Mission Caretaker's Quarters
Place Description
The historic place is the 1.5-storey Mission Caretaker's Quarters, built around 1900 in the vernacular manner with squared logs and shingles, and now situated as part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission area.
Heritage Value
The log building has a somewhat tenuous connection with the earliest days of settlement in East Kelowna, and a rather stronger one with the Kelowna and District Riding Club. Its main significance today is its heritage educational function as part of (although not historically connected to) the Pandosy Mission historic site.
About 1947 this log building, of indeterminate origin and age, was dismantled and moved from the East Kelowna area to G.D. ('Paddy') Cameron's Guisachan Ranch at 1056-1060 Cameron Avenue, to serve as a clubhouse for the newly-formed Kelowna and District Riding Club. This very British organization revived and carried on genteel traditions of riding sports, which had been popular since the arrival of the earliest English settlers in the area in the 1890s.
In 1958 the riding club moved to its own newly acquired 10-acre grounds and the building was again vacant. Paddy Cameron donated it to the Pandosy Mission and it was moved there in 1968. After being provided with modern amenities, and with two small extensions built on, in 1972 it became the caretaker's quarters, replacing the unattractive mobile home that had previously served the purpose.
The building has heritage value as an example of a modest 1.5-storey structure built of squared logs with dovetail joints, a popular vernacular building type during Kelowna's pioneer era.
Character Defining Elements
- Vernacular 1.5-storey building constructed of squared logs with dovetail joints on the ground floor and frame construction with shingles in the upper gables
- Shed-roofed wing
- Part of the 10-building Pandosy Mission complex
