Musee Saint Joseph

Museum Description
Exploring the 20 buildings that make up the museum offers a unique opportunity to see and experience, first-hand, how early pioneer farmers lived and worked in the region more than 100 years ago.

Historical Village

• The Perron House, dating between 1865 and 1870, is built with wooden beams squared with a side axe and adze and features furniture from the 19th century.
• The Moquin House, dating back to 1905, was built by a pioneer of the Saint-Joseph community with furniture dating between 1915 and 1930.
• The Montcalm Exhibit features a large collection of domestic and agricultural artifacts.
• The Plankey Plains Ukrainian Catholic Church, built in 1938, is reminiscent of its era with no electricity and is heated by a wood stove.
• The Union Point School, built around 1890, contains educational artefacts dating between 1940 and 1950.
• The General Store, a reproduction of the early era stores, contains many artefacts. The store also features a hardware department, butcher shop and post office.
• The Perron Pavilion has twenty rooms depicting various themes - a kitchen, a dining room, a bedroom, sport, health, religious practices, laundry and a sewing room. One room is reserved for artefacts of the Eaton’s store.
• The milking shed, built in 1901, has artefacts related to the history of the dairy industry on small farms.
• Two warehouses contain many pieces of machinery related to the transportation industry of by-gone years.
• The barn comes to life every year for the Montcalm Heritage Festival with animals from a hobby farm.

Agricultural Village

• The Delorme Woodworking Shop is a reproduction of a carpentry shop from the early twentieth century.
• The Sarrasin Leather Workshop displays tools necessary for the production and repairing of leather articles such as horse harnesses.
• Blacksmith Shop
• The stationary engine shed has one of the largest collections of its kind in western Canada. It includes a large stationary engines that was used to drain water from the basement of the James Avenue Pumping Station in Winnipeg in 1924.
• Safely sheltered in the tractor shed are many tractors and other agricultural machines (tractors, seeders, threshing machines) dating from the 1920s to 1940s – brands include Titan, McCormick, Case, International, Massey and, of course, John Deer.
• The Sugar Beet Producers Display Building is dedicated to the history of the sugar beet industry, which was significant in the region from 1940 to 1996.