- CA OSC ARC 01-3-20-09-033
- File
- 1993
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains photographs, articles and ephemera.
File contains biographical information.
Subseries consists of copied photographic materials attributed to photographer R.D. Symonds per various identifying annotations by Doug Cox. Geographical coverage is predominantly the south Okanagan - Kaleden and Okanagan Falls - with predominant association with the ranching industry.
Reverend A.H. Cameron collection
Reverend A.H. Cameron arrived in Keremeos in 1906 and established a Presbyterian church where he presided as its first minister for many years. He captured a large number of pictures during his tenure, leaving a photographic record of local affairs. Subseries consists of photographs attributed to him.
File contains photocopied photographs.
Richard Cooper and others Tri Lake Recorder
File contains clippings of the “Pioneers” newspaper column.
File contains handwritten notes, copied articles, biographical information, “Copy of Will of Francis Xavier Richter,” photographs and family history.
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.
Rita Daniel Mascot / Golden Zone / Grandoro
File contains photocopied photograph album pages with descriptions.
File contains oral history transcripts.
R.N. Atkinson @ museum (Reginald Noel)
File contains a clipping.
Roadhouses Alvin Johnstone Quesnel
File contains photocopied notes and photographs.
Rob White Kamloops McGillivray Cr. Tod Mtn
File contains oral history transcript, photocopied photographs.
File contains correspondence and oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcript.
Russian horse buy - Also Overton
File contains "The Russian Horse Buy of 1926 and 1927 as told by Sandy Brent."
File contains photocopied correspondence.
Salmon Arm Enderby Armstrong Lumby West + North Okanagan
File contains copied excerpts from Okanagan, Similkameen, Tulameen, copied tear sheets from The Western column; may be used as photo identifiers.
File contains photographs.
File contains oral history transcripts and clipping.
Sandy Brent - himself and cattle
File contains oral history transcript.
Sandy Brent - rodeos and old cowboys
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains oral history transcript.
Subseries comprises the deliberate collecting activity of Ed Villiers and provides documentation of approximately one century of Savona history, which is today west of Kamloops on the shore of Kamloops Lake where the Thompson River has its egress. Originally, Savona was situated on the north shore of Kamloops Lake and represented the terminus of the stage coach line from Cache Creek on the Cariboo Wagon Road. It was also the site of a lake steamboat harbor which carried goods and passengers toward the Shuswap. As rail service was developed on the south shore of Kamloops lake, the decision was made to relocate the town in the 1880s- the relocation was executed by mechanism of pulling structures across the frozen lake during the winter.
Subseries features in large part copied tear sheets of other historical sources, as well as original manuscripts prepared by Ed Villiers for the Savona Community Heritage Committee. Other records include census documents, town directories and other documentation.
Seymour Arm - History Alison Williams
File contains oral history transcript.
Sheep - history in BC - LP Guichon 1953
File contains correspondence, clippings and typewritten history.
SHINGLE CREEK (Sandy Brent - July 1980)
File contains oral history transcript.
File contains "Reminiscences of Shomas O'Carney.”
File contains tear sheets, clippings and transcribed phone conversation.
File contains copied tear sheets. "Ski Development in the Vernon Area" by Carl Wiley. "Vernon's Silver Star Mountain" by the Vernon Branch. "The Irwins, Amber Ski ill and the Olympics" by Margaret F. Mitchell (nee Hunter).
Slide commentary B.C.T.F. NP Mas Blakeburn
File contains notes for slide presentation.
File contains photographs.
South Okanagan Fairview Oliver Osoyoos
File consists of 2 folders. Contains copies of chronology, ID sheets.
File consists of 3 folders. Contains photographs, negatives and contact sheets. Contains labels indicating Ed Aldredge and Lumb Stocks.
File contains Penticton Herald special supplement issue.
File contains identifying notes. Contains labels indicating Joe Harris, Cliff Leslie, Hal Tweddle. Oliver, Keremeos, Penticton.
Stan & Diane Murphy Ray Graham Douglas Lake
File contains notes, correspondence and oral history transcript.
Steamboats on Ok Lk - J.B. Weeks
File contains manuscript “The History of the Steamboats on Okanagan Lake" by J.B. Weeks and copied tear sheet "Joseph B Weeks of Okanagan Lake (1877-1969" by Eric D. Sismey.
Sterling McLeod (Green Mtn + Yellow Lk Rds)
File contains photocopied photographs and maps.
File contains clippings and ephemera.
File contains photocopied photographs.
Stocks Old - used for display etc. considered public domain
File contains photographs.
Stump Lake maps general settlement patterns
File contains photocopies of maps and reports.
File contains clippings, notes, biographical and historical sketches, copy of “White Stump Lake” by Mary Balf.
File contains correspondence, historical information, handwritten notes, copies of maps, site description forms, ecosystem and climate data. “History of Stump Lake Ranch” by Alastair McLean.
File contains letter pertaining to Ed Alredge. Previously contained labels that indicated Ret Tinning, Phil Cooper, Hal Tweddle, George Allen.
File contains contact images on paper (photocopies, poor quality).
File contains Crown Grants and taxation records for Transfers of Land.