Category: Transport

The second Guichon hotel, New Westminster

Ernest Patenaude at Harper’s camp

Ernest Patenaude, left, at Harper’s Camp, today the village of Horsefly, near the present-day city of Williams Lake BC, 1896.  Alex Meiss is seated in the buggy, and […]

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 […]

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.

Clarence Pigeon in Inuit clothing

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Clarence Pigeon on the St. Roch

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Ranch house at Grandview ranch

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

 

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).    

Port Guichon pier