The Annual
Greenwood Bird Survey
BY: BG EDITOR
May 16 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Today we offer the third edition of the annual Greenwood Bird Survey, updating the progress of local birdwatchers.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
May 09 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on a hike up Ingram Mountain, with beautiful views of the Boundary.
Scottish Community
in Greenwood, Pt. 2
BY: BG EDITOR
May 02 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Throughout the 1800s, the sport of Curling flourished throughout Canada, thanks to the expat Scotsmen who settled there.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on an early spring hike up Deer Mountain (so called by the locals).
Persons of Note:
F. J. Finucane, Part 2
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 18 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — While managing bank business, Mr. F. J. Finucane found time to involve himself in many other business & social activities.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 11 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us along on a picturesque hike up Buckhorn Ridge in Greenwood.
The Early History
of the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 04 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Phoenix mining sites are historical places of interest that all Greenwood residents and visitors should put on their trekking list.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 28 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler shows us one of the oldest ranches in the Boundary – the Cox Family Ranch, over 100 years old.
The Value
of Miners
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 21 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Though you can't eat ore, in 1890s Greenwood, some believed that mining was the only occupation that deserved attention.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 14 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler walks us through the seasons to Frank and Edith Winter's ranch in Boundary Valley.
A Provincial Mineralogist's
Mining History
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 07 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — With the assistance of Greenwood resident John D. Galloway, some of B.C.'s important mining history went down on the record books.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 29 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on a walking trip to the Myer's Wetlands, just south of Rock Creek on Myncaster Road.
The Circus Comes
to Greenwood
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Arriving by rail in Greenwood, the Gentry Bros. circus train unloaded everything from dogs and ponies to monkeys and elephants.
The
Poseur
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — "I have watched the modern lion with admirers round him sighin'…" — A literary poke at the world's poseurs and dandies, by Walt Mason.
St. Valentines &
Sweetheart Kisses
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 08 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Even in the dusty early days of the Boundary there was no shortage of romance, and heartthrob of stories on budding romances.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 01 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A stunning photographic collection by Brigitte Huerzeler of a snowshoe trip from Marshall Lake to Dacha Cabin.
Persons of Note:
The Leckie Brothers
BY: BG EDITOR
Jan 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — "He passed along the most beaten paths of land, sea and air… of which the majority of humankind know nothing…"
Scottish Community
in Greenwood, Pt. 3
BY: BG EDITOR
May 09 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Scottish residents of early Greenwood gave their non-Scots neighbours many opportunities to enjoy the music of their homeland.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
May 02 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us along on a springtime hike in the greening hills above Midway.
Scottish Community
in Greenwood
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Like all of Canada, Greenwood enjoyed a great deal of benefit from the many persons of Scottish descent who came to settle here.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 18 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Today we hike to an old mine above Greenwood, near Lind Creek Road, with photographer Brigitte Huerzeler.
Greenwood Persons of
Note: F. J. Finucane
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 11 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — The story of Francis J. Finucane, one of early Greenwood's notable citizens, is also a story about the history of banks in our city.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Apr 04 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A collection of views from the historic City of Phoenix and Phoenix Mountain, from photographer Brigitte Huerzeler.
Greenwood's
First Ambulance
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 28 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Despite the need from early days, it wasn't until January 1906 that Greenwood took delivery of its first ambulance.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 21 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler shares a 'telling collection': signs of times past & present, hither and yon in the Boundary.
Pandemic History
in Canada
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 14 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — There were two major pandemics experienced by the residents of early Greenwood — the Spanish and Russian flu.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Mar 07 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on a hike to see the ruins of the old Monarch Mine area on Phoenix Mountain.
What A
Magnificent Future!
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 29 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Greenwood City: not a house to be seen, and suddenly three large hotels and all the indications of a considerable town.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Join photographer Brigitte Huerzeler on an early summer hike into the hills of the McCarren Creek area.
Phoenix
Rising
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — The Greenwood Phoenix was built in the 1960's by Bruno Berticevich, a welder working at the Granby.
Trouble on
the Tracks
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 15 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — As mining, agriculture and forestry were growing in the B.C. interior, a great period of railroad development surrounded the Boundary.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 08 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Anxious to welcome Spring? These photographs by Brigitte Huerzeler that will raise spirits, even as the snow keeps falling...
Theosophical Society
Arrives in the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Feb 01 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — In 1897, Greenwood gave audience to a proponent of the Theosophical Society, which founded a branch in the Boundary.
Views of
the Boundary
BY: BG EDITOR
Jan 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A collection of photographs by Brigitte Huerzeler, from the Greenwood Museum, housed in its current location since 1982.
