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The Annual
Greenwood Bird Survey

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May 16 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Today we offer the third edition of the annual Greenwood Bird Survey, updating the progress of local birdwatchers.


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Views of
the Boundary

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May 09 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on a hike up Ingram Mountain, with beautiful views of the Boundary.


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Scottish Community
in Greenwood, Pt. 2

BY: BG EDITOR

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May 02 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Throughout the 1800s, the sport of Curling flourished throughout Canada, thanks to the expat Scotsmen who settled there.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Apr 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us on an early spring hike up Deer Mountain (so called by the locals).


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Persons of Note:
F. J. Finucane, Part 2

BY: BG EDITOR

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Apr 18 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — While managing bank business, Mr. F. J. Finucane found time to involve himself in many other business & social activities.


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Views of
the Boundary

BY: BG EDITOR

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Apr 11 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us along on a picturesque hike up Buckhorn Ridge in Greenwood.


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The Early History
of the Boundary

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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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.


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The Value
of Miners

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Mar 14 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler walks us through the seasons to Frank and Edith Winter's ranch in Boundary Valley.


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A Provincial Mineralogist's
Mining History

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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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.


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The Circus Comes
to Greenwood

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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.


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The
Poseur

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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St. Valentines &
Sweetheart Kisses

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Feb 01 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A stunning photographic collection by Brigitte Huerzeler of a snowshoe trip from Marshall Lake to Dacha Cabin.


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Persons of Note:
The Leckie Brothers

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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…"


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Scottish Community
in Greenwood, Pt. 3

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May 09 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Scottish residents of early Greenwood gave their non-Scots neighbours many opportunities to enjoy the music of their homeland.


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Views of
the Boundary

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May 02 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler takes us along on a springtime hike in the greening hills above Midway.


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Scottish Community
in Greenwood

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Apr 18 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Today we hike to an old mine above Greenwood, near Lind Creek Road, with photographer Brigitte Huerzeler.


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Greenwood Persons of
Note: F. J. Finucane

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Apr 04 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A collection of views from the historic City of Phoenix and Phoenix Mountain, from photographer Brigitte Huerzeler.


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Greenwood's
First Ambulance

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Mar 21 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Photographer Brigitte Huerzeler shares a 'telling collection': signs of times past & present, hither and yon in the Boundary.


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Pandemic History
in Canada

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Mar 14 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — There were two major pandemics experienced by the residents of early Greenwood — the Spanish and Russian flu.


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Views of
the Boundary

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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.


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What A
Magnificent Future!

BY: BG EDITOR

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Join photographer Brigitte Huerzeler on an early summer hike into the hills of the McCarren Creek area.


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Phoenix
Rising

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Feb 22 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — The Greenwood Phoenix was built in the 1960's by Bruno Berticevich, a welder working at the Granby.


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Trouble on
the Tracks

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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.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Feb 08 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — Anxious to welcome Spring? These photographs by Brigitte Huerzeler that will raise spirits, even as the snow keeps falling...


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Theosophical Society
Arrives in the Boundary

BY: BG EDITOR

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Feb 01 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — In 1897, Greenwood gave audience to a proponent of the Theosophical Society, which founded a branch in the Boundary.


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Views of
the Boundary

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Jan 25 GREENWOOD, BC (BG) — A collection of photographs by Brigitte Huerzeler, from the Greenwood Museum, housed in its current location since 1982.


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