The Marine Museum of Manitoba, at
Selkirk, Manitoba
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, was established in 1972 to gather ships, artifacts, and items relating to shipping, to tell the story of the development and the operation of transportation on
Lake Winnipeg
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and the
Red River. The period covered by the Museum's displays starts circa 1850 and continues to present day.
The Marine Museum is a non-profit organization operated by a board of local citizens operating under the name of ''The Marine Museum of Manitoba (Selkirk) Inc.'' With support from the City of Selkirk and nearby businesses, as well as from both the provincial and federal government, the museum’s purpose is to collect, preserve, research, exhibit and interpret its collection of historical artifacts.
Among its collection of ships, the Motor Ship ''
Keenora'' was the first acquired by the museum. Abandoned in the Selkirk Slough in 1966, the MS ''Keenora'' was purchased from
Marine Transport Navigation Company in 1972, by a group of twenty Selkirk businessmen. In the summer of 1973 the ''Keenora'' was removed from the waters of the Red River on the Selkirk dry dock (
marine railway
The patent slip or marine railway is an inclined plane extending from shoreline into water, featuring a "cradle" onto which a ship is first floated, and a mechanism to haul the ship, attached to the cradle, out of the water onto a slip. The ...
), then dragged on its keel, across the grass of
Selkirk Park, to its present location, near the park entrance. The ''Keenora'' opened to the public on weekends beginning October 20, 1973.
Stationary vessel exhibits
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SS ''Keenora'' (built in 1897) is the oldest preserved steamboat in
Manitoba
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CGS ''Bradbury'' (built in 1915) was an ice breaker owned by the federal government.
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M/S ''Chickama II'' (built in 1942), connection vessel operating between
Warren Landing and
Norway House
Norway House is a population centre of over 5,000 people, some north of Lake Winnipeg, on the bank of the eastern channel of Nelson River, in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The population centre shares the name ''Norway House'' with the north ...
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M/S ''Lady Canadian'' (built in 1944), a vessel for fishing and hydrographic mapping.
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M/S ''Peguis II'' (built in 1955), a barge tug.
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M/S ''Joe Simpson'' (built in 1963), replacement vessel of M/S ''Chickama II''.
Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with:
Canadian Museums Association,
Canadian Heritage Information Network, and
Virtual Museum of Canada
The Digital Museums Canada (DMC; , ''MNC'') is a funding program in Canada "dedicated to online projects by the museum and heritage community," helping organizations to build digital capacity.
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References
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History museums in Manitoba
Maritime museums in Manitoba
Selkirk, Manitoba
1972 establishments in Manitoba
Museums established in 1972