Northern Life Museum
The Northern Life Museum in Fort Smith , Canada is a museum with a collection focus on the ethnic groups and history of the Northwest. The more than 10,000 artifacts can be largely traced back to the Oblate missionary orders that work here.
Their objects were first exhibited in 1964 at Grandin College (now PWK High School). In 1972 the Northern Anthropological and Cultural Society was founded with the aim of building a museum. It was opened on June 8, 1974 by the then Minister for Indian Affairs Jean Chrétien , who later became Prime Minister .
The thematic priorities are the people of the North (People of the North), and here the history of the First Nations and the Métis of northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories is represented, to traffic coming (especially the role of the canoe), missionaries (The Oblates built their first church here in 1876), natural history ( Wood Buffalo National Park was created in 1922, and is the second largest park in the world, with the rare whooping cranes and the American bison play a major role) and technology.
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Coordinates: 60 ° 0 ′ 19 ″ N , 111 ° 53 ′ 15.2 ″ W.