the Lure & Lore of the Local lecture series: The Canadian Pacific Railway’s Kootenay Landing Tug & Barge Service – 1898 to 1930
the Lure & Lore of the Local lecture series: The Canadian Pacific Railway’s Kootenay Landing Tug & Barge Service – 1898 to 1930
This is fourth lecture in this series commemorating the Town of Creston's Centennial. Michael Cone will tell a story of hard working tugs pushing railcar transfer barges between Kootenay Landing and Procter from 1898 until 1930. This daily service operated in all conditions, despite the perils of ice, driftwood, low water sandbars, blizzards and fog. […]