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SS Redstar, “Mr. Lequime’s Little Steamer” in 1891

“Mr. Lequime’s little steamer which took us up the Lake to Guisachan.” Watercolour inspired by Lady Aberdeen’s 1891 Kodak photograph as published in Through Canada with a Kodak.

Gate into Guisachan Farm in 1891

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

“First Passenger Train to Vernon. Wed. Oct 14th ’91.”

The Aberdeens were passengers on the first train to Vernon. The train stopped in Enderby where Lady Aberdeen Kodaked the train in the station.

George Grant (G. G.) Mackay, 1891

Mackay, a successful Scottish land promoter, moved to British Columbia in 1888. “We had the advantage of being shown some of the country round Vancouver by an old […]

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 […]

Advertisement for ‘The Kodak Camera’, 1889

The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (1892 renamed Eastman Kodak Company) used the slogan You press the button, we do the rest. The camera was marketed to the […]

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 […]

Three Prairie Families the Aberdeens’ Visited, 1890

L-Mr and Mrs John Campbells home; R-Mr and Mrs Peter Graham’s cottage; The Darough family at Glenfern Lady Aberdeen Kodaked and sometimes drew the English, Irish and Scottish settlers […]

The S.S. Parisian Carried the Aberdeen Family Across the Atlantic Ocean in 1891

“On a fine evening in August we found ourselves dropping down the Mersey on board the s.s. “Parisian” of the Allan Line, one of the largest ships plying […]

Marjoribanks’ Family Crest

The Marjoribanks’ family crest with the motto Advance with Courage.

Scottish Guisachan House Ruins, 2015

Guisachan House in Inverness-shire, Scotland was built in the 1850s by Lord Tweedmouth, Lady Aberdeen’s father, as the family holiday home. Lady Aberdeen named Guisachan House in Kelowna […]