Margaret A. Ormsby’s Coldstream: Nulli Secundus provides a comprehensive spatial and institutional chronicle of the Coldstream Valley and its surrounding municipality east of Vernon. Ormsby details how the foundational 1860s cattle pre-emptions of Charles Houghton and Forbes George Vernon were established across ancestral Syilx and Secwépemc territories, later evolving into the legendary Coldstream Ranch under the ownership of the Earl of Aberdeen. The narrative documents the transition of pastoral benchlands into commercial orchards and hop yards, analyzing the engineering of private irrigation ditches and flumes that preceded formal municipal incorporation in 1906. Ormsby highlights the social stratification of English gentry settlement throughout Lavington and Coldstream, recording how corporate agricultural capital and cooperative packing houses established the community as an economic cornerstone of the North Okanagan.

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Published by the Coldstream Municipality. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published by the Coldstream Municipality. Includes bibliographical references and index.