April 12, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Cultural and educational programming hosted by local nonprofit agencies including schools, libraries, the Clark County Historical Museum and The Historic Trust are in jeopardy after sweeping federal grant cuts earlier this month. Historical speakers and research, free event programming and literacy help for elementary students and their families all appear… Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:02am Clark County Life
On July 13, 1938, The Columbian’s front page announced, “Way Cleared for Building Power Lines” in a single-column block headline. Those power lines were particularly vital to Vancouver, turning it into a literal powerhouse that remains today. Read story
April 11, 2025, 6:01am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
April 9, 2025, 11:54am Clark County News
The Vancouver school board voted to rename two elementary schools at their Monday meeting, citing the violent histories of their namesakes. Read story
April 5, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Life
Two respected employees of the First National Bank used the same pistol when they died by suicide in 1901. Bank President Charles Brown and Cashier Edmund Lee Canby were well respected in Vancouver. Both were married, with children. Read story
April 5, 2025, 6:00am Clark County Life
If anyone embodies the phrase “Age is just a number,” it’s Virginia Warren. Read story
April 4, 2025, 6:06am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
March 29, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life
As the head of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department, George Simpson understood American settlers followed missionaries who followed fur trappers. Seeing his Columbia territory as rightly British, he took steps to stop, or at least slow, the first stage of the progression. That the HBC had absorbed John Jacob… Read story
March 28, 2025, 6:02am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
March 22, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life
Sam Hill was a wealthy, happy-go-lucky eccentric millionaire and philanderer, which mixed oddly with his Quakerism. James J. Hill hired Sam Hill into the Northern Pacific Railroad legal department in 1886. Two years later, Sam married his boss’s daughter, Mary Francis Hill (making her Mary Francis Hill Hill). The couple… Read story