Robert and Henry Pratt were brothers who were the first settlers in central Barnhartvale, British Columbia

Barnhartvale, British Columbia

Barnhartvale, originally Barnhart Vale, is located at the southeast end of Kamloops, south of Dallas in British Columbia, Canada. The area includes riding stables, farms, honey bee farms, and ranches. There is a local store called Happy Valley Foods, and a local elementary school, Robert L....

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Canada

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. 'Pratt Road', a main residential access, is named after them.

Robert Pratt (1870–1935) settled in Barnhartvale in 1890; in 1894 his brother (1863–1943) acquired adjoining crown land south of Robert.

Robert married Helena Todd, daughter of James Todd

James Todd

In 1865, James Todd and his family established a ranch south-east of Kamloops, British Columbia. He and Lewis Campbell could be considered the first settlers of Barnhartvale, British Columbia.- Starting out in North America :...

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By the early 1900s Robert Pratt had a highly successful farm with a large apple orchard. Pratt was among the first in the Interior of British Columbia

British Columbia Interior

The British Columbia Interior or BC Interior or Interior of British Columbia, usually referred to only as the Interior, is one of the three main regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the other two being the Lower Mainland, which comprises the overlapping areas of Greater Vancouver...

 to sell apples commercially, winning a gold medal in 1911 at the International Agricultural Fair in England.