Western Development Museum News

For this month’s Memory Mondays, we’re sharing photos of temporary shelters used by early settlers in Saskatchewan. When many settlers first arrived on their homesteads, one of their first tasks…

Summer is just starting to get into swing in Saskatchewan, but for June’s Memory Mondays we’re going to share some wintery photos, all recently digitized as part of the WDM’s…

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. In observance of this month, May’s Memory Mondays highlight artifacts and archival photos from the WDM’s Kimi and Tokujiro “Tom” Wakabayashi Collection. Asian…

This month’s #MemoryMondays features images of winter activities! In the days before central heating and easily accessible grocery stores, Saskatchewan’s cold climate and long winters required a lot of preparation…

On October 4, 2023, a few WDM staff members spent a morning at the University of Saskatchewan’s Digital Research Centre to make high-resolution scans of 19 large posters from our…

We need your help! This artifact was sewn and worn by Yvonne Yuen in the 1990s. Yvonne immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1975, opening a successful tailoring and…

For this December’s #MemoryMondays, we’re doing things a bit differently! The WDM’s Barton Collection of photos is a collection of around 1,000 photographs covering a period from the earliest part…

60 years ago, on May 25, 1963, the WDM North Battleford opened in its present location on 60 acres of land at the junction of highways 5 and 40 (now…

For September’s #MemoryMondays, we’re sharing photos from the WDM’s Beaumont photo collection. Warrant Officer Frank Beaumont was stationed in Moose Jaw as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan…

The Western Development Museum and Whitecap Dakota Nation are pleased to announce the co-curated exhibit Wapaha Sk̄a Oyate: Living Our Culture, Sharing Our Community at Pion-Era, 1955-69 has won an…