Touchstones Archives
The Shawn Lamb Archives collects, preserves and provides on-site access to textual, cartographic, visual and audio records of Nelson and district. The Archives and an extensive research library of Kootenay research materials are located on the lower level of Touchstones Nelson.
Archive
Hours:
Thursday to Saturday 11am to 4pm
Closed Sunday thru Wednesday
Important fonds include:
- The Notre Dame University/David Thompson University Centre Fonds
- Kootenaiana Archival collection
- 54th Kootenay Battalion Association Collection
- Nelson Daily News collection
- West Kootenay Forest History archives
- Collections of various West Kootenay photographers
Click here to view a brief overview of the archive holdings
A Life in the Woods - Oral Histories from the West Kootenay Forests
Listen to 16 audio interviews and follow along with the transcripts to the memories of sixteen individuals who worked in the forest industry in the West Kootenay during the last century, including forest fire spotters, loggers, truck drivers, and fire fighters. Created from a selection of 16 recorded interviews previously edited for publication in 3 coil-bound volumes by Peter Chapman and Joel Russ for the West Kootenay Forest History Project during the mid-1990’s. Funding for the development of the site was received from the BC History Digitization Program of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia. View the exhibit online at http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/forest/ .
