Watercraft Gallery

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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

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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.

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Watercraft Gallery

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