Rossland Recollections with Roly Worsfold: The Olaus Story

Submitted by Rossland Museum &... on Fri, 04/04/2025 - 2:55pm

Join us at the Museum at 6 pm on Thursday, April 10th, as Roly Worsfold shares the Olaus Story - from Olaus' life and legacy to the journey of installing the statue, and even the connections he made in Norway along the way.
RSVP for this Speaker Series event at https://square.link/u/sCp2EjPT - we'll be celebrating Olaus and the Spirit of Red with a tea party (featuring actual tea and coffee, of course!).

Late November 1894, a Norwegian man arrived in Rossland. His arrival wasn't remarkable - miners were pouring into town in the thousands to seek their fortune in the gold mines of Red Mountain. But this man would go on to have a bigger impact on our town than perhaps any other. His name was Olaus Jeldness, and this particular miner came with skis.


More than a hundred years later, Rosslander Roly Worsfold had an idea. "I wouldn't be living and skiing in Rossland today if it weren't for Olaus," he told his buddies, "And a lot of other people wouldn't be either." Roly went on to lead the Spirit of Red Society, the group that raised funds to install the now-iconic statue of Olaus at the corner of Washington and Columbia.

More info: rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2025/april-recollections

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