Cultivated Rural 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.

Apple Orchard, Coldstream Ranch, 1900-1910

“When we came here, irrigation was not considered a necessity either for fruit or hops but our own experience & that of the settlers who have bought lots […]

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.

Prunes, Coldstream Orchards, c. 1910

Man standing on the back end of a wagon loaded with the Coldstream Ranch prune plum harvest.

Coldstream Ranch, 2018

The Coldstream Ranch continues as a working ranch for cattle, horses, grains, and some fruit orchards. Coldstream Ranch

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 […]

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.

“The Guisachan N.B. Scotch Firs being Planted at Guisachan B.C.”, 1891

Lord Aberdeen planting the Scottish fir trees, with Marjorie, Coutts, and Frank Conkling (Guisachan foreman) watching. Unfortunately, the Scotch firs did not survive in the Okanagan climate and […]