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I had some time traveling from Missoula to Spokane last Thursday 5/23 to stop in Wallace for the night.  

I wanted to check out some of the Brunelle landmarks so when I got to town I drove up Burke Canyon a ways, as far as Black Bear where this photo of Marguerite was taken in 1906, and back through Woodlawn Park to Wallace.

Then I went up 9 Mile Creek Road to the Nine Mile…

Alvan Brunelle told the story that in 1911 when he was 24 he and friends hopped a train in northern Idaho, and railed from Spokane to Boise.  

There they visited some capital city friends, rode the trolley to the end of Warm Springs Avenue, took a swim at the Natatorium and then Alvan visited Harry Orchard in prison.

He…

The 100^th anniversary of Big Blowup will be observed August 20-21, 2010 in ceremonies in northern Idaho and Montana and this event serves as an inspiration to compile a Brunelle family story of the 1910 fire that swept through Wallace. The story revolves around Alvan Brunelle and Marguerite Francis Haney, both of whom lived through the 1910 fire, later meeting and then married in 1915. Because of them we are here…