Marine 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 […]

“Kelowna” Painted by Lady Aberdeen, c. 1894

This is a landscape watercolour painted by Lady Aberdeen. It may have been painted on one of the Aberdeens’ trips on the SS Aberdeen steamboat on Lake Okanagan. […]

S.S. Aberdeen Steamship, c.1895

This is a photo postcard of the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) steamship, named in honour of Lord Aberdeen. The S.S. Aberdeen was launched on May 22, 1893 and […]

View North Towards Long Lake, c.1890

Photo postcard looking north towards the land bridge between Woods Lake and Long Lake (Kalamalka Lake).

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).

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 […]

The Aberdeens Arrive in the Okanagan Valley

The Aberdeens arrive in the Okanagan Valley, October 14th, 1891 October 14th, 1891. Vernon, Sicamous, Guisachan. Here we are at last at our destination! The starting of the first […]

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.