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

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

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 […]

Map of ranches and sites mentioned in the exhibition

89 ranch (P. Audap) 1 153 Mile ranch (J.P. Patenaude) 2 Basque ranch (L.A. Minaberriet) 3 Boucherie ranch (I. Boucherie) 9 Chapperon Lake ranch (L. & J. Guichon) […]

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

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 […]

Nancy Frances

Nancy Frances (1877-1970) was of the Nlaka’pamux and Nez Perce First Nations. Her Indigenous name was Mourning Dove. She was raised by Chief Timothy Shamahallsee at P’kaist, near […]

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 […]

Deerskin moccasins made by Nancy Frances

Deerskin moccasins made by Nancy Frances, of Nlaka’pamux and Nez Perce descent, wife of Louis Joseph Antoine Globe, son of La’staa and Louis Antoine. She often sold moccasins […]

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-?). […]