Tours - Driving Site Description

This is a fine example of a type of miner's cottage that was common throughout the Pass. It is a wood frame structure built on a square plan and has a hipped roof with a central brick chimney. The front porch is integral to the roofline, forming an extended eave. Note the lathe-turned posts and fancy stick work. This cottage was not built on its present site but was moved here; the transportation of buildings from place to place in the Pass was not an uncommon practice.

Guisseppi Nastasi immigrated to Canada with his brother in 1901. He came to Coleman with a C.P.R. gang in 1902, and then went to work in the mine in Lille the following year. The brothers later moved to Passburg in 1910, where they built and operated a bakery until 1920. Joseph married Eleanore DeLieu who had come from Lille in France to Lille in Canada in 1904; she was a midwife in both Lille and Passburg. Joseph later ran a confectionary and worked as a miner until his retirement in 1939. In 1956 Joseph Nastasi moved his house from Passburg to Bellevue.

Directions: Turn right onto 25 Avenue south to 211 Street. Turn right, and then left on 24 Avenue. At 213 Street, jog to the right onto 23 Avenue.