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

‘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 […]
“White Leghorns at Guisachan B.C.”; “Guisachan Pigs”; “Specimen of a Guisachan Cabbage”; “Guisachan”, 1891

“White Leghorns at Guisachan B.C.”; “Guisachan Pigs”; “Specimen of a Guisachan Cabbage”; “Guisachan”, 1891

Lady Aberdeen, wanting to record the visit, ‘Kodaked’ things that she found interesting such as the animals, vegetables and buildings.
Coldstream, 1898

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

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

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 […]
Okanagan Mission Valley, c.1892

Okanagan Mission Valley, c.1892

View looking northwest towards Okanagan Lake and the Westside.  Guisachan Farm and the Bethel Presbyterian Church are visible, along with a few early buildings. Taken by Vernon photographer […]
Cattle Scene, *Coldstream Ranche*, Vernon B.C., n.d.

Cattle Scene, *Coldstream Ranche*, Vernon B.C., n.d.

Much of the Okanagan Valley was divided into large cattle ranches until the area became overgrazed.
Coutts Marjoribanks and his Ranch Foreman, late 1880s

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 […]
Coldstream Ranch Fruit Orchards, c.1895

Coldstream Ranch Fruit Orchards, c.1895

The Coldstream Ranch land closest to Long  (Kalamalka) Lake was subdivided into fruit lots to attract new settlers and to raise funds to offset some of the Aberdeens’ […]
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