August13_2010

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Photos - Frames left and center: Parting Shots of Sandon BC: Carpenter Creek, Brill Trolley Busses and the Visitors Center. Sandon is located in the Selkirk Mountains, about ten kilometers east of the town of New Denver.

Frame right: Front Street looking West from the 300 block. The Kaslo Hotel is located at 430 Front Street and is the big building in back ground to the right.

The Village of Kaslo is the oldest incorporated community in the Kootenays, and is located 70 kilometers north of Nelson on Highway 31 on the western shore of Kootenay Lake. With a rich and colorful history, this community is also accessible by boat or through its small airfield.

Photos - Frames left and center: An old brick building at 331 - 333 Front Street that was built in 1896.

Frame right: Another view of Front Street looking West, featuring the south side of the street with the Front Street Market behind the standing motorcycles at 411 Front Street.

The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that worked on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada from 1898 until 1957.
After her nearly sixty years of service, she was sold to the town of Kaslo and restored. Today she is a National Historic Site and the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler.

Photos - Kaslo Drug Store (frame left), Historic SS Moyie Paddlewheeler (center frame), and the old Canadian Pacific Building (frame right). The old CP building is overlooking Kootenay lake in 300 block of Front Street which is next door to the SS Moyie and depot, and was once an important office building for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Click here for more photos of Sandon for this day.