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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ashern Pioneer Museum (Ashern, Municipality of West Interlake)

This museum, at Ashern in the Municipality of West Interlake, features six restored heritage buildings: the Ashern fourth-class Canadian National Railway station (built 1920) which is now the museum office, St. Michael’s Anglican Church (1912), Hoffman log house (1929), Ashern post office building (1931), Siglunes municipal office (1931), and Darwin School No. 1576 (1912). The musem is open for tours between June and September, or at other times by appointment.

Buildings of the Ashern Museum

Buildings of the Ashern Museum (August 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

The former Darwin School building at the Ashern Museum

The former Darwin School building at the Ashern Museum (August 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

The former Ashern CNR station at the Ashern Museum

The former Ashern CNR station at the Ashern Museum (September 2011)
Source: George Penner

The former St. Michael's Anglican Church at the Ashern Museum

The former St. Michael's Anglican Church at the Ashern Museum (April 2019)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.17920, W98.34822
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Darwin School No. 1576 (Municipality of West Interlake)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Railway Stations

Sources:

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

Ashern Pioneer Museum

We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 August 2020

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