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.