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
Touchstones Nelson’s Flickr® Photostream
Touchstones Nelson’s extensive collection of nitrate negatives are now accessible for viewing through the Society’s photostream account on Flickr® via www.flickr.com/photos/touchstonesnelson/. The Flickr® site allows the general user to help Society staff identify individuals in the photos, as well as locations and landmarks, by leaving comments and/or tagging images. The film currently includes photographs by J. H. Allen, Geo. A. Meeres, and J. D. Spurway, as well as the construction of the CPR Procter-Kootenay Landing link. Photographs will be uploaded onto the account regularly, so be sure to check it out!
The Flickr® Nitrate Negative Digitization project was generously supported through a grant from the Columbia Basin Trust.
Changes Upstream - the Photographs of Stanley G. Triggs
During the summers of 1969 to 1972 Stanley Triggs visited the area in Southeastern British Columbia that was to be flooded by the construction in Montana of the Libby Dam on the Kootenay River. He documented the shift from large productive ranches and range land to wide expanses of water in the area north of the Libby Dam. Through these photographs he recorded its effect on both the people living in the area and the landscape.
The creation of the site has been funded in part by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, British Columbia History Digitization Program. Visit the exhibition at http://touchstonesnelson.ca/exhibitions/triggs/
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/ .
