Northern Life Museum

The Northern Life Museum in Fort Smith is a Canadian museum with the collection's focus on the ethnic groups and the history of the Northwest. The more than 10,000 artifacts go to considerable parts back to the operating here missionary order of the Oblates.

Their objects were first issued in Grandin College (now PWK High School ) in 1964. In 1972, the Northern Anthropological and Cultural Society was founded, the construction of a museum set itself the goal. It was opened on June 8, 1974 from his time Minister of Indian Affairs Jean Chretien, who later became Prime Minister.

The thematic focus is the people of the North ( People of the North ), in which case the history of the First Nations and the Métis of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories is represented, plus transport (in particular the role of the canoe ), missionaries ( the Oblates built here their first church in 1876 ), natural History ( Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922 and is the second largest park in the world, will play the rare Whooping Cranes and the American Bison a major role ) as well as technology.