Category: The 1930s

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 […]

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 […]

The Versepuech house

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 […]

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 Circle U ranch at Marten Creek

The original section (l.) was built in 1906 and the addition is from 1914. The house burned down in 1976. Marten Creek and Lake were renamed Patenaude Creek […]