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

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 […]

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.

Lord and Lady Aberdeen, 1898

Detail of a formal portrait of Lord and Lady Aberdeen after becoming the Governor General of Canada (1893-1898).

Coutts Marjoribanks and his Ranch Foreman, late 1880s

Coutts Marjoribanks (seated on the left side) with his North Dakota Ranch foreman (‘Bernie’ Kelly) are dressed in their cowboy attire. Coutts, like many other young ‘remittance men’, looked […]