Looking Back

“Bye, baby bunting,
Daddy’s gone a-hunting,
Gone to get a rabbit skin,
To wrap the baby Bunting in”

The Great Depression led to many desperate money-making measures and people would do just about anything to try and survive.

Recently the old dance hall at Crowsnest Lake was dismantled and levelled and all that remains now is a bare patch where this remarkable old pavilion once stood. 

Their living room was full of supportive community members all wanting to share that official announcement.

It may surprise many of you to learn that the town of Blairmore had a Bangor Class minesweeper named after it in 1942.

The Kootenay geological formation holds the key to how the communities of the Pass developed