Looking back - Pincher Creek 1898

Pincher Creek in 1898
Photo courtesy of the Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village archives

This is what Pincher Creek looked like in 1898, the year it was incorporated as a village.  The Canadian Pacific Railway's Crowsnest line was being built, and the village was soon to see a lot of development, leading to it being incorporated as a town 8 years later in 1906.