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Roping champion Percy Minnabarriet

Roping champion Percy Minnabarriet

Louis Antoine and La’staa’s great-grandson Percy was a champion calf-roper and All Around Cowboy who won his first steer-riding competition at age 16. In 1979, Pro Rodeo Canada […]
Verna Minnaberriet, “B.C. Indian Princess 1975”

Verna Minnaberriet, “B.C. Indian Princess 1975”

Verna Minnaberriet, great-granddaughter of Louis Joseph Antoine Globe, first becomes Miss Ashcroft and is then crowned as “BC Indian Princess” in 1975. The pageant was sponsored by the […]
Fiddler Jimmy Isnardy

Fiddler Jimmy Isnardy

James “Jimmy” Isnardy (1879-1978), son of Amédée and Julienne Waillamalkwa, attended St. Louis College of the Oblates in New Westminster, where he learned how to play the violin. […]
Joe Hicketts

Joe Hicketts
Geoff Patenaude explains how his children joined him on stage

Geoff Patenaude explains how his children joined him on stage

Transcription “We were called Geoff Patenaude and the Goose Lake Raiders. And that’s what we played as until Expo 86. So when I invited the three girls to […]
Band at Williams Lake barn dance

Band at Williams Lake barn dance

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