This homestead style building reflects the presence and organization of early farmers who settled in the Strawberry Hill neighbourhood.

Strawberry Hill Farmers Institute

 

Heritage Area: Strawberry Hill

Site #: 113

Location: 12152-75 Avenue

Registered: Nov. 2, 1998

Significance: Historical, Cultural

Description: Utilitarian homestead style, built c. 1909, originally used as Farmers Institute Hall. Centre of social and recreational activity for area farmers known for growing strawberries, the first by Japanese who tended small cultivated spots between stumps of old growth forest.

Listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places