World Class Art Gallery Located in Small Farm Centre District Museums Tell Interesting Stories About Communities

District Museums Tell Interesting Stories About Communities By preserving local history, people The cafe sells home-made pie and 345-2811 in the Moose Jaw district have built ice cream on the annual Heritage The Mortlach Museum is located in interesting museums to tell the stoDay. the old fire hall that once served as ry of their communities. the town jail and court house. The Located in a former CNR station, cell is one of few town jails still exthe Avonlea Heritage Museum is isting in Saskatchewan. Have your packed with pioneer lifestyle items. photo taken in jail. A second building focuses on disThe museum displays art from plays of old-time businesses, farm well-known artist Casey Jones who equipment and local archeology. A painted various chiefs, as well as diorama pictures the buffalo. arrowheads and a mural. The museum conducts tours of the Among the upstairs artifacts, visinearby Avonlea badlands on weektors can see the bar separating the ends. For information on museum For more information on hours call judge and others in the court room. hours or the tours call (306) 868- (306) 799-4951 or hoterrafarms@ For information call (306) 355- 2101. sasktel.net. 2319. On the way to Avonlea, you will The Mossbank and District Mu The FT Hill Museum at Riverhurst drive by Briercrest. Pop in and see seum Ambroz blacksmith shop is takes up half the old school with the Briercrest and District Musethe only heritage blacksmith shop displays of local fossils and rocks, um, located in the old school. on its original site. The shop is next pioneer items like the bed with a The museum chose heritage themes to the Ambroz cottage, which is full rope mattress, tools, and copies of for rooms in the school with a of household items that Ambroz FT Hill’s weekly newspaper. general store, school, ice cream hand built, and other artifacts. A highlight is the extensive gun parlour, doctor’s office, farm imAdjacent buildings display pioneer collection also featuring firearms plements, military and household life, the wartime RCAF training made by a local pioneer gunsmith. rooms. The tiny home of poet Edna school and farm equipment. For information call (306) 353- Jacques is next to the museum. For more information call (306) 2112.

Visiting Grasslands National Park East Block Like Time Travel The awing sweep of wilderness the first pioneers must have felt comes to mind when driving into the east block of Grasslands National Park. Developed from ranch lands in the 1980s, this wilderness park offers visitors less of the usual home comforts but with the challenge of outdoor hiking. The park has several short hikes around the ranch house turned into park office, plus longer hikes such as the one to Zahursky’s Point from which you can see far into the Killen TENTik structures overlooking The route allows visitors to stop deer Badlands. Rock Creek. Chief Sitting Bull and and see the spectacular sights with The first dinosaur fossil found in his 5,000 tribes people used the out hiking for miles. Western Canada was dug up in the creek as a guide point when they The east bloc is about two hours Killdeer Badlands. Fossil digs still fled the United States Cavalry for a drive south of Moose Jaw on Highhappen every year with the fossil five-year stay in these parts. way Two, west on Highway13 to dig becoming the theme of an anRecent developments include the Limerick and south on Highway nual mid-August festival in the east construction of a 10.7 kilometre 18. block. paved road meandering along the For information about hours call Visitors can stay at the campsite, Rock Creek Valley and the Killdeer ahead to (306) 476-2018. one of the two teepees or the woodBadlands. 66