Author: Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

The Friends of Tomahawk Park sign, newly installed.
Board, Fundraiser, Museum

Last Call for Bricks This Year

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

DEADLINE TO RESERVE YOUR 2023 BRICK IS FRIDAY, SEPT. 22, 2023
EMAIL CMMMCUTKNIFE@GMAIL.COM

To make arrangements for bricks to be inscribed this year, we need to contact Rose City Memorials in advance, so they can schedule the onsite work. The work needs to be done before temperatures drop, or snow arrives.

Four – five more reserved bricks are needed. Individuals will be contacted this weekend if inscriptions are to go ahead this fall. Inscription and payment info will be required within days of notification.

Reservations will carry over to next year, if insufficient numbers are reached by Friday.

Click here for more about the Friends of Tomahawk Park Brick Fundraiser.

~ Debbie M.

loads of top soil on the former ovenstown site
Museum, Summer

Finishing Touches for 2023

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

UPDATE ON THE MUSUEM GROUNDS

The leaves in Tomahawk Park are falling fast and furious as we finish up this season’s To-Do List. We welcomed 300 visitors this year, about one third of whom, visited on Canada Day! In-between tours, cleaning the buildings, and the ongoing process of cataloguing artifacts, we completed a few new projects (photos below):

  • The original Ovenstown Gift Shop was hastily packed up and put away prior to the demolition of the building in 2020. This summer, we set up a mini-gift shop in the Duvall House with displays of local history books, crafts, and Tomahawk Park souvenirs.
  • The depression where the Ovenstown building had been located was filled with topsoil, harrowed, and grass seed was planted.
  • The Transportation Shed and the outdoor Machinery Display received new signage. The original artifact labels and descriptions had faded over time, and most had been lost to the weather.
  • Located on both sides of the Duvall House front steps, newly planted flower beds, with a small rock garden, welcome visitors.
  • The Elizabeth McLain Memorial Garden and the shrubbery bed at the beginning of the walking path each received a face lift with new mulch and a trim.
  • The Friends of Tomahawk Park brick fundraising project finally has its permanent sign. It’s been a long time coming, as the wood sign made in 2012, prior to the Town of Cut Knife Centennial, had been intended only as a temporary measure. For more info on how to purchase your brick in support of the CMMM, click here.

Our sincere thanks go out to Rose City Memorials for their donation of the granite plaque for the sign, and lettering it for us!

Click a photo to view as a slideshow.

Elizabeth McLain Memorial Garden, mulched and trimmed.
Fall colours along the walking path, newly mulched and trimmed.
Outdoor Machinery Display, showing off its new signage.
The Friends of Tomahawk Park sign, newly installed.

~ Debbie M.

Tomahawk Park bricks
Board, Fundraiser, Museum

Tomahawk Park Bricks 2023

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

6 RESERVATIONS | 6 MORE NEEDED

The cost to purchase a 1 – 2 line inscription on a Tomahawk Park brick is $100, with a portion of that going towards the cost of inscribing the brick on site by Rose City Memorials. To maximize the donation portion of the purchase, we wait until we have at least 12 bricks reserved. Currently, 6 bricks are waiting for the next round of inscriptions, which will hopefully be this year before the first snowfall.

Once we have 12 bricks on the list, the museum will contact individuals for payment, and for the text of their inscriptions.

Inscriptions: Each brick holds 2 lines of text. Character count per line is 17.
Payment: Must be received before the bricks are sand blasted. Cash, cheque, or e-transfer accepted.

To purchase an inscription, please email cmmmcutknife@gmail.com to be added to this year’s list. The purchaser will receive a tax donation receipt for $50. (For more about the Brick Fundraiser, click here and scroll through previous posts.)

Tomahawk Park bricks 2023

~ Debbie M.

broken windows in station door
Museum, Summer

And, it was “Shared Widely”

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

Many thanks to Sherri Solomko for her write-up in Sask Today about the vandalism at the CMMM this past week. Unfortunately, Facebook is preventing us from sharing it on our feed. We encourage you to support local news outlets by visiting their pages directly.

Break-in and vandalism at Cut Knife Museum

Many thanks to all on Facebook who shared our post, and to all who commented with words and emojis . The original Facebook post, asking for any information the public may have about the break-in, is here. We asked for the post to be “shared widely”, and the Museum’s followers obliged. It went viral. Take a look at the stats below.