Research Catalog

Title

Fort Steele : gold rush to boom town / Naomi Miller.

Author

Miller, Naomi, 1927-

Publication

Surrey, B.C. : Heritage House, 2002.

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Description

240 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > Fort Steele
• Villes frontières > Fort Steele
• Vie des pionniers > Fort Steele
• Fort Steele (B.C.) > History
• Fort Steele (C.-B.) > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Kootenay Territory (Before 1864) -- 2. The Gold Rush (1864-65) -- 3. Early Settlers in the District (1864-1880): Dave Griffiths ; Michael Phillipps ; The Galbraiths ; The Mathers ; Thomas Thane McVittie ; J.E. Humphreys ; Captain Parker ; Frederick Paget Norbury -- 4. Grohman and His Canal Dream (1882-1890) -- 5. Indian Affairs (1874-1887) -- 6. The Mounties Arrive (1887) ; Settlement of the Troops ; Chief Isadore's Land Settlement ; Life Among the Troops -- 7. The Mounties Leave (1888) -- 8. Early Tourists to the East Kootenays (1887) -- 9. St. Eugene Mission -- 10. The Indian Agency's Early Years -- 11. A Change in Momentum (1892-93) -- 12. The Flood, the Schools, and Optimism (1894) -- 13. Church, Concerts, and a Community Newspaper (1895) -- 14. A Thriving Community (1896) -- 15. Home and Garden, 1890s Style -- 16. Exciting Times (1897) -- 17. Building (1897) -- 18. Other Headlines (1897) -- 19. Mining -- 20. Busy Times (1898) -- 21. Building the B.C. Southern Railway (1897-1899) -- 22. Chin Up (1899) -- 23. Patriotic Fervor, 1900 Style -- 24. Forte Steele Starts to Fade (1901-03) -- 25. Cranbrook Gains, Fort Steele Loses: (1904-1906) -- Epilogue: (1906-1961): Miss Adelaide Bailey and John Fingal Smith ; Robert Leslie Thomas Galbraith ; Chin Lum's Family ; Robert and Mary Jane Mather ; Dr. Hugh Watt ; Kershaw Family ; William Adolph Baille-Grohman ; William Astor Drayton.

ISBN

1894384385

LCCN

^^2002437619

OCLC

49047724

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library