List of historic ranches in British Columbia facts for kids
Ranch | alternate names | locality/region | location/coordinates | Founded | Still operating? | Founder | Current owners | Historic events/owners |
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108 Mile Ranch | South Cariboo | |||||||
Basque Ranch | Fraser Canyon-Big Bar Ferry | family of Garnet Basque, historian | ||||||
Ashcroft Manor | Cornwall Ranch | Thompson Country | 1860s | Lieut-Gov Clement Francis Cornwall | ||||
Boothroyd's | Canyon Gardens | Fraser Canyon-Boston Bar | 1860s | |||||
Bridge Creek Ranch | Bridge Creek Estate | South Cariboo | 51°39′01″N 121°18′27″W / 51.65028°N 121.30750°W | 1912 | Yes | William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter | 5th, 7th and 8th Marquesses of Exeter | |
Chilancoh Ranch | Bayliff's | Chilcotin | 1886 | yes | Hugh Peel Lane Bayliff and Gertrude Louise Jane Lane Bayliff (née Tindall) | R. Hugh L. Bayliff and Hellen L. Bayliff (nee von Harbou) | ||
Coldstream Ranch | Okanagan-Shuswap | Charles Frederick Houghton | Forbes G. and Charles Albert Vernon | |||||
Cottonwood Ranch | Cottonwood | North Cariboo | 53°03′00″N 122°09′15″W / 53.05000°N 122.15417°W | 1860s | ||||
Currie Ranch | Currie's (name of trainstop) | Pemberton-Mount Currie | 1870s | John Currie | ||||
Diamond 'S' Ranch | "Carson's Kingdom" | Pavilion (Fraser Canyon-Lillooet) | 1860s | Robert Carson | ||||
Dominion Ranch | Semlin Ranch | Thompson Country | Charles Semlin, 12th Premier of BC | |||||
Douglas Lake Ranch | Nicola Country | 1886 | "Chunky" Woodward Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom | |||||
Gang Ranch | Chilcotin-Fraser Canyon | 1870s | Saudi Money | |||||
Empire Valley Ranch |
Henry Koster |
Fraser Canyon-Big Bar Ferry | late 1850s | Clarence Bryson since 1956 | ||||
Fintry | Okanagan-Shuswap | |||||||
Giusachan Ranch | Okanagan (Kelowna) | late 1850s | Aberdeen Holdings | Lord Aberdeen | ||||
Gun Creek Ranch | Bridge River Country | |||||||
Hat Creek Ranch | Thompson-Bonaparte | 1860s | ||||||
Hungry Valley Ranch | Chilcotin | John Wells` | ||||||
Monte Creek Ranch | Duck's Ranch | Thompson Country | 1850s | Jacob Duck bought from the original homesteader, a Mexican known only as "Monte" | Hewitt Bostock | |||
Moha Ranch | Bridge River | 1870s | ||||||
O'Keefe Ranch | North Okanagan | 1867 | Cornelius O'Keefe | |||||
'R' Ranch | Similkameen | 1864 | Francis Xavier Richter | Francis Xavier Richter | ||||
Rexmount Ranch | Bridge River | |||||||
Sky Ranch | Chilcotin |
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