Category: Summer
Opening July 1, 4-5:30pm
Time: Is An Illusion | All We Have: Is Now
Dana Standinghorn is a Cree artist from Sweetgrass First Nation, Saskatchewan. She has been creating artwork for the past 30 years. Her work can be understood as abstract because it expresses her interpretation of the world around her.
While I paint, I let everything unravel onto the canvas without question. I let the color of paint and paintbrushes take me where it wants to. Every painting is a feeling, thought, idea, memory or a vision… The paintings are abstract so everyone is going to see something different, and that is what I love the most about my art.
– from Dana Standinghorn, Artist Statement
Standinghorn’s exhibit will be on display through July and August 2024. Select items are for sale. Inquire with the Artist.
113 Broad Street, Cut Knife, SK
Wednesdays 1:30 – 6:30pm & Fridays 11:00am – 4pm
or by appointment. Sundays in July Noon – 1:30pm. Free admission
Sponsored by Sweetgrass First Nation
~ Debbie M.
July 1, 2024
Canada Day at the Museum
The Town of Cut Knife is celebrating Canada Day 2024 with a full slate of activities taking place around town and in Tomahawk Park. The day begins with the Parade and will finish off with Fireworks.
PARADE at 11am. Click here to view the route map.
OPEN HOUSE at the Museum. Buildings open from 12:30 – 2pm.
SPARE ROOM GALLERY open 4 – 5:30pm. Located at 113 Broad Street.
View the Canada Day Events poster here.
~ Debbie M.
All Plots Taken This Year
2024 COMMUNITY GARDEN SPOTS AVAILABLE
Plots are approximately 10 ft. x 20 ft, running east / west. They have been tilled and are ready to go, weather permitting. Two still available.
Contact a CMMM Board member or email cmmmcutknife@gmail.com to arrange for garden space.
BONUS: We expect to have water onsite this year via a water wagon, kindly donated by Glen Brebner. We are confident it is functional.
Guidelines are as follows:
- Plant rows east / west.
- Plots are free but you must care for your plot throughout the season. This includes weeding and harvesting.
- If your plot is not maintained, you will be refused a plot the following year.
Produce is not to be harvested by anyone other than the grower. It belongs to the person who planted it.
~ Debbie M.
CAF Personnel Tour the Museum
On Thursday, October 26, two members of the Canadian Armed Forces Governor General’s Foot Guards (Ottawa) and two members of the North Saskatchewan Regiment (Saskatoon) toured the Museum. They had travelled to the area to meet with Eric Tootoosis and other representatives of Poundmaker Cree Nation regarding potential Reconciliation activities in 2024. Eric then referred them to the Museum and Randy S. was available to tour them through the exhibits.
GOVERNOR GENERAL’S FOOT GUARDS
The Governor General’s Foot Guards (GGFG) was established in 1872 in Ottawa and is still headquartered there. Currently, the GGFG provide operational support to regular CAF deployments around the world including United Nations and NATO activities. It also has emergency response capabilities that assist Canadians during natural disasters or emergencies like the 1998 Ice Storm, floods, and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The GGFG’s first deployment was the Nile Expedition of 1884. Its second was in 1885:
Members of the Regiment… provided a company of sharpshooters to the Battleford column during the North West Rebellion, where the Regiment suffered its first two casualties at the battle of Cut Knife Hill.
Governor General’s Foot Guards: Our History
Lieutenant Colonel Jaime Bell (Commanding Officer) and Chief Warrant Officer Greg Witol (Regimental Sargeant Major) of the Governor General’s Foot Guards, and Chief Warrant Officer Jason Balcaen (Regimental Sargeant Major) and Master Warrant Officer Robert Brown (Indigenous Advisor to the Commander of the Canadian Army) of the North Saskatchewan Regiment enjoyed their tour. Of special note in the Exhibits building was the display of stone tools, the information on the 1885 Northwest Resistance, and from a military perspective, finding that the artillery used at the time had rifling on the projectile rather than the barrel of the gun. The group also spent some time going over the railway history of the North-West Territories, and the story of Bert Martin’s Cabin produced a chuckle.
~ Debbie M.
Clayton McLain Memorial Museum 