Hi folks! Welcome to Ridge Records, the home of great entertainment about the history of Rossland in song and story. Rossland is an alpine skiing town with a mining history, located in the Kootenay region of southern British Columbia, Canada. You'll find recordings, written word and photos. Most of the material is first hand accounts by the folks who lived it (Seth Martin, Alfie Albo and Booty Griffiths to name a few). Although most of the stories originate in Rossland, with the mining that went on here in the 1890s and later, folks came here from all over the world, so stories often have connections that go far and wide. Rossland was the original home of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the first AC generating plant in North America. A famous police constable in Rossland, John Kirkup, was one of two models John Wayne used in creating his persona. There was a young man named Jimmy Fuller who worked in the Rossland Mines for years whose father was James Maybrick, one of the "Jack the Ripper" suspects, and whose mother was Florence Chandler Maybrick who was condemned to death by hanging for poisoning her husband. Tragically Jimmy died himself of accidental cyanide poisoning only two weeks before he was to be married. Ernest Chenoweth was an eight-year-old boy who in 1900 became the youngest person in Canada ever to stand trial for murder. You'll find all these stories and more !
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