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Credits

The Central Okanagan Heritage Society thanks the following organizations and individuals:

  • Current Lord Aberdeen, Alexander Aberdeen, Marquess of Aberdeen
  • Canada Science and Technology Museum
  • Duke University Libraries
  • Kamloops Land Title Office Archives
  • Kelowna Museums Public Archives
  • Lake Country Museum & Archives
  • Library and Archives Canada
  • Mackie Lake House Foundation Archives
  • Okanagan Historical Society
  • Provincial Archives of Alberta
  • Royal BC Museum and Archives
  • Vernon Museum and Archives
  • Westbank First Nations (WFN)
  • Accurate Translations
  • COHS & Community Volunteers, staff, resources for the project: Carolyn MacHardy, Bob Hayes, Tara Hurley, Madelaine Albert, Alexandra Dauncey-Elwood, Jim Elwood, Ursula Surtees, Wayne Wilson, Sandra Harwood, Riley Grandel, Alicia van der Sluijs, Shannon Jorgenson, Lorri Dauncey

Research Sources:

  • COHS Fonds
  • Okanagan Historical Society (OHS) Reports
  • Private Archives Owned by the Current Lord Aberdeen
  • Vernon News
  • Westbank First Nations
  • Aberdeen, Lord and Lady. “We Twa” Reminiscences of Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Volume 1 & 2. W. Collins and Son, 1925
  • Aberdeen, The Countess of. Through Canada with a Kodak, H. White, 1893. (Reprint with introduction by Marjory Harper, University of Toronto Press, 1994)
  • Affleck, Edward Lloyd. “A Chronicle of Steam Transportation in Southeastern British Columbia”, 1958
  • Duffy, Dennis & David Mitchell (compiled & edited by). “Bright Sunshine and a Brand New Country, Recollections of the Okanagan Valley 1890-1914,” Sound Heritage Volume VIII, Number 3, 1979
  • Holliday, C.W. The Valley of Youth. Caxton Printers Ltd, Caldwell, 1948
  • MacHardy, “Kodaking and Being Kodaked: The Guisachan Album of Ishbel, Lady Aberdeen,“ Journal of Canadian Art History XXXIV:2 (2013), 179-210
  • McFarlane, Larry. “British Remittance Men as Ranchers: The Case of Coutts Marjoribanks and Edmund Thursby, 1884-95,” Great Plains Quarterly 11, 1991, 53-69
  • McLarty, Hugh. “The Grand Opening and History of Guisachan Heritage Park,” OHS 54th Report, 1990, 7-17
  • Middleton, R.M. (annotated and edited by). The Journal of Lady Aberdeen, The Okanagan Valley in the Nineties. Morriss Publishing, 1986
  • Ormsby, Margaret. Coldstream-Nulli Secundus. Friesen, 1990
  • Pearson, Anne. “An Early History of Coldstream & Lavington,” 1986
  • Pentland, Marjorie. A Bonnie Fechter: The Life of Ishbel Marjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. T. Batsford, 1952
  • Pentland, Marjorie. “Salute By An Oldtimer,” OHS 18th Report, 1954, 6-11
  • Shackleton, Doris. Ishbel & the Empire: A Biography of Lady Aberdeen. Dundurn Press, 1988
  • Shackleton, Doris. “Lord and Lady Aberdeen: Their Okanagan Ranches”, The Beaver, Autumn 1981, 10-18
  • Strong-Boag, Veronica. Liberal Hearts and Coronets, The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks & Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens. University of Toronto Press, 2015
  • Yoshitake Wuest, Donna. Coldstream: The Ranch Where It All Began. Harbour Publishing, 2005
  • Zuehlke, Mark. Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons, British Remittance Men in the Canadian West.  Harbour Publishing, BC, 2016

 Direct Quote Sources:

  • The Journal of Lady Aberdeen, The Okanagan Valley in the Nineties
  • Through Canada with a Kodak
  • A Bonnie Fechter: The Life of Ishbel Marjoribanks, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
  • Ishbel & the Empire: A Biography of Lady Aberdeen
  • Dreamers & Second Sons, British Remittance Men in the Canadian West
  • Westbank First Nations: wfn.ca/our-community/community-profile/history.htm

 

 

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