As part of the museum aspect of the mission, the
Okanagan Historical Society has gathered together a respectable collection of machines, farm implements, tractors, engines and wagons of yesteryear, a great many of which are 100 years of age or more.
In the southeast corner of the mission grounds is a large collection of farm implements, some under cover, some in the open.
This binder, a type E-M 4, is one of a pair of McCormick Deering binders along the east fence with several other pieces of machinery. This is by far the newer of the two, being on rubber tires and having many slight design improvements over the other, which is on steel wheels. These were made as late as 1938, possibly into the 1940s. McCormick manufactured their first steel binder in 1884, previous binders having been made primarily of wood.