The Beat Goes On: Ladysmith's History and Music The Beat Goes On: Ladysmith’s History & Music Ladysmith & District Historical Society
Built in 1900, the Transfer Wharf was designed for the transfer of railway rolling stock brought by barge from the British Columbia mainland onto the railway system on […]
The Kuper island Residential School operated from 1889 to the 1970s on Penelakut Island, formerly known as Kuper Island.
On May Day 1913, thousands of miners, their families and union supporters converged on Ladysmith for the largest parade and display of community solidarity the Island had ever […]
Moses Webley was one of the younger persons killed in the mines at Extension in 1909 – his death was a separate accident from that which claimed 32 […]
The Finn Hall was one of the community halls in early Ladysmith, which were used for community events such as concerts and dances.
The large white building on the Esplanade was one of the first to be built in Ladysmith. Isaac Gould ran a store on the ground floor and rented […]
View of the town looking south: at left, the E&N railway track leading to the newly constructed two-story station. Only the Esplanade, Roberts Street and First Avenue are […]
This photo shows a Ladysmith Road Crew grading First Avenue by hand and with horses hitched to split log drag graders.
Ladysmith B.C., was planned by the industrialist James Dunsmuir to house the miners who worked his coal mines at Extension, 16 kilometers to the north. Located on the […]
A boy looks on as a steam engine, dark smoke billowing from its chimney and white steam from its whistle, shunts loaded wooden coal cars onto an elevated […]
The background features numerous single and two-storied wooden town buildings at the same level as a steam engine delivering coal-laden mine cars onto an elevated track leading to […]
Ladysmith City Band is shown here in front of spectators at the Agricultural Hall fairgrounds. In November 1902, as reported in the Ladysmith Ledger, the band was widely […]
