Compiled by Cathy English, longtime curator of the Revelstoke Museum & Archives, Brown Bag History: Revelstoke Origins presents a granular examination of the foundational legal, political, and spatial conflicts that forged the city. The text details the contentious 1885 land dispute between settler A.S. Farwell and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which stalled municipal planning and led to dual competing townsite surveys along the Columbia River waterfront. English traces early civic engineering efforts, including the installation of the original wooden water flumes, the establishment of early commercial banks and brickworks, and the construction of railway and traffic bridges linking downtown Revelstoke to the working-class settlement of Big Eddy. Drawing on municipal minute books, court filings, and archival photographs, the chronicle illuminates the grassroots administrative struggles of an interior railway townsite.

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Based on the popular lunch-and-learn lecture series at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives.

Based on the popular lunch-and-learn lecture series at the Revelstoke Museum & Archives.