Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre

It was renamed as the Summerland Research Station in 1959 after the addition of plant pathology and entomology laboratories,[2] and later combined with a nearby experimental farm (at Agassiz, British Columbia) to form the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in 1996.

[2] The collection, one of the largest of its kind in the world, includes more than 350 isolated strains of 160 viruses, which are available for use as reference material in the event of viral outbreaks.

[17] The former superintendent's residence at the centre is a listed site at the Canadian Register of Historic Places since 1990.

Constructed between 1923 and 1926, the house is set within a private garden within the research station, and is the oldest surviving structure at the site.

Initially built to house the station superintendent, it has not been used for that purpose since 1969, instead being used for an administration building, library, and museum.