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ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS'

Chapel and Performance Center
Balfour, British Columbia

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An early publicity view of the impressive CPR’s Kootenay Lake Hotel overlooking Balfour. Visible along the bottom of the picture are the Hotel’s tennis courts. Photograph courtesy of the CPR Archives. — CPR’s Kootenay Lake Hotel

The new 25th Anniversary Edition of the Kootenay Outlet Reflections book released in 2013 and still available for purchase. — Kootenay Outlet Reflections book

One of two of the Balfour and District Business and Historical Association’s monuments marking the eastern approach to Balfour on Highway 3A. The other monument is along Highway 31 to the north. — Monument

The MV Anscomb’s wheelhouse and portion of aft cabin on display at the Balfour Ferry Terminal. The MV Anscomb served as the Kootenay Lake ferry from 1947 until 2000. — Anscomb Wheelhouse

The Take the Scenic Route sign approaching Castlegar from the west. A sister sign is located at the Kidd Creek Rest Area east of Creston. — Scenic Route Sign

A view from the grounds of the CPR’s Kootenay Lake Hotel looking east toward the Outlet and the ‘Main’ Lake – circa 1916. The flooded area in the flats below is where the parking lot for the Balfour Ferry terminal is today. — Flooded Flats

A view from Procter looking across the West Arm to Balfour. The CPR’s Kootenay Lake Hotel, surrounded by young fruit trees, is visible on the bench above Balfour. Below, the CPR’s elegant steamer, the SS Nasookin, is moored at the Hotel’s wharf – circa 1914. — A view from Procter

The veteran steamer, the SS Moyie, which is now preserved at Kaslo as a National Historic Site of Canada, photographed early in the morning at the Procter wharf. She plied Kootenay Lake for 59 years, from 1898 to 1957, and is the oldest intact passenger sternwheeler in the world. Visible on the far right, is the MV Anscomb at her berth at Balfour – circa 1952. — SS Moyie

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ST. MICHAELS AND ALL ANGELS’
CHAPEL AND PERFORMANCE CENTER
8551 BUSK RD.
BALFOUR, BC V0G 1C0

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