Built in 1902, the former Westbourne Post Office once served all of northwestern Manitoba. It is now part of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum.

Westbourne was first named “White Mud River Settlement”, later changed to “Wahputunestee Seepee”, then named for their first missionary, Rev. John West.

One of the largest monuments ever made by the Indian peoples of Manitoba lies next to an old channel of the Whitemud River. Originally, the central mound was 67 x 97 feet in diameter and 8 to 9 feet high, with two linear rides about 400 feet long, a foot and a half high, and 30 to 36 feet across, running in opposite directions.

 In 1871, a party of Scots from Middlesex County, Ontario settled along the Rat Creek and Whitemud River. They were led by Walter Lynch (1835-1908), a member of the Wolseley Expedition of 1870. The 56 settlers advocated a scientific approach to agriculture. In 1871, Donald Stewart, a member of the party, introduced the Province's first successful purebred stock -- Leicester sheep. In 1873 Lynch brought in the first registered Shorthorn cattle. In 1906 Lynch was named the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Manitoba Agriculture College. Besides their contributions to scientific agriculture, members of the Lynch Party and their descendants contributed greatly to the development of the Province. Lynch’s Point was a favorite spot for many family picnics of the early settlers.