A GUIDE TO FORT STEELE HISTORIC PARK, British Columbia (1978 1st Ed.)

Author: BC Ministry of Recreation & Conservation. Illustrated by Dianne Bersea. Published by BC Parks Branch, 1978, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with sun-faded back cover, original owners name inside. Beautifully illustrated, this book is a wonderful companion for anyone interested in, or visiting, Fort Steele! 120 pages.

A GUIDE TO FORT STEELE HISTORIC PARK, in British Columbia, is a vintage souvenir tourist guidebook that describes Fort Steele. It was a gold rush boom town founded in 1864 by John Galbraith.

The town was originally called "Galbraith's Ferry", named after the ferry set up by the city's founder over the Kootenay River. The town was renamed Fort Steele in 1888, after legendary Canadian lawman Superintendent Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police solved a dispute between a settler who had unjustly accused one of the local First Nations men with murder. This dispute had caused a great deal of tension between the town and the native people. Sam Steele, finding no real evidence against the accused natives, had the charges against them lifted. Both the town and the First Nations people were so grateful that they renamed the town Fort Steele. 

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ISBN: 0771880499
GC&C Stock #574