in Tweedsmuir Park and Cassiar district. Subjects include mountain caribou, mountain goats, grizzly bear, California bighorn sheep, whitetail deer, elk, stone sheep, moose and Osborn caribou.

Valley of a thousand peaks

V1990:21/003.01-02
Item
[1978]

Part of Archives moving images collection

The item is a travelogue video. It showcases the East Kootenay region and the Rockies. Includes footage of Cranbrook (Sam Steele Days), a rodeo, the recreated pioneer village of Fort Steele, Kimberley July Fest activities, Invermere, Yoho National Park (including Emerald Lake, Natural Bridge & Takakkaw Falls), mountain hiking, autumn scenes, fishing, winter, skiing and heli-skiing.