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

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.

‘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 […]

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 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 […]