Heritage Buildings Preserved

By Corey Fischer

Mar 6, 2019 | 12:30 PM

Some of Enderby’s best known buildings will be included in a new Community Heritage Register for civic buildings.

Council has approved adding City Hall, which was built in 1909, and the Enderby Drill Hall, which opened five years later, as the first two structures on the list.

“A Community Heritage Register is a heritage planning tool that identifies local places which embody a community’s heritage values and character-defining elements,” said Kurt Inglis, City Planner and Deputy Corporate Officer, in a report to council.

Mayor Greg McCune says in addition to raising awareness in the community, it will also allow the city to access government grants to keep the buildings in good shape.

“We’ve had a kind of heritage zone since the early 90’s, which mostly was just heritage homes, so this just takes it one step farther. We’ve got some buildings that obviously are of great heritage value, and there is dollars now to access for repairs and maintenance and that type of thing,” McCune tells Beach Radio News.

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The City says the Enderby Drill Hall on George Street (pictured above) was built with locally-produced bricks in 1914 by the federal government on land donated by Fred Barns, in preparation for the First World War. The building was military in nature but was also used for community events.

It is said to be the last of similar buildings that were built at that time in Western Canada to still be intact.

The City Hall building on Cliff Avenue has been used for council but also as the police office and holding cells, a courtroom, headquarters for the fire department, and a library.

The main facade facing Cliff Avenue remains as it was in 1909, but the rest of the building was added on in 1985, with a library and museum on the bottom floor.

by Corey Fischer