Bank Vault, Old Deloraine
NE 30-2-22W,
Deloraine area

Designation Date: October 13, 1993
Designation Authority: The R.M. of Winchester
Present Owner: privately owned

The bank vault at Old Deloraine was built in 1883 by George Rickard, a Deloraine pioneer and stonemason. It was located within a bank erected the same year by brothers A.P. and Frederick Stuart. The fieldstone vault, used for the storage of valuables such as homestead deeds, is all that remains of Old Deloraine. The townsite was located just south of the Old Boundary Commission Trail, the route used by the North West Mounted Police in the great trek west in 1874. In 1886 the settlement of Old Deloraine was moved eight kilometres southeast of the original site in order to be nearer the railway.

The structure is comprised of a large barrel vault with high, rounded end walls. The freestanding bank vault is constructed from native granite fieldstone reinforced by mortar and iron rods. It is one of the earliest examples of granite fieldstone construction in Manitoba.