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Historical Research at the WDM
August 7, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
As a human history museum, our research methods are rooted in best practices in traditional archival research, in new and emerging standards in community-engaged scholarship and in exciting advances in…
Taking Charge of Health – A Brief History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Saskatchewan
February 24, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
While working on our ongoing Fire Code Compliance Project, Arden, one of our volunteers, and I were busy inventorying another batch of artifacts. As we went through the items, we…
Names, Numbers and Narratives: Hidden Stories in City Directories, a Three-Part Series. Part 3
February 3, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services CentreSaskatoon
Growing up, I loved looking through the Sears catalogue, especially around the Christmas holiday season. I made my wish list for the holidays, dreaming of the toys plastered on the…
Names, Numbers and Narratives: Hidden Stories in City Directories, a Three-Part Series. Part 2
January 27, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services CentreSaskatoon
How often do you read the terms and conditions on a website when creating a user profile? If I am honest, I do not thoroughly read the terms; I scan…
Names, Numbers and Narratives: Hidden Stories in City Directories, a Three-Part Series. Part 1
January 20, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services CentreSaskatoon
When was the last time you pulled out a phone book, a city directory, or an address book with a carefully curated list of friends and family phone numbers? Some…
Behind The Scenes in Collections Storage – Improving Artifact Storage
January 14, 2025
Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre
The Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre is embarking on a large-scale collections project to implement critical upgrades in artifact storage to meet fire code regulations. This work will ensure that…
The Restoration of Saskatoon Municipal Railway Snow Sweeper #200: The Edmonton Radial Railway Society and a piece of WDM History
November 21, 2024
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
This summer, I had the pleasure of spending the day with members of the Edmonton Radial Railway Society (ERRS). Our morning started in their restoration and operations barns at Fort…
Behind the Scenes – Managing Artifact Documentation at the WDM
October 2, 2024
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
Did you know that every WDM artifact has a file of documents held centrally in the WDM’s Corporate Office in Saskatoon? Artifact files hold documents such as donation agreements, photographs,…
Memory Mondays – Types of Transportation
August 5, 2024
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
For this month’s Memory Mondays, we’re looking at some photos showing different types of transportation from the WDM’s photographic collections. This undated photo shows the Carlton Ferry on the North…
Butter churners and paystubs or why you should clean out your desk!
July 17, 2024
Moose JawNorth BattlefordSaskatoonYorkton
As part of an ongoing fire code compliance project at the Curatorial & Corporate Services Centre, we have been working with and relocating thousands of artifacts. Most of these haven’t…
