General Archives | Stories Beneath the Surface

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 […]

Stanley Hall and Daughter Joyce at Hall’s Landing, 1960

Stanley Hall, along with his brothers and cousins, was the second generation to farm at Hall’s Landing. In this photograph, taken in 1960, he is holding his baby […]

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. […]

Hall Brothers’ Homestead, circa 1895

Willie, John, Dave, and Noah Hall at their first log home at the homestead at Hall’s Landing, circa 1895. John is the father of the Hall brothers, who […]

Cattle at Hall’s Landing, 1967

One of the last photographs of the meadows and land at Hall’s Landing, taken by Barbara Hall in June of 1967. On the land that had already been […]

Stanley Hall and Jack Hall Piling Stumps to Burn, 1961

Piling dried stumps from clearing land on the Hall Bros. ranch, 1961.

Stanley Hall with horses, 1956

Stanley Hall of Hall’s Landing with his team of work horses, Bess and Girly, 1956. His mother, Violet Hall, is standing to his right.

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 […]

Cathy English Interview – Coming to the Valley, 2019

An interview with Cathy English, curator of Revelstoke Museum and Archives, in which she discusses the settlement of the valley. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. […]

Cathy English Interview – Columbia River Treaty

An interview with Cathy English, curator of the Revelstoke Museum and Archives, where she discusses the Columbia River Treaty. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo […]

Opposite Akolkolex Creek, 1967

Estelle Dickey took this photograph on November 20, 1967. She wrote, “This is on the road opposite Akolkolex (Isaac) Creek. There are miles and miles of stumps like […]