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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.

Joseph Pigeon

Born in 1843 in Roxton Pond QC, died in 1935 in Agassiz BC. Though illiterate, Joseph was a tailor then a hotelier in Roxton Pond QC. In retirement, […]

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

Joe Hicketts

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 […]

Percy Pigeon

The exploits of the Dambuster Squadron, Percy Pigeon’s flight crew, became the subject of the popular 1955 British film ”The Dam Busters”, and the surviving participants, including Percy, […]

Poster of Rusty Patenaude

Rusty Patenaude speaks of his hockey career

Transcription “So I was in Edmonton for basically six years. Then the league had trouble in Indianapolis. The owner in Edmonton was Skalbania and he was talked into […]

Hope Patenaude at the telegraph key

Hope Patenaude was a cougar bounty hunter for years, which evolved into champion trap-shooting.

Author Branwen C. Patenaude

Branwen Patenaude was born of British parents in Shanghai, China, where she and her brothers lived a sheltered childhood. The family moved to West Vancouver in 1941, and […]

Geoff Patenaude explains how his children joined him on stage

Transcription “We were called Geoff Patenaude and the Goose Lake Raiders. And that’s what we played as until Expo 86. So when I invited the three girls to […]