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Yorkton WDM News:
The Story of People WDM Outdoors, the challenge of turning sod is demonstrated in the line up of agricultural equipment, which includes the gigantic 1916 Twin City gas tractor, one of only two in North America.
In a Prairie Attic: Bladon Family Toys Exhibit
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The Yorkton Western Development Museum has recreated the times
and styles of some of the many immigrants who settled in Western Canada, for it
was here that sons and daughters from more than fifty cultural backgrounds
around the world left their ancestral soil to take up residence in this new and
often frightening land. Depicted at the Yorkton Museum are scenes which
illustrate the cultural roots of many of these new peoples - Ukrainians, English, Swedes,
Germans, Doukhobors and Icelanders - to name only a few. You can almost imagine
yourself in the past as you view a Ukrainian home complete with white washed
walls and clay oven; or a bedroom displaying the ornate woodwork that was the
trademark of early 20th century craftsmen. Each scene is alive and tells its own
story. 
Four
mannequins, a First Nations woman, a Métis man, a
settler woman and a politician from 1905 greet you at the entrance to this
centennial exhibit.
The
WDM acquired more than 1700 artifacts from the Bladon family of Lang,
Saskatchewan in addition to several hundred farm machinery company
pamphlets, booklets, and advertising materials. The real treasure,
however, was toys.
