List of historic ranches in British Columbia
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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 | |||||||
Fraser Canyon-Big Bar Ferry | family of , historian | |||||||
Ashcroft Manor | Cornwall Ranch | Thompson Country | 1860s | Lieut-Gov Clement Francis Cornwall | ||||
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 [1] | Yes | William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter | 5th, 7th and 8th Marquesses of Exeter | |
Chilcotin | 1886 | yes | and | and | ||||
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's (name of trainstop) | Pemberton-Mount Currie | 1870s | ||||||
"Carson's Kingdom" | Pavilion (Fraser Canyon-Lillooet) | 1860s | ||||||
Semlin Ranch | Thompson Country | Charles Semlin, 12th Premier of BC | ||||||
Douglas Lake Ranch | Nicola Country | 1886 | Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom | |||||
Gang Ranch | Chilcotin-Fraser Canyon | 1870s | Saudi Money | |||||
Empire Valley Ranch | Fraser Canyon-Big Bar Ferry | late 1850s | Clarence Bryson since 1956 | |||||
Fintry | Okanagan-Shuswap | |||||||
Okanagan (Kelowna) | late 1850s | Aberdeen Holdings | Lord Aberdeen[3]
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Bridge River Country | ||||||||
Thompson-Bonaparte | 1860s | |||||||
Chilcotin | ` | |||||||
Monte Creek Ranch | Duck's Ranch | Thompson Country | 1850s | Jacob Duck bought from the original homesteader, a Mexican known only as "Monte" | Hewitt Bostock | |||
Bridge River | 1870s | |||||||
O'Keefe Ranch | North Okanagan | 1867 | ||||||
Similkameen | 1864 | Francis Xavier Richter | Francis Xavier Richter | |||||
Bridge River | ||||||||
Sky Ranch | Chilcotin |
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