This photo journal, part 1 of a 2 part series, features many photos from my rewarding visit to the Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum located 8 miles south of Moose Jaw just off Highway 2. The site has many displays of life on the prairies including many historic buildings that have been moved from surrounding communities & farms & set up to mimic that of a small farming town from the early 1900s to 1930s. Part 2 of this set is here:
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/373496/index.htmlThe village is being restored
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Sukanen Ship "Dontianen"
was built during the Great Depression by Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish...
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View from the road
The ship was rebuilt & moved here in 1975.
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Chapel & grave on the left
Tom Sukanen died disheartened & penniless in the Battelford Mental...
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Tom's grave
Tom's remains were moved from an unmarked grave to the small...
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Inside the small chapel (ch)
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Red & White Store (rw)
recreated in the pioneer village. Almost every town had a Red & White...
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rw - They were like a department store
that sold sundries in addition to groceries.
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rw - Wonderful old cash register
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rw - We could buy candy from jars
back then.
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rw - Wrapping paper & string.
No plastic bags back then.
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rw - Most tobacco came in cans.
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rw - the meat counter
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rw - Salves, syrups & ointments
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rw - Kitchen supplies
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rw - Lots of enamelware back then.
Note the old thermoses & lunch pails.
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Hardware Store (hw)
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hw - Scythes & saws
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hw - Even snowshoes.
Note kerosene lamp & old cash register.
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