Leitch House
Poplar Avenue,
Oak Lake

Designation Date: February 11, 1987
Designation Authority: The Town of Oak Lake
Present Owner: privately owned

This impressive house has important historical connections to the town of Oak Lake. The house was built in 1899 for Malcolm Leitch, a major business figure in Oak Lake. Not only was he the founder of the Leitch Flour Mill operation, he also undertook business operations in Alberta (a coal mine) and British Columbia (lumbering). For several years the Strong family lived here, and Maurice Strong, the famous Canadian businessman, environmentalist and statesman (he was undersecretary-general of the United Nations during the 1980s), was born here in 1929. Architecturally, the building is a novel design with half-timber Tudor-style detailing at the roof line. The house was given the romantic name "Inglewood" by the Leitch family.