Description of Historic Place

The File Hills Post Office/Thompson Farm is a Municipal Heritage Property located within the Rural Municipality of Tullymet No. 216 approximately five kilometres south of the Town of Ituna. The property features a farm yard, fieldstone foundation of a barn and a two-storey fieldstone and log post office built in 1900.

Heritage Value

The heritage value of the File Hills Post Office/Thompson Farm lies in the property’s association with the early postal service in the area. The small, vernacular fieldstone and log post office was constructed by the area’s first postmaster, T.G. Morrison, in 1900 on his homestead. The building served that function until 1907 when the postal operations were moved to a different site.

After 1911, the property continued its use as a farmstead, providing a home to Charles and Bertha Thompson, who raised ten children on the property. The farmstead features a shelterbelt and a stone foundation of a barn. In 1989, the Thompson children erected a plaque to commemorate the property’s use as a farmstead.

Source:

Rural Municipality of Tullymet No. 216 Bylaw No. 95-4.

Character-Defining Elements

The heritage value of the File Hills Post Office/Thompson Farm resides in the following character-defining elements:
-those elements that reflect the property’s use as a postal facility, such as its position on its original location and signage;
-log and fieldstone construction
-those elements that reflect the property’s connection to the Thompson family, such as the shelter belt, barn foundation, commemorative plaque and signage.