Category: Residential

Indigenous baskets in the Minnabarriet home

For more information on Métis in BC, see https://www.mnbc.ca/about/metis-history

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 […]

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

Nancy Frances

Nancy Frances (1877-1970) was of the Nlaka’pamux and Nez Perce First Nations. Her Indigenous name was Mourning Dove. She was raised by Chief Timothy Shamahallsee at P’kaist, near […]

Deerskin moccasins made by Nancy Frances

Deerskin moccasins made by Nancy Frances, of Nlaka’pamux and Nez Perce descent, wife of Louis Joseph Antoine Globe, son of La’staa and Louis Antoine. She often sold moccasins […]

The Etcheverrito house in Lecumberry, France

       

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 […]

Jimmy and Evelyn Isnardy

Jimmy and his first wife, Christine Bowe (1886-1919) had 5 children: Matilda “Tillie” (1907-1995) Irene Pearl (1908-1995) James Edward “Buster” (1909-1986) Myrtle Dorothy (1912-1995) David Andrew “Sonny” (1914-1988) […]

Mike Isnardy heading out on a cattle drive

Rupert Michael “Mike” Isnardy (1923-2004), eldest child of Jimmy and Evelyn, was well respected as a horseman. On his Springhouse ranch, he raised cattle as well as bucking […]

The Lequime ranch house

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