- CA OSC ARC 01-3-11-OS2-001
- File
- 1923-1934
File contains Crown Grants and taxation records for Transfers of Land.
File contains Crown Grants and taxation records for Transfers of Land.
Landscapes showing developing infrastructure in the interior of British Columbia in the later 19th and early 20th century, with especially robust coverage of the construction of railroads and bridges, as well as some mining operations. Features group portraits of work crews.
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Penticton Herald photograph collection
Subseries consists of an acquisition by Doug Cox of a Collection of photographic negatives from the newspaper The Penticton Herald.
Coverage includes themes such as the cultural events, sports, rodeo, telecommunications, buildings and community infrastructure, aviation, industry, disasters.
Historical ranching research collection
Subseries consists of materials compiled in service of Cox’s book, Ranching Now, Then and Way Back When.
Richter and Tweddle families collection
Biographical sketches
The Tweddle and Richter families of the Similkameen and South Okanagan are linked primarily by Florence Elizabeth Loudon. Loudon was married first to F.X. Richter; after Richter’s death, she remarried Haliburton Tweddle.
Richter: Francis Xavier Richter (1837-1910) was born in Freidland, Bohemia on November 5, 1837. In 1864 arrived in the Okanagan/Similkameen area to start cattle ranching. He and Lucy Simla (1846-1903, also notated as Lucy simla Acat, also notated as Lucy Sʔímlaʔxʷ), a member of what is now the Okanagan First Nation of Vernon, BC, were married in 1867 or 1868. They had 5 sons: Charles (1869-1949), William (1872-1922), Joseph (1874-1971), Edward (1876-1971), and John “Hans” Richter (1877-1961).
Prior to the death of Lucy Simla, F.X. Richter married Florence Elizabeth Loudon (1877 – 1959) in 1894 and subsequently fathered six more children: Betty, Freida, Frances, Helen, Kathleen, Francis X. Richter, Jr. F.X. Richter’s and Lucy Simla’s oldest son, Charles, married Florence Loudon’s sister, Ada, in 1900.
Richter has been described as being responsible for starting the fruit industry in the Similkameen Valley and he had a major orchard operation.
Tweddle: Haliburton “Harry” Tweddle (1876-1957) married Florence Elizabeth Richter (née Loudon, F.X. Richter’s second wife and widow) in 1912. They had 4 children: Haliburton T. (Hal), Margaret, Eileen, and Willa.
Harry Tweddle owned the Central Hotel in Keremeos, B.C., and operated a ranch, livery stable and stage line serving the Similkameen Valley.
Hal Tweddle married Alice Brent. Certain currents of Brent family documentation are seen in this collection. See also the Brent family collection.
Scope and content
Subseries consists of photographic and textual documentation of the F.X. Richter and later Halliburton Tweddle families in the South Okanagan and Similkameen regions. Photographic subject matter treats themes of ranching and orcharding; textual records include copies of correspondence, wills, family trees.
File consists of 2 folders. File contains photographs.
File consists of 2 folders. File contains photographs.
Margaret Newstrom (Tweddle) 1993 Keremeos
File contains oral history transcript.
Biographical sketch
Lumb Stocks (b. 1887 in Leicester, England, d. 1947 in Penticton, BC) immigrated to Kelowna in 1910. He traveled back in England in 1915 to marry his wife, Marion. Together they had five children: Peter, Beryl, Jack, Daphne, and David.
In Vernon, Stocks purchased a camera from G.H.E. “Huddy” Hudson. Soon Stocks was offered a job by Hudson and he joined his photography studio. He became a partner and took over operations of the firm in 1916 when Hudson returned to England during WWI, renaming the enterprise “Hudson-Stocks & Co.” After deciding to stay permanently in England, Hudson asked Stocks in 1918 to buy out his partnership. Instead Stocks made a purchase from Hudson and his Penticton partner, Ken Chadwick, for the photography firm there and moved his family to the Penticton area.
Lumb Stocks’ second son, Jack Stocks, took over the business upon his father’s death in 1947, and maintained the Stocks Photography until his own untimely death in 1979.
Scope and content
Subseries consists of photographic record captured by Lumb Stocks and/or Jack Stocks and/or on behalf of Stocks Camera Shop, Penticton BC. These are commercial, professional photographs and the Collection features an insignificant number of portraits or candid shots. The majority of the photographs were created during the lifetime of Lumb Stocks, and a minority by Jack Stocks, his successor.
Subseries documents landscapes, city scenes, events, disasters, buildings, and landmarks associated with Penticton, BC, primarily during the first half of the twentieth century.
Suite of postcards features a small subset of hand-tinted examples.
File contains tear sheets from Cox’s Okanagan Similkameen Tulameen.
Logging heritage. Alternative title: Logging heritage of British Columbia and Washington USA.
File contains photographs and contact sheets.
Atkinson, Arnold cowboy wked @ Green Mountain
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains autobiography.
File contains chapter excerpt from The Okanagan Brigade Trail in the South Okanagan 1811-1849 and handwritten notes.
Phillip Cooper Born in Penticton
File contains oral history transcript.
Chinese in Ashcroft Alfred Chow.
File contains copied and annotated photographs and “The Chinese in Ashcroft” by Alfred Chow.
File contains oral history transcripts.
File contains oral history transcripts and annotations.
File contains drafts of "The Okanagan's Semi-Desert."
Grist Mill – Keremeos Cuyler Page
File contains "Okanagan/Similkameen Pioneer Settlement Flour Mills" by Cuyler Page, clipping and ephemera.
File contains oral history transcript and handwritten notes.
Dr. John Gibson Penticton Dr. + historian
File contains oral history transcript and handwritten notes.
File contains fax from Ministry of Transportation & Highways re: Penticton Indian Band – Penticton Indian Reserve No. 1, Green Mountain Road No. 78.
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains historical sketch.
File contains copy of handwritten journal.
File contains biographical sketch.
Sterling McLeod (Green Mtn + Yellow Lk Rds)
File contains photocopied photographs and maps.
File contains handwritten notes.
File contains oral history transcripts and articles.
File contains handwritten correspondence and oral history transcript.
File contains handwritten notes and "Early History of Okanagan Falls and Pioneers of Yesteryear" by Mrs. Andrew J.(Myrtle) McLean.
File contains photocopied correspondence.
Okanagan Mtn Plane Crash Dec 23 1950
File contains photographs, handwritten notes and copied clippings.
File contains “Okanagan Basin Agreement Prelim. Study Data” - Bulletin No. 1-10 and “Okanagan Alternatives White Papers” No.1, No. 2.
1877 Okanagan Similkameen Residents
File contains copied census data from book.
Marjorie Punnet Hugh Leir’s daughter
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcripts.
File contains oral history transcripts, handwritten notes and photocopied photographs.
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains duplicate transcript as 08-096.
File contains photographs, articles and ephemera.
Slide commentary B.C.T.F. NP Mas Blakeburn
File contains notes for slide presentation.
Seymour Arm - History Alison Williams
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcript.
Daly-Florence Willis Pack Train Over the Skyline
File contains handwritten and typed manuscript by Florence Daly-Willis.
Keremeos rodeo #2 Keremeos. Alternative title: Keremeos rodeo volume 2
File contains rodeo programs.
Joe Bromley upper K. - N.P. cattle
File contains correspondence, biographical sketch and oral history transcript.
Kehoe Jim (Bridesville rancher Aug 83)
File contains oral history transcript.