Heritage Centre Summer Hours
Monday-Friday
8:30am-4:30pm
Saturday-Sunday 10:00am-4:00pm
Admission by Donation
Summer hours begin May 16th 2009
The Red Lake
Regional
Heritage Centre is open
year-round and houses a historical museum featuring displays on
Aboriginal history, gold mining, the fur trade, immigration and much
more. Here you will also find tourist information, a gift shop,
temporary and travelling exhibitions and information about Woodland
Caribou Park.
Historical Films and Memorable Slideshows
are now available to view anytime at the Heritage Centre
Check our list here!
New Exhibitions - Opening in JUNE 2009
Honouring Pitching Sensation Ron Buckler
During his fastball career, which spanned more than 30 years, Ron Buckler was known as Red Lake's pitching sensation, a windmill twirler with a blazing fastball, and a pitcher who dominated batters everywhere.
Going back to the 1950's, a time before television was popular, local sport, both hockey and fastball, was a dominant force in the area. Many talented players were even recruited from outside the area and given jobs at the mine in order to play ball.
This June, the Heritage Centre is thrilled to be opening the exhibition, Red Lake's Golden Age of Fastball.
A One Way Ticket
Red Lake's Immigration Story
Since the Red
Lake gold rush of 1926,
thousands of
immigrants and displaced persons from around the world have found their
way to
Red Lake to work in the gold mines. Some
were lured by adventure, but most were escaping economic hardships,
famines or
political and religious persecution in their homeland. Others
left home to escape unbearable family situations. Once here, they lived in
neighbourhoods commonly
known as Finntown, Little
Italy, DP town, Little Poland, Little Germany, Little Sweden,
etc. There were also entire streets where every home was occupied by a
family
of a different nationality. Click to read more
(left) 1930 Austrian
Passport belonging to Frieda Klaus, mother of Jean Adamson and Ethel
Dodd (nee Adamson)
Residential Schools:
The Red Lake Story
NOW ON LINE.... Click Here!
Red Lake Woodland Arts Festival 2008
Relive the most memorable moments of the Festival. Click here!
The Red Lake Heritage Centre is a charitable organization, funded by the Municipality of Red Lake,the Ontario Ministry of Culture, and through fundraising activities. Reg # 87315 2714 RR001.
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