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 amazing photos from Nelson Museum that captured people in the saloons in Nelson, B.C. from the 1890s.
Interior of the Tremont Hotel Saloon on Baker Street in Nelson, BC, 1891
Ten men in a hotel saloon in Nelson, BC, circa 1895
Four men posing in the Athabasca Saloon located at 101 Baker Street in Nelson, BC, circa 1899
Interior of the Royal Hotel Saloon located at 709 Stanley Street in Nelson, BC, 1899
Man behind bar of the Manhattan Saloon located at 505 Josephine Street in Nelson, BC, 1899
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