Yorkton's Western Development Museum held its 55th annual Threshermen's Show and Seniors' Festival at the museum grounds on July 31st, and August 1st.
The yearly event is a celebration of Saskatchewan's heritage through the operation of vintage equipment, and the reenactment of methods and techniques from the past.
Susan Mandziuk, chairperson of the Show & Festival Steering Committee, comments that the event "works to preserve and display western Canadian heritage," just as the Western Development Museum strives to do. Mandziuk added that there are also children's activities to introduce and familiarize them with the heritage.
Continuous demonstrations ran both days for blacksmithing, clay oven bread baking, grain grinding, quilting, and a rolled oats mill. Also open was the hobby and handicraft sale, antique car show, and Seeding Through the Years and Sesame Street exhibits. Running at different times throughout the weekend where steam and gas threshing demonstrations, ice cream making demonstrations, a stooking demonstration and competition, a sawmill, turtle tractor races, children's games and much more.
