Category: Agriculture

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 […]

Family of Moïse Pigeon

While the family’s sons worked mostly on the ranch, Teresa sent her daughters to school in New Westminster to ensure their education. When Moses died, Teresa passed the […]

Ranch house at Grandview ranch

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 […]

Frontier architecture in the Cariboo

 

On the range at the Guichon ranch

Gertrude Guichon, ranch hand at the Quilchena ranch

Louis Joseph Antoine Globe Minaberriet’s barn at the Basque ranch

Guichon family house, Port Guichon

Until a church could be built at Port Guichon, the village’s Catholic services were held in the house’s parlour.

Guichon boys at the ranch forge