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Discover Waskada Museum

The Waskada Museum consists of six separate buildings: Union (Royal) Bank (1906), Anglican Church (1914), Vehicle Display Building (1999), Blacksmith Shop (1927), new Display Building (2006), and the Menota country school (1896-1952).

The bank and church buildings contain pioneer household and farm artifacts, a clothing display, two Simplex “silent movie” projectors, military clothing and picture display, photograph collection, mounted whooping crane (1903), a hand-powered table saw, a ledger (1864) from a Great Lakes schooner “Thornton”, cameras, and various radios and phonographs. The vehicle display building contains vintage cars, trucks, and tractors; a 1913 Case steam engine; three former fire-fighting vehicles (horse-drawn wagon, two trucks); farm implements; WWII “Weasel” snow track machine.

The restored Amos Blacksmith Shop, operated from 1899 to 1960, contains blacksmithing tools as well as horse-drawn vehicles and other related artifacts. The new display building, a renovated Paterson elevator coal shed contains various displays: general store; sports history; medical articles; hand-loom, knitting and sewing machines; grain cleaning and testing items. The Menota School building opened in 2012 contains all our school-related items.

Explore and discover these items!

  • 1872 Manitoba Free Press 1st edition
  • “S” pattern quilt, circa 1811
  • 1902, 1910 Brenda-Municipality voters list
  • Electric stove, c.1920s; Hoosier cabinet
  •  1912 Manitoba license plate, porcelain-covered
  • Hand-made violin, brought from Ontario in 1884
  • Horse-drawn firewagon (restored) c.1900; 2 firetrucks
  • Ox cart, Ox collars
  • 1861 Enfield rifle from WWI
  • Article and photo of a former Menota School teacher who is still living today, 110 years old
  • 1934 hole-in-one certificate (Waskada Golf Club)
  • John Deere bicycle
  • Brass 60 yr commemorative plaque (Canada 1867-1927)
  • 1903 sidesaddle
  • 1885 Bible, containing 39 books of the Old Testament, 27 books of the New Testament and 14 books of the Apocrypha
  • Canadian army uniform WWII, (complete)
 
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