Category: Agricultural

Ernest Patenaude at Harper’s camp

Ernest Patenaude, left, at Harper’s Camp, today the village of Horsefly, near the present-day city of Williams Lake BC, 1896.  Alex Meiss is seated in the buggy, and […]

Map of ranches and sites mentioned in the exhibition

89 ranch (P. Audap)  1 153 Mile ranch (J.P. Patenaude)        2 Basque ranch (L.A. Minaberriet)        3 Boucherie ranch (I. Boucherie)          9 Chapperon Lake ranch (L. & J. Guichon)        […]

108 Mile House

Roadhouses along the Cariboo gold rush trail of the 1860s were identified by their distance from “Mile 0” at Lillooet, BC, so 108 Mile House (or simply “108 […]

Statue of Father Charles Pandosy

For more information on the sculpture, see https://sites.google.com/site/pandosysculpture/ For more information on the Mission site, see http://fatherpandosy.com and https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3331 For more information on the Brothers’ Dwelling, see https://www.kelowna.ca/our-community/arts-culture-heritage/heritage/heritage-register/brothers-dwelling-house

Barn on the Basque ranch

Painting of Chimney Creek ranch buildings

Amédée was the first pre-emptor of land at Chimney Creek, south-east of Williams Lake, in the district now named after the Isnardy family. By 1864, he built a […]

The Lequime ranch house

The residence on the Lequime ranch, beside their first general store, 1872.

Ruins of Gaspard grist mill

At Dog Creek, Isidore Versepuech began to profitably grow several strains of wheat at his new Gaspard ranch. He also opened a flour mill with business partner Charles […]

Frontier architecture in the Cariboo

 

Gertrude Guichon, ranch hand at the Quilchena ranch

Louis Joseph Antoine Globe Minaberriet’s barn at the Basque ranch

Band at Williams Lake barn dance

Second from the right, Jimmy Isnardy joins the dance band at Williams Lake, early 1960s.