Category: Cultivated Rural

108 Mile House

Roadhouses along the Cariboo gold rush trail of the 1860s were identified by their distance from “Mile 0” at Lillooet, BC, so 108 Mile House (or simply “108 […]

Barn on the Basque ranch

Painting of Chimney Creek ranch buildings

Amédée was the first pre-emptor of land at Chimney Creek, south-east of Williams Lake, in the district now named after the Isnardy family. By 1864, he built a […]

The Lequime ranch house

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

Ruins of Gaspard grist mill

At Dog Creek, Isidore Versepuech began to profitably grow several strains of wheat at his new Gaspard ranch. He also opened a flour mill with business partner Charles […]

Ranch house at Grandview ranch

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 […]

Frontier architecture in the Cariboo

 

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 […]

Gertrude Guichon, ranch hand at the Quilchena ranch

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

Guichon family house, Port Guichon

Until a church could be built at Port Guichon, the village’s Catholic services were held in the house’s parlour.