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In addition to Trethewey House, Trethewey House Heritage Site also boasts several other buildings and features onsite, notably the Carriage House, Joey’s Playhouse, the Upper Sumas Train Station and the Sylvia Pincott Heritage Gardens.

Located next to Trethewey House is the Heritage Gallery, a reproduction of an original building used to house the family’s automobiles and horses. In the Heritage Gallery, you can find our exhibition space, currently featuring the exhibit “The River People and the Land: Living within S’ólh Téméxw.” The building, along with Joey’s Playhouse, was rebuilt with the support of a BC Community Spirit Abbotsford 2000 grant funded by the Province of British Columbia and the MSA Museum Society (now Heritage Abbotsford Society). Today, Joey’s Playhouse serves as a one-room 1920’s classroom.

The site also boasts the Upper Sumas British Columbia Electric Railway (“BCER”) station. Originally situated at the corner of Lamson and Vye Road on Sumas Prairie, the station was a stop along the Chilliwack Line which skirted the southern shore of Sumas Lake prior to drainage. Construction of the Chilliwack Line between New Westminster and Chilliwack concluded in 1910.

The Sylvia Pincott Heritage Garden was opened in 2002 and was named after local environmentalist Sylvia Pincott, founder of Abbotsford’s Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program and leading advocate for the establishment of the Naturescape program, a provincial initiative.