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Coldstream Ranch, 2018

Coldstream Ranch, 2018

The Coldstream Ranch continues as a working ranch for cattle, horses, grains, and some fruit orchards. Coldstream Ranch
Lord Aberdeen Inspecting Guisachan Farm, c.1895

Lord Aberdeen Inspecting Guisachan Farm, c.1895

Lord Aberdeen, followed by an Okanagan Mission Priest and John Morrison, are inspecting the animal barn. “We are glad we came down here as we have found there […]
Guisachan, Okanagan Mission, B.C., c.1892

Guisachan, Okanagan Mission, B.C., c.1892

Photographer Ernest Brown took this photograph when he visited the Okanagan Valley around 1892.  The young fruit trees are planted in rows in the plowed fields around Guisachan […]
The Coldstream Ranche, Vernon, B.C., 1892

The Coldstream Ranche, Vernon, B.C., 1892

Mackay negotiated the sale of the Coldstream Ranch.  It became known later, that he had also accepted a commission from the seller.  Lord Aberdeen’s solicitor and hired agricultural […]
The Postill Ranch and Duck Lake, c.1890s

The Postill Ranch and Duck Lake, c.1890s

View of the Postill Ranch, north of Okanagan Mission at the edge of Duck Lake (Ellison Lake).
“White Leghorns at Guisachan B.C.”; “Guisachan Pigs”; “Specimen of a Guisachan Cabbage”; “Guisachan”, 1891

“White Leghorns at Guisachan B.C.”; “Guisachan Pigs”; “Specimen of a Guisachan Cabbage”; “Guisachan”, 1891

Lady Aberdeen, wanting to record the visit, ‘Kodaked’ things that she found interesting such as the animals, vegetables and buildings.
Coldstream, 1898

Coldstream, 1898

Archival photographs are used in the video to illustrate some of the people, buildings, and places in the Coldstream area that Lady Aberdeen described in her journal. These […]
Gate into Guisachan Farm in 1891

Gate into Guisachan Farm in 1891

Drawing inspired by Lady Aberdeen’s 1891 Kodak photograph as published in Through Canada with a Kodak.