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Friday, September 23, 2011 Nelson Star
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Touchstones of Nelson - Greg Scott
Police quell Krestova riot Dateline September 4, 1958
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he doors will close today on some of Nelson’s earliest history. The historic Madden Hotel, erected at the corner of Baker and Ward Streets in 1898, is doomed for demolition. Jimmie Madden, owner of the pioneer hostel that was “home” for early sourdoughs before and after the turn of the century, will lock the doors “for keeps” today. This ends an era in hotel management unparalleled in western Canada that was
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first established by Thomas Madden in 1887. The hotel is a landmark of early Kootenay history. In its place, a smart new Woolworth Company store fronting 90 feet of Baker Street will soon be constructed.
Dateline September 10, 1958
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lence to the school bus hurled earlier by a mob of frenzied Freedomite women warned of a possible attack and sparked the most determined police counter-preparations ever launched in the district. The short tension packed period was the latest indication of radical unrest in this troubled section of BC. It followed a short lull which was brought about by a federal-provincial governments offer to assist the Sons of Freedom to migrate to Russia.
CMP. officers armed with tear gas grenades and a riot gun boarded a school bus Tuesday and escorted 28 children into the Sons of Freedom headquarters at Krestova. Threats of vioStory continues to Page 19
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