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Start of the Vernon to Kelowna Bike Race
Boys at Cub Camp at McKinley Landing
Chattertons’ farm in Winfield
Ferry slip at Okanagan Centre
Vernon to Okanagan Mission, taken in Oyama
Gleed father and child, Okanagan Centre
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Marriage

Some months after Dorothea Scott-Coward wed Robert Allison1 she wrote to her sister, Mib (Milborough Mackay), about being a newlywed in a lonely new country. In the letter she tells of the wedding itself (on the doorstep of the church because she was marrying a... [Continue Reading]

During the early years of the fur trade, hundreds of young men moved to Rupert’s Land and the Columbia to work for the North West Company or, after 1821, the amalgamated firm, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). No white women... [Continue Reading]