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What I Learned at the Kronau Museum is...
Arti-Fact Check!
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100
The name of the street in which the museum is located. Hint: it's named after the town!
What is Kronau Street?
100
Regina, the capital city of Saskatchewan, has a "royal" title, and the city is also known by this nickname.
What is the Queen City?
100
Justin Trudeau, Steven Harper, John A. MacDonald, and Wilfred Laurier all have held this title position as the leader of Canada.
What is the Prime Minister?
100
The museum features a rotating exhibition that changes every two years. Our previous exhibit was "Simple Fun," featuring antique games and different ways people have entertained themselves throughout the ages. This summer we have a brand new exhibit, called this. Make sure you come check it out soon!
What is the "Back to Basics" exhibit?
100
The melancholy artifact shown here goes by this name.
What is a Sad Iron?
200
Kronau is home to some delicious treats! In the building that also has the rink, you can buy Ice Cream treats and some delicious food, in the Cafe known by this name.
What is the Come Around Cafe?
200
Canola is a common crop in Saskatchewan, harvested and used to make canola oil for cooking and baking. Canola in bloom is a beautiful flower, filling our fields with flowers of this bright colour.
What is yellow?
200
Canada is known for producing this pancake-pleasing treat, which is tapped from trees that can live over 200 years. A traditional winter treat, Canadians will pour the syrup from these trees onto snow and roll it around a popsicle stick!
What is Maple?
200
*K* Invenergy is a sustainable energy company that is a sponsor for our new exhibition. In Saskatchewan, we use different forms of sustainable energy, including wind turbines, and these panels, pictured below.
What are solar panels?
200
The hats shown in the photo below were a hot fashion statement back in the 19th century. These hats were made by using the pelts of this animal, heavily traded in Canada's fur trade.
What is a beaver?
300
Kronau has a big fire hall and the local fire department tends to emergencies in our RM. Many community members volunteer their time in order to keep people safe. Although they no longer serve the same purpose, this firefighting dog used to clear the way for the fire carriage back when it was pulled by horses.
Thank you to our hard-working and incredible volunteer firefighting team!
What is a Dalmation?
300
This bright orange bud has been Saskatchewan's official flower since 1941 and is featured on our province's flag. It grows in semi-wooded and marshy areas -- against the green grass it really stands out!
What is the Prairie Lily / Western Red Lily?
300
Canada has three territories including the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and this northern territory.
What is Nunavut?
300
*K* In the school building of the museum, there is an exhibit that features old school desks from different periods of time. The students who sat at these desks would have practiced their spelling on this artifact. And no, it is not just a mini chalkboard!
What is a writing slate?
300
This artifact is still used today, but the photo you see is of a much older version. Hint: you probably see this object the most during Thanksgiving.
What is a potato masher?
400
Now closed, Kronau used to have its own Elementary schools. On a sign by the playground in town, you can read the names of these two schools. The oldest school building is still in town and is part of the museum, used for our summer camps and Simple Fun Festival!
*BOTH NAMES*
What are Saar and Scott School?
400
This man, a former premier of Saskatchewan, lead the NDP party and is known for founding universal healthcare in Canada.
Who is Tommy Douglas?
400
In the 18th century, there was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which would have included modern-day New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and part of Quebec. The inhabitants of this area spoke French, in the colony with this name.
What is Acadia?
400
One element of the museum is our History Minutes Videos, featured on our YouTube channel. One video documents the history of our local shrine that attracts tourists from all across the world, located just a few miles away from Kronau, which goes by this name. Hint: name the shrine OR the church.
What is Our Lady of Lordes Shrine / St. Peter's Church?
400
These artifacts, known by this name, can be found across the prairies, left there by the Indigenous population who used them to hunt buffalo, deer, and other animals native to Canada.
What are arrowheads?
500
The name "Kronau" comes from a city in this Northern country, where many of our town's first immigrants came from originally in the 18th Century.
What is Russia?
500
Also known as Sylvite, this pink rock is Saskatchewan's official mineral. 10 out of 11 of the mines in Canada are located in our province!
What is Potash?
500
This former English monarch chose the name of the Canadian province, British Columbia. Below is a photo painted of her at age four.
Who is Queen Victoria?
500
The main building of the museum, which currently holds our permanent and rotating exhibits, formerly used to be a church with this name.
What is Bethlehem Lutheran Church?
500
For nearly a century after Confederation, Canada had no official flag of its own. The photo below is a proposed flag of Canada from 1946, but it was not until this year that Canada's official flag was raised for the first time on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
What is 1965?