Trapper's Cabin Site

The heritage value of the Trapper's Cabin Site lies in its status as the only surviving trapper's cabin in the area and in its association with western Canada's once pre-eminent fur industry. The cabin was built and used by Norman Poulin, a local Métis farmer who supplemented his farm income during the depression years of the 1930s by trapping fur-bearing animals along the Wood River. Consisting of an excavation in the river bank originally enclosed with log walls and a brush-and-earth roof, the now dilapidated structure is the only surviving vestige of five similar shelters used by Mr. Poulin as he operated his trapline along the river. Today, the cabin remains are a reminder of a former community member’s resourcefulness in meeting the economic challenges of the Great Depression by exploiting a resource more typically associated with an earlier era of western Canadian history.

Source:

Rural Municipality of Gravelbourg No. 104 Bylaw No. 5/81.