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“The Guisachan N.B. Scotch Firs being Planted at Guisachan B.C.”, 1891

Black and white photo of three men and a woman in a field. The man second from the left is on one knee planting fir trees.

Credit: Courtesy of the current Lord Aberdeen

Ishbel Aberdeen’s Kodak photograph from The Guisachan Album, private archives owned by the current Lord Aberdeen.

Lord Aberdeen planting the Scottish fir trees, with Marjorie, Coutts, and Frank Conkling (Guisachan foreman) watching. Unfortunately, the Scotch firs did not survive in the Okanagan climate and were replaced with native western red cedars during their 1894 visit.