Eatonia is home to a heritage park

By Joan Janzen

If you happen to drive through Eatonia and have some free time, you could pull in to see Eatonia’s Heritage Park. Hayden Beaupre is a capable guide who gives summertime tours every afternoon.

The Eaton House is a cool escape from the heat and the mosquitoes.

Hayden gives tours of Eatonia’s Heritage Park every afternoon. Here, he is standing in the kitchen of the Eaton House. Photo by Joan Janzen

The two-storey wood frame house was constructed by a local family in 1917 and was relocated to the heritage park. It’s located near the Heritage Park’s train caboose. The “pattern-book” house, was purchased from a T. Eaton Company mail-order catalogue, which was a common practice in the early 1900s. Typical features from that period include a front verandah, rear porch, shake shingles and clapboard siding.

The interior holds the original heating and lighting fixtures, plaster and lath walls and ceilings and original floor plan. Hayden is there to answer all your questions about the history of the heritage home and the train station.

The combination freight and passenger two-storey wood station was built in 1924 and is a valuable addition to Eatonia’s Heritage Park. The town’s library is housed in the former freight room. The station is one of the few survivors of its kind in Saskatchewan remaining on its original location.

It’s definitely a worthwhile visit for anyone who stops in for a visit.