People Archives | Page 4 of 5 | The Francophone Ranchers of British Columbia’s Interior Plateau

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, […]

Frontier architecture in the Cariboo

Brothers Rusty and Roger Patenaude on the origins of the 53 Mile Ranch

Transcription ROGER – “The general store is what brought us to the 53 because my Grandpa Bryson went to work for the women that ran the store, the […]

J.P. Patenaude and family members

The family patriarch often played on the J.P. acronym of his name and his title (Justice of the Peace).

Bryson Patenaude and client with bear kill

Bryson Patenaude’s family with pet bear cub

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 […]

The Patenaude family performing

Ciel and Marin Patenaude (from the l.) perform with Jason and Pharis Romero, along with (not pictured) Brent Morton, Brandon Hoffman and Mark Jenkins during the 10th […]

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 […]