Man charged in B.C. museum arson
Last Updated: Friday, June 4, 2010 | 7:01 PM PT
The Canadian Press
An arson charge has been laid after flames devoured the Silver Ledge Hotel near Nelson Thursday. (CBC)A man has been charged with arson in relation to a fire that destroyed the 114-year-old Silver Ledge Hotel in Ainsworth, near Nelson, B.C.
The building, which was converted to a museum, burned to the ground on Thursday morning.
Charged is Randolph Paul Hanoski.
Hanoski, 53, was arrested close to the scene of the fire and made his first court appearance on Friday, RCMP Staff Sgt. Dan Seibel of the Kootenay Boundary Regional Detachment said in a release.
He was released on bail and is scheduled to appear in court again July 6 in Nelson.
It was the second fire in two weeks to level a landmark building in B.C.'s southern Interior.
On May 22, flames raced through the nearly 100-year-old Mesa Hotel in Oliver, B.C., destroying the building that had been moved to the southern Okanagan from New Westminster in the 1920s.
In 1896, the Silver Ledge Hotel was one of only two buildings in the once-thriving mining community of Ainsworth to survive a fire that wiped out the rest of the town.
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