Satterthwaite House
NE 9-20-15W,
McCreary area

Designation Date: February 9, 1994
Designation Authority: The R.M. of McCreary
Present Owner: privately owned

The Satterthwaite Log House, an early 1880s structure, is situated on the still-visible Burrows Trail, an overland route that linked the towns of Neepawa and Dauphin. The route was named after T.A. Burrows, a local land surveyor. Burrows became a prominent Dauphin businessman and politician, serving as M.L.A. for Dauphin, and later as Manitoba’s Lieutenant-Governor from 1926 to 1929. The house has belonged to descendants of Thomas and Jane Satterthwaite for over a century.

This stopping house, a rare, surviving example of a log structure in southwestern Manitoba, was a much-welcomed site for weary travellers on the Burrows Trail. Its simple form and basic building technology were introduced to the Manitoba landscape by the great wave of Anglo-Ontario pioneers and other settlement groups. The house was restored as part of the development of a heritage wayside park.