Western Development Museum
Highway 16 A West S3N2V6 Yorkton, SK, Canada

As the days grow shorter, holiday lights and decorations begin to appear to bring brightness and joy to a dark time. In honour of Christmas and the holiday season, the Western Development Museum invites you to enter our Deck the Halls Photo Contest to win a prize that can be enjoyed year-round a WDM Family Membership! Participants are encouraged to share photos of their holiday decorations, Christmas trees and light displays. For more details on how to enter, visit our website: https://wdm.ca/deck-the-halls-photo-contest/

Enter our Deck the Halls Photo Contest and show us your holiday spirit! Send us photos of your holiday decorations, Christmas trees, and light displays to be entered to win a one-year Family Membership to the WDM! Download and complete the Deck the Halls Photo Contest Entry/Photo Release Form from our website. Email the entry form/photo release and digital photo submission(s) (limit 3) to [email protected]. Contest closes January 7, 2021.

Help a child in need in Saskatoon this holiday season by donating a new, unwrapped toy to the Shaw Toy Tree.

In December, #MemoryMondays highlight winter pastimes featured in the Barton Collection. The Barton Collection contains over 800 images taken by two generations of a farm family from the Floral-Grasswood area, south-east of Saskatoon, in the first 60 years of the 20th century. This photo shows children from the Barton family snowshoeing. Date: before 1960.

On this day of #CanadianInnovationWeek we are featuring the Cobalt Bomb which revolutionized the treatment of cancer. The exhibit honours the inspiring story of the first successful treatment of cancer with this machine at University Hospital in Saskatoon in 1951. This is very much a Saskatchewan and a Saskatoon story, thanks in part to the work of Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk.

Applications are being accepted until December 14 for the position of Maintenance Technician at the WDM Corporate Office/WDM Saskatoon. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the WDM’s Corporate Office and WDM Saskatoon facilities and equipment are maintained to a high standard. Learn more online.

November 13 to 19 is Transgender Awareness Week. Transgender Awareness Week is an opportunity to celebrate transgender, two-spirit, non-binary and gender-diverse communities and advocate for the visibility and rights of trans* people around the world. Transgender Awareness Week occurs just before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20. Transgender Day of Remembrance honors the memory of victims whose lives were lost because of anti-transgender violence.

Don't miss #AskAConservator Day tomorrow!

There is still time to donate to the Shaw TV Saskatoon Toy Tree. Toys for children in Grades 1 through 8 are being collected through December 13 at the Western Development Museum - Saskatoon. With the help of elves from Care & Share Saskatoon, new unwrapped toys will be delivered to children in need this holiday season.

November 16 - 20 is #CanadianInnovationWeek, a week to recognize Canadian ingenuity, creativity, and persistence in helping build a better Canada. Today we feature the Blairmore Ring, which made potash mining in Saskatchewan possible. Click on the link to learn more about the Blairmore Ring on exhibit at the Western Development Museum - Saskatoon. https://wdm.ca/2019/01/31/blairmore-ring/

Cory is back in the kitchen! Thanks to your votes he made Mac and Cheese from A Guide To Good Cooking Compiled By The Makers of Five Roses Flour published in 1938. We hope you enjoy the video!

We have been able to do many wonderful things at the WDM with the gifts received from the Gladys Hall Fund, and thank her for her spirit and generosity for organizations in the city of Saskatoon.