Western Development Museum News

This post is our second feature on Chinese history in Saskatchewan. This post is highlighting Tom Yee (Kock Hin Tam) and his iconic Saskatoon restaurant, Lorne Avenue Chop Suey. Tom…

Parking meters have been in use for almost a century; the first parking meters in the world were installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1935. Canada’s first parking meters were…

This summer we’ll be sharing a series of blog posts on Chinese history in Saskatchewan with a focus on four individuals or families and their artifacts in the WDM. The…

Welcome to the new Memory Mondays! Instead of posting one photo every week we’ll share all the photos once a month on our blog and share it on Facebook. This…

Today, to coincide with National Indigenous People’s Day and Indigenous History Month, we present a brief history of the Whitecap Dakota Nation’s relationships and contributions to the City of Saskatoon….

Have you ever explored our online database of artifacts? What kinds of artifacts would you search for? For fun, we recently searched the spoon collection at the WDM in our…

The Western Development Museum in partnership with Spirit Wrestlers Productions and the University of Saskatchewan is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence…

Calculators are handy tools that today most people carry around in their pockets in the form of smartphones. However, there is a long history of tools to help people add…

This Fall the WDM North Battleford undertook a big move! For many years, a little brick building has sat at the west end of the Heritage Village. The building is…

Artificial limbs have been used for much of human history. The earliest known example of a prosthesis is a toe found on a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. There are written records,…