St Eugene Mission Church

St Eugene Mission Church, at St Mary's Reserve between Cranbrook and Kimberley, was built in the 1890s for the Kootenay Indians (the Ktunaxa people). It is a good example of a typical Victorian wooden church.

The mission was started by Reverend Father Fouquet, a Catholic priest from the order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Several decades after the St Eugene Mission was built a school was erected which operated from 1912 to 1970 and is the largest historical building in the area.