07 Apr 1894
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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 07, 1894
Page
1
An advertisement for Bay, established in 1670, offering dry goods groceries loots shoes crockery wines and related items. It notes prices quoted and samples on request with special attention to mail orders and invites written inquiries.
Hudsons Bay Co Golden sits on the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway at its Columbia river steamboat navigation junction. It serves as a mining and commercial hub for Eastern British Columbia with smelting works Upper Columbia Navigation Co. and lumber industry tied to Columbia and Kootenay Valleys agriculture and grazing land.
Local jottings report visits by W G Neilson Beaver A G Spragge Donald and I P Norbury from Fort Steele. Notes on hospital subscriptions, church accounts, and vestry actions. Building rises in town with street lamps and a new boarding house. Occasional remarks on pet stock, Betsy bridge, and community events amid winter to spring transition.
At the police court on Tuesday Billy McCullough was sentenced to one month imprisonment for assaulting Joe Barber with intent to do bodily injury. Justice Armstrong noted ongoing town disturbances and said fines have little effect, so repeated cases of this nature will be punished with imprisonment without the option of a fine.
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