The Ledge
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2011-09-29
issued: 1898-10-27
description: The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.
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note: Volume VI. No. 4. NEW DENVER, B. C, OCTOBER 27, 1898. Price, ��2 00 Year BEAUTIFUL SLOGANS P. A. O'Farrell, the talented writer who is doing- the mining- region of Kootenay for the eastern Canadian press, writes this excellent description of Sandon, the Slocan lake and surrounding country : Sandon is a city of 2,000 people in the bosom of the Kootenay mountains, and above it toweriug* into the limits of everlasting snow are forests a'id mountains that fill the traveller with awe. Sandon has its Mayor, its City Council, its water and fire departments. It has .an electric light system, its first-class hotels, I for one can live here just as luxuriously as in the Queen's or the Waldorf. It has churches���Methodist, Catholic, Episcopalian and Presbyterian, and it has saloons and dance halls without number. It is in good sooth, a cosmopolitan hamlet perched in tlie gorges of the Selkirks. where folks live and thrive just as well as they live and thrive around Milan or Brussels, or Canterbury or Hamilton. The surroundings at Sandon are hot like the surroundings of an Ontario or Ohio hamlet. The neat cottag*es just by gardens and orchards are not seen at Sandon. Here the corn is never seen to g*row, the. fruit trees never bud. or do the flowers ever bloom. The surroundings are mountains, whose slopes are primeval forests, and whose crests are everlasting snows. And yet in all the wide extended territory of the Dominion there is not a single town or hamlet where plenty and content are so plainly visible as in this same mountain city of Sandon., Two railroads connect it .with the outside world and bring thither daily all the creature comforts that wealth can buy. The choicest fruits of California and the richest wines of France have here a ready market. You can see the wares of Ontario, Flanders and New England displayed in the shop windows. The latest magazines, the latest scandals of tlie Champs Elysees and the newest developments ofroriental politics are discussed here in…
note: Preceding Title: The Nakusp Ledge Succeeding Title: The Fernie Ledger Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: New Denver (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0182324
language: English
lat: 49.991389
long: -117.377222
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: New Denver, B.C. : R.T. Lowery
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text