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

Hops, Coldstream Ranch, n.d.

Hops were grown to help with expenses while the Aberdeens were waiting for the fruit trees to mature.

Coldstream Ranch Packinghouse, 1905

The packinghouse was built on the Coldstream Ranch in the 1890s. The building, although its use has changed, still exists today.

Aberdeen Jam Factory in Vernon, 1912

The 1892 jam factory is the one-storey building with a high stack to the left of the Vernon Flour Mill and S.C. Smith’s Sawmill. “The jam-factory which H.E. […]

Guisachan Farm Hop Fields, c.1892

Guisachan Farm’s hop fields taken by photographer Ernest Brown, c. 1892.

Coldstream Ranch Hop Fields, c.1900

Young hop fields at Coldstream Ranch, with three men with horse teams walking the edge of the field.

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 […]

H. P. Lee Real Estate Advertisement, n.d.

This advertisement was aimed at attracting new settlers to the Okanagan Valley, for its good weather and lifestyle in fruit farming.

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 […]

‘Aberdeen Estates’ Fruit Farms Advertisement in the Vernon News, 1892

An advertisement for the sale of the ‘Aberdeen Estates’ fruit farms was placed in the April 7, 1892 Vernon News. Mackay placed many ads to help sell the Coldstream […]

Mackay’s plan for the New Townsite of Benvoulin, 1891

Mackay’s 1891 plan for the Benvoulin townsite, which was amended in 1937. The Benvoulin townsite never really came to fruition, as Bernard Lequime filed his new Kelowna townsite […]

Mackay’s Advertisement for “Fruit Farms for Sale”, 1891

This advertisement, to sell 10-40 acre lots for fruit farms in the Okanagan Mission, was put into the local paper, the Vernon News, by G.G. Mackay & Son […]

The 1888 Kodak Camera

This is the same model of camera that Lady Aberdeen purchased for her trip to Canada. The original Kodak camera, developed by George Eastman in Rochester NY, made […]