RadioKBPV's Podcast

Full Audio of the KBPV Tombstone Tour for 2021, recorded at Pincher Creek's Fairview Cemetery, the evening of August 7, 2021.  Readings are curated by Farley Wuth, and presented by staff and volunteers of Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village. Individual episodes of each reading will appear in the fall of 2021.

Experience the history of rural life on this picturesque southwestern corner of the Canadian Prairies! Past chronicles highlight Cowley’s agricultural and commercial histories, the coal mining and school heritage of Lundbreck and how the C.P.R. labeled the settlement of Pincher City. Additional stops recall ranching and farming tales of the Earl Cook farm, William and Mary Glass farm (now Heritage...

A recreation of the "Our Alberta Heritage" 1970s radio spots commissioned by Calgary Power, celebrating Alberta history.  Now, we don't have the recordings, and we don't have Andy Russell's dulcet voice, but we do have the scripts and, the underlying music of Robert Farnon theme "Gateway to the West."  So sit back, as a history nerd recreates a few of the old Calgary Power infomercials. 

One of Pincher Creek’s firsts was the old Memorial Hospital, an impressive structure that housed the settlement’s original formal hospital. Although the arrival of doctors, midwives and some medical services dated as early as the 1880s, most of these endeavours were handled out of peoples’ homes or cramped offices set up by the doctors themselves. The Memorial Hospital, established circa 1902, ans...

The story of  John Herron, a North West Mounted Policeman who built  a life near Pincher Creek, and was an unsung builder in the development of south-western Alberta. email: RadioKBPV@gmail.com www: kootenaibrown.ca

The audio  for a Youtube presentation posted at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbz11ojnYUI&fbclid=IwAR2yUjaRqhnosT1EUS7BvexraasHz8JfngSSRQAZW9oNbSgK-ihiE3JYckk Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village Education Coordinator Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_qjGMo5zOjb6GWsygTVNg About the film: A Sony video tape V-30H (1/2”) of this short dramatic documentary was recently found (2020) in...

Another of Farley's columns form Shootin' the Breeze - Dec 2 2020 Music: Christmas 1915 - Celtic Thunder Email: RadioKBPV@gmail.com www.kootenaibrown.ca

Storyteller Jim Green

Colby Jenkins and her new children's book, "Red, the Ranch Dog"

Mary May & Bobbi Wendland speak of their book "Memory Lane Magic" - Short stories authored by the late Ken May

Author's Night is coming again to KBPV.  Friday Nov 20, 1 pm - 4 pm. Hear audio from some of our attending authors.   www.kootenaibrown.ca email: RadioKBPV@gmail.com

An unofficial Podcast Crossover. Gord Tolton speaks with Dean Karyanys of the History Author Podcast  about the book "Healy's West" - available at The Country Store in KBPV.

From Shootin' the Breeze Nov 28 2020 - Fifty Years Ago, the cabin of John 'Kootenai' Brown, was moved from Waterton to the site in Pincher Creek where the Museum Village bearing his name would grow. Researched and Written by Farley Wuth Narration and Engineering by Gord Tolton email:RadioKBPV@gmail.com

Coverage of Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village's "All Over the Map" Tour, July 25 2020 in the Muncipal District of Pincher Creek - visiting Fishburn Village, Fishburn United Church, sites of Fishburn, Halifax and Utopia rural schools, and St. Henry's RC Church.  Hosting and Research by Farley Wuth, narration and engineering by Gord Tolton. Guest speakers Cecil Blackburn, Fred Stenson and Patrick Hochs...

Welcome back to Kootenai Brown Now! Plan to attend the COVID Compliant Halloween events at Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village: Halloween in the Village: Family Friendly Trick or Treating, 1 pm-4 pm Gourmet & Ghouls Dining Experience, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm. For information, drop in to the Museum, or call 403-627-3684 or visit kootenaibrown.ca

A selection of live readings from Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village's popular series of perennial August Full Moon tours of southwestern Alberta pioneer cemeteries. On Aug 22, 2020, we visited Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, in the Crook School District, seven miles south of Pincher Creek.  Curator: Farley Wuth Readers: Farley Wuth, Isabelle Charette, Dan Crawford, Gord Tolton, Francis Cyr, Colleen Casey-...

Stories from the Book "Prairie Warships" Originally presented on CBC Calgary Daybreak Show in 2007 www.kootenaibrown.ca email: RadioKBPV@gmail.com