Category: Commercial

The second Guichon hotel, New Westminster

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 […]

Minabarriet men in military uniform

Many Indigenous youth choose to serve in the Armed Forces during wartime, including three of Louis Joseph Antoine Globe Minaberriet’s sons. During the Second World War, Peter served […]

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

 

Bryson Patenaude’s family with pet bear cub

The Quilchena hotel in Quilchena

Gerard Guichon’s cousin Guy Rose (son of Joseph’s daughter Virginia) and his wife Hilde acquired the hotel and an important portion of the ranch, which became the Quilchena […]

Guichon hotel, Port Guichon