Fort De Buade Museum

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Comments: Fort de Buade is huge! There are over 5,000 artifacts of such a variety that everyone visiting finds something of interest. They play a movie on a big screen tv called "Black Robe" and give you free popcorn! The whole museum is now free because the city bought it from a dentist who had collected all of this stuff over a period of 50 years! Its amazing, it is very old and wasn't well taken care of but the Historical Society that is now operating it is progressively changing that. The museum is some 7,000 square feet of displays and begins at pre-contact with arrowheads and bone tool and takes you through the french era, the british era, the american era and up to about the mid 1900s. There are uniforms, native clothing, guns, tomahawks, stuff from the jesuits and the hudson bay company, and just oddities from early fur trade and colonial real life, like copper pots, tools, there is a logging display, a whole room of beadwork and native fishing tools, baskets, snowshoes, etc. I loved it!

Reviewed By: meadwolf, 04/15/2008 01:51:50 PM