Pandosy Mission Blacksmith Shop

This small log building has heritage value for representing early settlement in the Joe Riche Valley, east of Kelowna. Its main significance today is its heritage educational function as a display facility at (although not historically connected to) the Pandosy Mission historic site.

This small round-log building, estimated on structural evidence alone to have been built around 1900, originally stood beside Highway 33 in the Joe Riche Valley. It was given to the Pandosy Mission in 1974. With volunteer labour and trucks, it was disassembled, the logs numbered and loaded, taken to its present site and reassembled.

At the Pandosy Mission, the building was refurbished and set up as a blacksmith shop as part of the educational display of pioneer life. There is no indication, however, that this was its original function.