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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 ...
Comprising the upper basin of Hat Creek the area is home to some of the oldest ranches in British Columbia. At the area's northeastern edge, near Marble Canyon , large lignite deposits have spurred interest since first discovered by prospectors during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and are the basis of the aborted Hat Creek coal-thermal proposal .
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
With the completion of the CPR, interior ranches gained access to new markets in coastal British Columbia and in southern Alberta, where livestock were in demand for foundation herds. [2] The O’Keefe Ranch, which by the mid-1890s had reached about 12,000 acres, raised cattle and sheep and had large acreages in wheat.
Hat Creek House, 12 km north of Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada, was a roadhouse on the wagon road from Fort Yale to Barkerville.. Hat Creek is a tributary of the Bonaparte River in British Columbia, Canada, [1] joining that stream at Carquile, which is also known as Lower Hat Creek and is the site of the Hat Creek Ranch heritage museum and visitor centre.
The following articles list the historic places in the province of British Columbia, Canada, entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. They are divided by regional districts. British Columbia Coast Alberni-Clayoquot; British Columbia Coast; Capital Region (excluding Victoria) Comox ...
Basque, British Columbia, is located in the province of British Columbia, Canada, near the village of Ashcroft. It is the post office and whistlestop-crossing on the historic Basque Ranch , one of the earliest ranches in the Interior of British Columbia.
Keatley Creek is a significant archaeological site in the interior of British Columbia and in the traditional territory of the St'at'imc peoples. It is located in the Glen Fraser area of the Fraser Canyon ranchlands, about 18 miles from the town of Lillooet on a benchland flanking Keatley Creek, whose name derives from a former ranch owner, and from which the site takes its name.