Butte Historical Memorials Inc

One year ago today we were honored to host a family event for relatives of the victims of the 1895 Great Butte Warehouse Explosion. Beginning with a movie night at NCAT, Breakfast and lunch at the Butte Archives, tours to key places and a farewell dinner at Metals Sports Bar. Wonderful weekend for all.

On June 23, 2021, the sculptures of Edwin “Two Bear Robins”, Angus Cameron, Gibbon Fraser and Call-Box #72 were moved from the display at Gamers to the lobby of the NorthWestern Energy building for a new window display. The sculpture pieces had been on display in Gamers display windows since June 12, 2020 but after the devastating fire destroying the historic M&M Bar the Gamers building was slightly comprised and the decision to move the pieces was made. Northwest Energy was very generous to display the sculpture pieces for us. The move was just one block and some of the pieces were accompanied by their ancestors.

Sue Ueland with help from John Sandford and Dan Jones moved Two Bear down the sidewalk via a wheelchair. Sue's smile and laughter were infectious. She thought the idea of moving Two Bear in a wheelchair was priceless. Thanks to Mitzi and Jim Daily for loaning us the wheelchair.

Angus Cameron has no family members in Butte but he had a connection with BHM board member Shelly Jones, she had spent almost 17 months with Angus as a roommate at the fire station so she held his hand as he moved down the street to NWE. It was rather a challenge to get Cameron out the door of Gamers, he is very tall.

Gibbon Fraser had the most family members to assist with his move down the street. Eleven year old Daniel Fraser with a little assistance, moved Gibbon down the street while Annette Giop took pictures to add to their Fraser family history. John Giop assisted us with the loading of all the rubble we will use as decorations at NWE. This was a definite family affair.

We moved Two Bear down the sidewalk along the Party Palace, the sidewalk was quite rough so the other two sculptures were moved down the pavement...we even stopped traffic for a minute!

A big THANK YOU to the Butte AOH for installing the 9 headstones we (BHM) purchased for the victims of the Butte Warehouse Explosion of 1895 at St. Patrick's Cemetery. Thank you also to Butte Weekly for the attached article.