Residential Archives | Advance with Courage: Lord and Lady Aberdeen in the Okanagan Valley

Proposed House for the Aberdeens at Rattlesnake Point, 1895

William Van Horne gave the Aberdeens a sketch for a proposed new house at Rattlesnake Point. The design was of a wood and shingle structure, dominated by a […]

Guisachan House after Rehabilitation, 2015

The Cameron family lived in Guisachan House until it was sold to be subdivided. Paddy Cameron kept a life-lease on the house and the remaining seven acres until […]

Coldstream Ranch Hops Pickers’ Camp, 1905

This is a view of the Nez Perce Indigenous encampment on the Coldstream Ranch. The Nez Perce, Indigenous people of the Plateau, lived on the Columbia River Plateau in […]

Official Opening of Guisachan Heritage Park, 1990

L-R: ?, Al Horning (MP), R.J. Bennett, ?, Cynthia Ellis (COHS president), ?, Lyle MacWilliams (MP), Alastair Gordon, Anne Gordon, Melissa Steele (Girl Guide), ?, ? After COHS […]

The Aberdeens Sampling the Coldstream Apples, c.1895

Back (L-R): Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen Middle (L-R): George, Ebba Wetterman (governess), Marjorie Front (L-R): Archie, Dudley The Aberdeens are on the Coldstream Ranch house verandah holding apples […]

Archie and Marjorie Riding their Bikes, c.1894

Archie and Marjorie are riding their bikes in front of the Coldstream Ranch house. Biking was a good way to explore the farm.

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.