Tag: Alpine Inn
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Alpine Inn Building at Christina Lake May Be Added to Heritage Registry
I recently found an article by Greg Nesteroff in the Grand Forks Now about the storage shed at Alpine Inn at Christina Lake that may be added to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary’s heritage register. Alpine Inn mainly consisted of a hotel and cabins that housed Japanese Canadian internees during WWII. There is a…
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Miss Sandner
This is a photo of the Miss Sandner, a boat built by my grandfather Kiheiji Kishi and his cousin Saeji Kishi while they were interned at Christina Lake. I found this enlarged photo hanging on the wall of the Christina Lake Visitors’ Centre when I went there this summer. The people on the boat are…
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Alpine Inn Residents During WWII
I have recently added a spreadsheet to this site that I have been working on intermittently for the past two years. It lists all the residents I could find who lived at Alpine Inn, a self-supporting site located at Christina Lake, BC, during WWII. Thanks to Kathleen Smythe and Nobby Hamagami who did the majority…