The Basin Record Newsletter Vol.3 Issue 1

Name: _______________________________________ Mailing Address:_______________________________ ____________________________________________ Phone Number:________________________________ Email Address:_ _______________________________ Become a member of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History Individual: $25.00 Family: $40.00 Institutional: $50.00 Corporate: $200.00 Annual Membership Fee: Please drop-off or mail this form - with payment in cash, cheque or money order to: Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History, 21-A 10th Ave S, Cranbrook BC, V1C 2M9 Phone: 489-9150 City of Cranbrook The Government of Canada has contributed funding to this initiative Columbia Basin Institute Image Bank Project The Trans Canada Airway Chris Weicht, a retired professional pilot and an aviation historian, will be touring the Columbia Basin this summer with a slideshow and talk. He will be promoting and presentingmaterial from The Trans Canada Airway, his most recent book. This volumegivesadetaileddescriptionof thedepression-built air route constructed across southern British Columbia fromVancouver to Lethbridge, AB. Airports were built every thirty to fifty miles by unemployed men using picks, shovels and wheelbarrows. In doing research for the Columbia Basin Image Bank work we ran across this noteworthy item in the Ainsworth Hot Springs News of December 26, 1891. “It is understood Mr. Anderson, the genial agent of the townsite company, has already deeded one of the choicest unimproved lots in Ainsworth to the first born in the town – the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geigerich.” Elsewhere the editor expresses the wish “that the little miss will grow up to be not only the joy of her parents, but the pride of the town.” Another Basin First Chris will present new historic material in small Columbia Basin communities from Greenwood to Fernie. Check our web site at www.basininstitute.org for times and places. We will post them once the arrangements have been finalized. 0131.0135 The Slocan City brass band (c1900) Please visit us at: www.basininstitute.org