The Nipawin Living Forestry Museum

Museum Opens May 1st - June 15th M-F 9-5 pm June 15 - August 31st 9am - 5 pm everyday For Group Tours please call ahead 306 862 9299 email nipawinmuseum@sasktel.net
The Red Earth Indian Reserve (IR) 29 and Carrot River Indian Reserve 29A are located approximately 77 kms east of the Town of Nipawin.
The first mention of the Cree was by Jesuit priests in 1640. The Cree had resided further east but moved west to trap after the Hudson's Bay Company began trading furs with the Indians. They acquired horses sometime after 1750, and were the first in this area to acquire guns. Nipawin is named for a height on the river just upstream from the present townsite (in Cree, "place where one stands"), which commands a wide view of plain and river and served as a popular lookout point for the native bands that frequented the area. A trading post was established in 1912, but development did not occur until the railway pushed its way north in 1924. The railway brought settlers who took up lumbering and farming. New signs of progress towards reconciliation will be apparent in Nipawin and Treaty Six territory in 2021. A request from Reconciliation Nipawin to council to implement signage at Town Square and the town’s three entrances was approved on Dec. 14. Reconciliation Nipawin has put a permanent reminder of the path towards truth and reconciliation. A medicine wheel has been placed at the Nipawin Hydroelectric Station which honours 7,500 years of history at the site, the treaty land in the northeast and the teaching of the medicine wheel.
HISTORY
The future plans of the museum include building an Indigenous building, solely dedicated to the many artifacts that are in different display areas at the museum. The board and members look forward to this construction with Provincial and Federal grants.
We acknowledge that the Nipawin Forestry Museum is on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the Treaty Six First Nations and the homeland of the Metis. In this place, we respect all people.
The Nipawin Living Forestry Museum  May 1-June 15  Mon-Fri 9-5 pm  June 15 - August 31st  9am - 5 pm daily  For Group Tours call 306 862 9299  nipawinmuseum@sasktel.net
The first mention of the Cree was by Jesuit priests in 1640. The Cree had resided further east but moved west to trap after the Hudson's Bay Company began trading furs with the Indians. They acquired horses sometime after 1750, and were the first in this area to acquire guns. Nipawin is named for a height on the river just upstream from the present townsite (in Cree, "place where one stands"), which commands a wide view of plain and river and served as a popular lookout point for the native bands that frequented the area. A trading post was established in 1912, but development did not occur until the railway pushed its way north in 1924. The railway brought settlers who took up lumbering and farming. A request from Reconciliation Nipawin to council to implement signage at Town Square and the town’s three entrances was approved on Dec. 14. A medicine wheel has been placed at the Nipawin Hydroelectric Station which honours 7,500 years of history at the site, the treaty land in the northeast and the teaching of the medicine wheel.
HISTORY
The future plans of the museum include building an Indigenous building, solely dedicated to the many artifacts that are in different display areas at the museum. The board and members look forward to this construction with Provincial and Federal grants.
We acknowledge that the Nipawin Forestry Museum is on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the Treaty Six First Nations and the homeland of the Metis. In this place, we respect all people.

The Nipawin

Living Forestry Museum

Collecting - Documenting - Preserving since 1967

The Nipawin Living Forestry Museum