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Aberdeens’ Coldstream Ranch House, 1890s

Black and white photo of the front and side of a two-storey house with a wrap-around verandah and balcony. There are two children standing in front of the house.

Credit: Royal BC Museum and Archives #E-00044

This was the Aberdeens’ home when they visited Coldstream Ranch.

“…there is a wonderful charm in feeling that one is once more on one’s own domain & that one need not ask permission from the Government before moving a plank or ordering a plate or a duster. And then it is the first time that we have been en famille absolutely since we came to Canada…”

Excerpt from Lady Aberdeen’s Journal, October 30th, 1894