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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 […]

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

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. […]

Joseph Pigeon’s house

The two-storey ranch house above burned down, so the family had to move into a storage building while a new house was being built. When Joseph retired, he […]

The Patenaude family performing

Ciel and Marin Patenaude (from the l.) perform with Jason and Pharis Romero, along with (not pictured) Brent Morton, Brandon Hoffman and Mark Jenkins during the 10th […]

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 […]

Pharis Romero on coming back to your roots

To view EN or FR subtitles, click on the gear wheel at bottom right of screen while the video is playing. Transcription “I moved back to Horsefly ten […]

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 […]

Band at Williams Lake barn dance

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