Menu
Watercraft gallery wide view, showing several boats, including "the gull"

Watercraft Gallery

Indoor

Moose Jaw

Watercraft Gallery

Check out a steamboat fashioned after the ill-fated S. S. City of Medicine Hat, which sank after hitting a bridge in Saskatoon in 1908. Other watercrafts featured include the Okeehumkee, a boat built in Regina, SK in 1912, and the Gull, purchased in 1935 by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. This gallery also houses a canoe built in 1933, a reconstructed ferry, a rowboat, and a motorboat.

Highlights

  • 1920s style rowboat replica made by students at the local Peacock Technical School
  • Okeehumkee boat made in Regina, SK in 1912
  • Replica S. S. City of Medicine Hat steamboat
Watercraft gallery wide view, showing several boats, including "the gull"

Explore More Exhibits

Snowbirds Gallery

Moose Jaw

Snowbirds Gallery This exclusive gallery is the only one in the world to feature Canada’s premier aerobatic team, the 431 Squadron Snowbirds. The Snowbirds demonstrate at air shows across North…

Indoor
Two people pose inside the blue McLaughlin car

Boomtown Street

Saskatoon

Boomtown Street Saskatchewan boomed with economic activity from the turn of the century to 1914. Land seekers flooded the west and towns grew almost overnight. 1910 Boomtown, an indoor representation…

Indoor

Sign up for our e-newsletter!

Keep up to date on what’s happening at the WDM.

Click to subscribe
Western Development Museum - Logo
Visit Moose Jaw
Visit North Battleford
Visit Saskatoon
Visit Yorkton

The Western Development Museum (WDM) is the largest human history museum in Saskatchewan. With a collection of over 75,000 artifacts ranging from pins to locomotives and four locations in the province, the WDM shares the Saskatchewan story from the Treaties to the present day.

The WDM’s facilities are situated in Treaty 4 and Treaty 6 territories and the Homeland of the Métis. The provincial boundaries for Saskatchewan also include Treaty 2, Treaty 5, Treaty 8 and Treaty 10 territories. Please visit WDM Reconciliation for more information.

2025 © Western Development Museum

Charitable Registration# 119293215 RR0001