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When CP opened the Nelson–Procter spur in 1900, the company created a townsite at the landing, called Procter, in honour of the original owner. [2] In early 1901, at Sunshine Bay, between Harrop and nearby Procter, CP opened a wharf complex to handle freight cars, redefining the lake boat route from Kootenay Landing. [6]
Tom Harrop : Tintwistle 1854 : 1953 : 45: Notes: Comm. 5 June 1899 fire 1953 derelict [7] Best Hill Marsland : Kelsall and Marsland : Broadbottom, [8] 1793 : 231: Bank Bottom: Hadfield Notes: converted Henry Wyatt 1895 [9] Brown's Bleach Works
The Harrop Ferry is a cable ferry at Harrop Narrows [1] on the west arm of Kootenay Lake in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The crossing, off BC Highway 3A , is by road about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northeast of Nelson and 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Balfour .
Russell Anderson Jordan opened the Alta Lake Hotel which burned down in 1930, and replaced it with Jordan's Lodge on nearby Nita Lake. Bert and Agnes Harrop built Harrop's Point in the 1920s. This became the Cypress Lodge in 1945 under its then-owner Dick Fairhurst, who built new cabins and a main lodge in the early 1960s.
Stapp Lakes, also known as Stapp's Lake is a body of water near the town of Ward, Boulder County, Colorado, at the base of Mount Audubon. The lakes were the central feature of the Stapp Lakes Lodge, one of the original dude ranches in Colorado. Today, the Stapp Lakes are on private property with no public access. [1]
The camp had 207 acres (84 ha) and was situated on an esker between the Spectacle Ponds and Upper St. Regis Lake, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Saranac Lake, New York. The estate was designed by local builder Ben Muncil in collaboration with New York architect Theodore Blake. [3]
The 50-room Hotel Kootenay Lake, set in formal gardens and serviced by an aerial tramway from the shoreline, opened in 1911. The hotel was across the west arm from the western terminal of the CP Procter–Kootenay Landing lake-boat route. The 1913 recession killed the business and the hotel closed in 1914, near the outbreak of World War I. In ...
The Ernest Hemingway Cottage is a single-story frame structure with a gabled roof and white clapboard siding [6] measuring 20 feet by 40 feet. [5] The main section of the cottage contains the sleeping and living rooms, along with a bathroom and utility closet.