Photographs, Art and Graphics
And web pages on historical matters of personal interest

John J. Kalmakov - kalmakov.com

John Kalmakov has been an art teacher, amateur photographer, visual artist, and graphic designer, in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia since the early 1970s. Now in retirement, he has focused on the more practical aspects of his art, contracting and donating his services to local historical societies, the Arts community and other non-profit groups, including the local USCC Doukhobors. Also a web designer, he collaborated with partners to create two web sites for this organization - the USCC Doukhobors and the Doukhobor Cultural Interpretive Society, which are still online today, although no longer actively supported. His personal interest in the local history of the West Kootenay-Boundary country, expressed in the watercolour and acrylic paint of his early "Cultural Landscapes" (Penticton Art Gallery), is now occasionally re-emerging on this web page in the form of written words.

Photographs, Art and Graphics

01 > A Selection of Photographs ...

02 > A Selection of Art and Graphics ...

03 > A Selection of Doukhobor-related Graphics ...

04 > Grand Forks Rocks - a 1960s story and booklet design ...

 

West Kootenay- Boundary local history

01 > The 49th Parallel Northwest Boundary Survey ...
02 > 49th Parallel Survey - Mapping the Boundary Survey ...
03 > 49th Parallel Survey in the Kettle Valley - the Logistics and the Science ...
04 > 49th Parallel Survey - the Photographic Record (Grande Prairie / Grand Forks) ...
05 > 49th Parallel Survey - the Photographic Record (Rock Creek) ...
06 > 49th Parallel Survey - the Photographic Record (Fort Colville & Fort Shepherd) ...
07 > Dominion Land Survey 1871-1889 - The System ...
08 > Dominion Land Survey - Historic Documents and Maps ...
09 > The Osoyoos Land District Township Survey ...
10 > Pre-emptions in Colonial British Columbia and Grand Forks ...
11 > Grand Forks Historic Survey Maps 1893-1897...
12 > Grand Forks Original Crown Land Grants 1878-1913 ...
13 > Phoenix Webpage - with a 1911 Interactive Map and Historical Photographs ...
14 > Grand Forks Granby Smelter ...
15 > Grand Forks & West Kootenay-Boundary Historic Railways ...
16 > Grand Forks & West Kootenay-Boundary - Historical Photographs ...
17 > Grand Forks 1913 Promotional Photo Album ...
18 > Grand Forks - a Smelter View from Hardy Mountain ...
19 > Online Historical Atlas of Canada (Boundary Changes 1670 - 2001) ...
20 > Researching Allan McPhee - a Place-name of Interest to "Ootischenians" ...
21 > Waterloo Landing in the Castlegar News - by Helen Dunlop (1967) ...

 

Web pages of possible Doukhobor interest

01 > Doukhobors in the News - Manitoba Free Press ...
02 > Akhalkalaki and the Mokri Gori (Wet Mountains) ...
03 > Abastuman - the Dowager Empress and the Doukhobor Petition ...
04 > Montreal newspaper artist, R.G. Mathews, sketches the Doukhobors in 1899 ...
05 > The William Blakemore Doukhobor Photographs - Ootischenia and Glade in 1912 ...
06 > Dr. Frederick Montizambert and the 1899 Doukhobor quarantine at Grosse Isle ...
07 > Acquiring photographs of the SS Lake Huron & SS Lake Superior ...
08 > Unfolding Ootischenia History - the restoration of old survey maps ...
09 > Grand Forks Sion Cemetery Headstones ...
10 >The Farron CPR Train Explosion - Peter V. Verigin's Final Earthly Journey ...
11 >The Farron CPR Train Explosion - the Kootenay Express and the CPR Station ...
12 >The Farron CPR Train Explosion - Penticton Museum Records ...
13 > Batoum and the Doukhobors at the Richner Kerosene Factory ...
14 > The Kedabek Copper Smelter and the Elizavetpol Slavianka Doukhobors ...

 

Historical maps created or restored

01 > The Oregon Treaty of 1846 and the 49th Parallel ...
02 > Grand Forks to Phoenix Historic Mines and Railroads ...
03 > Phoenix Historic Interactive Pdf Map of the townsite and mines ...
04 > Grand Forks Historic Railroads - CPR (C&W), GN (VV&E) and KRVR (KVR) ...
05 > Grand Forks Westend CPR Train Station and Yards ...
06 > CPR (C&W) Railroad & Stations Interactive Pdf map - Castlegar to Midway ...
07 > Farron CPR Station and Yards ...
08 > Doukhobor Historic Settlements in the Caucasus 1845-1899 ...
09 > Doukhobor Historic Saskatchewan Colonies and Villages 1905 ...
10 > CCUB Doukhobor West Kootenay Settlements 1909-1938 ...
11 > CCUB Doukhobor Grand Forks settlements and villages 1909-1938 ...
12 > Grand Forks Historic July Creek-Sion waterlines 1888-1926 ...
13 > Ootischenia Historic Waterlines and Villages ...
14 > Selkirk College area - DL10 and part of SL66 of DL4598 1957 survey ...
15 > Ootischenia BC Land Settlement Board (LSB) original 1957 map of dirt roads ...
16 > Ootischenia BC LSB - map of dirt roads & Doukhobor villages (1957) ...
17 > Ootischenia BC LSB - map of paved roads & Doukhobor villages (1957) ...
18 > Ootischenia & Brilliant 1939 Aerial Map - Doukhobor villages & Dirt Roads w. dot markers ...
19 > Ootischenia & Brilliant 1939 Aerial Map - Doukhobor villages & Dirt Roads w/o. dot markers ...
20 > Ootischenia & Brilliant 1939 Aerial Map - Doukhobor villages & modern highways ..