ELDORENA Settlers began to arrive within the vicinity of present-day Eldorena as early as 1887.
FORT WHITE EARTH AND THE GRIST MILL Downstream from Victoria, near the confluence of the White Earth and North Saskatchewan Rivers, are the remains of another, earlier, fur trading post. It was known as Fort White Earth, or Lower Terre Blanche.
FRANK MITCHELL'S MUSEUM Mitchell’s museum building is itself something of an artefact. It is the former home of Benjamin Sinclair Jr., who held the patent title on River Lot 10 of the Lobstick Settlement.
HBC CLERK'S QUARTERS 1864 The Clerk’s Quarters was the home of the senior Hudson’s Bay Company official at Victoria Post.
HOLY TRANSFIGURATION CHURCH The first church within the Lobstick Settlement was Anglican. It was named “St. Columba of Iona and St. Kentigern, North Bank”, and was created on November 21, 1908 by Bishop Cyprian of Calgary.
JACK PINE GROVE SCHOOL In 1910, a wood frame, one-room schoolhouse was erected on SW 3-58-20-W4, just west of the crossroads which later became the centre of Eldorena.
LOBSTICK SETTLEMENT A lobstick is an evergreen tree, chosen for its size and prominent or significant location – for instance on the bank of a river where there was a good crossing place – which has had all its lower limbs removed.
LOG BUILDING The Cook family had a considerable impact on the area. In early days, their home was known as a “stopping place”, where travellers could find a hospitable welcome.
MCDONALD HOMESTEAD Samuel McDonald came west from Ontario in 1906. By 1908 he had built a substantial log house here, just north of the Victoria Trail beside Pine Creek.
