Borden & District Museum
200 Main St S0K 0N0 Borden, SK, Canada

Happening TOMORROW: CMA’s FREE virtual event, Foundation and Future. We’ll discuss best practices in governance & important trends in the museum sector as we look toward the future. Don't forget to register and please share this event with your networks. https://bit.ly/3obxwCQ

A great read about student learning the history of the Depression with a global pandemic on their minds - from the Network in Canadian History & Environment - N...ICHE ! From the article by Brian Payne: "Students struggle today more than at any point I have known; so, what do I offer them? A theory and methods class on the history of the Dust Bowl! For me, the Dust Bowl had always been a chapter in environmental history, and, as in past semesters, this September I emphasized what I thought would be the most relevant element of the class: the link between this environmental crisis and our own struggle with climatic disasters. To my surprise, and delight, my students found an altogether different relevancy to the class."

#MysteriousMondays - Check out this map of ghost towns across Canada. Want to take a trip? http://ow.ly/pkkG50BI0QZ

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson was Canada's fourth prime minister, holding office from December 5, 1892, until December 12, 1894. He travelled to England in 1...894 to be sworn in as a member of the Queen's Imperial Privy Council and died at the luncheon following the ceremony. Lavish memorial services were held in both England and Canada with thousands of mourners paying tribute. The unexpected nature of Thompson’s death, combined with the extended, high-profile pomp and splendour of the funerary proceedingson both sides of the Atlanticmade it THE Canadian news story of its time. Artist Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith believed that John Thompson’s death was worthy of public art on a grand scale. He produced three large paintings memorializing the event. http://ow.ly/aNwN30ra0Ip