Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Known as “The Queen City”, and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush, Nelson is one of the three cities forming the commercial and population core of the West Kootenay region, the others being Castlegar and Trail.
The city is the seat of the Regional District of Central Kootenay. It is represented in the provincial legislature by the riding of Nelson-Creston, and in the Parliament of Canada by the riding of Kootenay—Columbia.
These photographs of Nelson houses from Touchstones Nelson were taken in the early 1930s by “a young fellow ... [who] was interested in architecture.” Many of these houses are still standing today in Nelson.
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| 108 High Street |
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| 207 Behnsen Street. At corner of Maple Street. Streetcar tracks in foreground |
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| 220 Silica Street |
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| 220 Victoria Street |
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| 302 Victoria Street |
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| 410 Cottonwood Street |
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| 413 Nelson Avenue |
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| 415 Behnsen Street |
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| 415 Observatory Street |
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| 417 Second Street |
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| 420 Second Street |
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| 421 Nelson Avenue |
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| 501 Nelson Avenue |
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| 505 Nelson Avenue |
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| 508 1st Street |
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| 511 Nelson Avenue |
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| 514 Second Street |
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| 615 Latimer Street |
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| 615 Second Street |
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| 616 Nelson Avenue |
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| 702 Mill Street. Leith house |
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| 702 Victoria Street |
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| 704 Fifth Street |
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| 707 Latimer Street |
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| 710 Third Street |
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| 721 Cedar Street |
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| 722 Third Street |
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| 723 Victoria Street and 721 Victoria Street. Built 1900 by John Hepburn |
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| 803 Cedar Street |
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| 804 Stanley Street |
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| 805 Ward Street |
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| 811 Vernon Street |
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| 815 Baker Street |
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| 816 Vernon Street. Now Stepping Stones |
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| 824 Carbonate Street |
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| 900 Block Silica Street. Left to right- 920 Silica Street, 918 Silica Street, 914 Silica Street, 912 Silica Street |
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| 902 Vernon Street. No longer there |
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| 904 Silica Street |
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| 908 Vernon Street |
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| 919 Victoria Street |
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| 1004 Stanley Street |
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| 1121 Stanley Street |
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| 1123 Front Street |
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| 1403 Front Street |
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| 1409 Front Street, Bert Oliver |
