Category: Animals

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mike Isnardy’s prize saddle

Some of Mike Isnardy’s winnings are now artifacts at the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame, Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin, Williams Lake, including the prize saddle presented to […]

The Lequime ranch house

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

Frontier architecture in the Cariboo

 

Bryson Patenaude and client with bear kill

Bryson Patenaude’s family with pet bear cub

Hope Patenaude at the telegraph key

Hope Patenaude was a cougar bounty hunter for years, which evolved into champion trap-shooting.  

On the range at the Guichon ranch

Louis Joseph Antoine Globe Minaberriet’s barn at the Basque ranch