Category: Formal Portrait

Moïse “Moses” Pigeon

Moïse Pigeon (1841-1900), also known as “Moses”, circa 1880. Source: Don Logan, Dog Creek: 100 Years, Trafford Publishing, 2007, p.7  

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

Louis Antoine Minaberriet

Louis Antoine Minaberriet is considered the first Basque in BC, arriving around 1858, looking for gold in the Thompson valley. Some two years later, Louis Antoine returned to […]

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-?). […]

Sons of Amédée and Julianne Isnardy

No photo exists of Amédée Isnardy or Julianne Waillamalkwa, the parents of these young men. Note the very Mexican tone of the hats and jackets. Many cowboys in […]

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. […]

Isidore Boucherie with “old-timers” of the Okanagan

Isidore Boucherie is seated second from the right. Luc Girouard, the first European settler at Vernon stands second from the right. Bernard Lequime, son of Éli Lequime, the […]

“Old-timers” of the Okanagan

Isidore Boucherie is seated second from the right. Luc Girouard, the first European settler at Vernon stands second from the right. Bernard Lequime, son of Éli Lequime, the […]

Éli Lequime

No photo exists of Éli’s wife, Marie-Louise. Éli, Marie-Louise and the family of their daughter Aminade eventually settled in San Francisco, leaving behind the flourishing town of Kelowna.

The Versepuech family

Mootla was the daughter of Koteminak and Cormenaskat of the Dog Creek Band (today, the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation). Mootla and Isidore’s son Édouard became a champion golfer […]

Joseph Pigeon family members

Ernest was the eldest of the children of Joseph and Josephte Arthurine “Athénaïse” née Blain. Some French was spoken in the family, and an elderly Marie Anna was […]

Pierre François-Xavier Ernest and Adélina Cadieux