Fish Stories Fish Stories Reford Gardens
This video made for the Z.E.C. de la rivière Mitis presents the strategies developed for the Mitis River to preserve and increase the salmon population in the river. […]
Citadel Quebec July 5th, 1939 Dear Elsie, I must send you a line to say how enormously I enjoyed being at Metis and to thank you and Mr. […]
Life on the river was not only about fishing. It was also about family. Robert and Elsie Reford had two sons; and their two sons each had two […]
Elsie Reford was able to make everything appear elegant. Whether it was fishing or gardening, she was also well turned out, sporting clothing that combined function and form. […]
Owning a river meant protecting it. Even though he had left Canada for England in the 1890s, Lord Mount Stephen continued to own and manage the Metis River. […]
Percy Nobbs was a Montreal architect and professor of architecture – best known today for the building on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal that is now the McCord Museum. […]
Elsie Reford is unusual in the annals of fishing in being a woman and owner of a fishing camp. She was given Estevan Lodge and the fishing rights […]
