Category: Male

Isidore Boucherie with “old-timers” of the Okanagan

Isidore Boucherie is seated second from the right. Luc Girouard, the first European settler at Vernon stands second from the right. Bernard Lequime, son of Éli Lequime, the […]

“Old-timers” of the Okanagan

Isidore Boucherie is seated second from the right. Luc Girouard, the first European settler at Vernon stands second from the right. Bernard Lequime, son of Éli Lequime, the […]

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, […]

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

Joe Hicketts

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, […]

Bryson Patenaude and client with bear kill

Poster of Rusty Patenaude