Events Archives | The Francophone Ranchers of British Columbia’s Interior Plateau

The honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of BC

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 […]

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 […]

Father Charles Pandosy

For more information, see the entry on Father Charles Pandosy in the online Dictionary of Canadian Biography, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/pandosy_charles_12E.html

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

Recollections by Daryl Minnabarriet on his great-grandfather’s origins

Daryl Minnabarriet (1947- ) is the only child of Louis Joseph “Joe” Minnabarriet (1911-1981) and Florence Marie Minnabarriet (née Lafleur, 1923-2001), a Métis woman from Saskatchewan. Daryl’s father […]

Barn on the Basque ranch

Marie Agnès Mathilde Delatre

In 1873, Louis Antoine Minaberriet married Marie Agnès Mathilde Delatre, born in New York State of French parents. They had three children: Henri, Clémence (1876-?) and Isabelle (1879-?). […]

The Bar-X Rangers

Joe was the most proficient of the musicians, playing the fiddle, the saxophone and many other instruments. The violin was his favourite instrument. The band played swing and […]

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 […]

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, 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 […]