After the end of World War Two, a hunting lodge was built on this property by Victor J. Creeden, the General Manager of the Hedley Mascot Gold Mine Company Ltd. Creeden lived in Shaughnessy, and established this as his vacation home. His passion was bird hunting, and he called this “The Old Shoot.” Born in Victoria in 1886, Vic Creeden was a boyhood friend of John Young McCarter, well-known architect and partner in the firm McCarter & Nairne, designers of Vancouver’s Marine Building. Creeden and his wife, Mayme (1888-1960), were lifelong friends of the McCarters. After Vic Creeden passed away in 1963, Joan McCarter (daughter of John Young McCarter) acted as his executor, and as per his wishes, hired a plane to scatter his ashes over “The Old Shoot.”
The property was acquired by Buster Bain, and the barns were built in 1957 to accommodate a dairy operation. The business only lasted five years as the land was too wet. The site retains the lodge, the barns and associated outbuildings, and is still in agricultural use.