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Clip from BC Hydro Film “Action on the Columbia”

Columbia River Treaty clips from BC Hydro film “Action on the Columbia.” Transcript of Narration: [Horn instrumental music] (White screen fades out to dam generating) At low river […]

Snowslide at Greenslide, 1936

Greenslide, about 16 km south of Revelstoke, was identified as an avalanche path in the 1890s when the Canadian Pacific Railway was building a branch line from Revelstoke […]

Burning the Notice of Extinction, 2022

Shelly Boyd, Sinixt/Arrow Lakes Facilitator for Colville Confederated Tribes, is seen here at Nelson, B.C., June 10, 2022, throwing a rolled document into a specially built fire barrel. […]

Columbia News Letter, Issue no. 4, December 1, 1964

Between August 28, 1964, and June 2, 1969, BC Hydro published 30 Columbia News Letters distributed to people living in the areas to be affected by the construction […]

Drawings from Begbie View Elementary students, 2016

Students from a Grade 3 and 4 class at Begbie View Elementary in Revelstoke visited Revelstoke Museum and Archives in 2016 and learned that the flats that they […]

Richard Desautel and Family in Nelson, 2022

In 2010, Richard Desautel, a Sinixt man from Inchelium, Washington, crossed the border into Canada and shot an elk for ceremonial purposes without a valid Canadian hunting license. […]

W.A.C. Bennett, at the Opening of Hugh Keenleyside Dam, 1969

Premier W.A.C. Bennett speaking on stage at the opening ceremony of BC Hydro’s Hugh Keenleyside Dam on the Columbia River near Castlegar, B.C., June 9, 1969.

People at the Opening of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam, 1969

Attendees arriving for the opening ceremony of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam just north of Castlegar on June 9, 1969.

Farewell Minto, 1954

The dredge on the Arrow Lakes decorated to salute the SS Minto on its final voyage, April 24, 1954. The banner reads: ‘Farewell “MINTO”. Well done old girl!!!’”

Ukrainian Dancers, 1940

These Ukrainian men from Mount Cartier performed the dance “Arken” at an International Folk Dance program at the YMCA in Revelstoke on March 21, 1940. The dancers are […]

Dance at Sidmouth, circa 1955

The Sidmouth community hall was a popular place for dances and get-togethers. Teenage musicians from Sidmouth and Arrowhead often provided the music for the dancers.

Kate Borucz Interview – Modernization of the Columbia River Treaty

Kate Borucz, executive director of the North Columbia Environmental Society, discusses the modernization of the Columbia River Treaty. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is […]