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Aberdeens’ Coldstream Ranch House, 1890s

This was the Aberdeens’ home when they visited Coldstream Ranch. “…there is a wonderful charm in feeling that one is once more on one’s own domain & that […]

Lord Aberdeen, Marjorie, and Archie Ready to Hunt, c. 1894

Lord Aberdeen with two of his children, Marjorie and Archie, on the steps of their Coldstream Ranch house. They are holding rifles and are about to go hunting.

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

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

View of the Postill Ranch, north of Okanagan Mission at the edge of Duck Lake (Ellison Lake).

“Guisachan B.C.”, 1891

One of a number of Kodak photos that Lady Aberdeen took of Guisachan House to record their first trip to Guisachan Farm.

Bethel Presbyterian Church, c.1915

The Bethel Presbyterian Church, built in 1892 on land donated by Mackay, was partially funded by the Aberdeens. Lady Aberdeen wrote in Through Canada with a Kodak that, […]

“Coming home from Church with the new team Brown Bess & Baby & her foal Madge Guisachan B.C.”, 1891

Kodak photo of Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Coutts and Eustace Smith (farm manager) in the horse-drawn carriage arriving back at Guisachan House after the church service in the […]

“Aberdeen, Coutts & Marjorie guarding the game aided by Spot and Crusoe”, 1891

Kodak photo of Lord Aberdeen, Coutts and Marjorie, with the two dogs, Spot and Crusoe, on the porch of Guisachan House displaying the wild birds that were hunted.

“Residence No. 1. Present owner emerging from inspection”; “Residence No. 2.”; “Residence No. 3.”, 1891

John McDougall was born at Fort Garry around 1827 to a Scottish father and a First Nations mother. McDougall travelled through the Okanagan Valley while working for the […]

“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

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 […]