Category: Landscape

Jimmy and Evelyn Isnardy

Jimmy and his first wife, Christine Bowe (1886-1919) had 5 children: Matilda “Tillie” (1907-1995) Irene Pearl (1908-1995) James Edward “Buster” (1909-1986) Myrtle Dorothy (1912-1995) David Andrew “Sonny” (1914-1988) […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

The Versepuech house

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 […]

Clarence Pigeon in Inuit clothing

For more information, see “Operation Musk Ox” on Wikipedia

Clarence Pigeon on the St. Roch

For more information, see also Operation Musk Ox on Wikipedia

Ranch house at Grandview ranch

Jessie Pigeon, née Sinclair

In a 1975 CBC interview, Jessie Sinclair explained her work. She was the first woman in BC to hold these positions, as of 1928 in Williams Lake: “[As […]

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 […]