Indigenous History Month: History in Photos
by Shelby Smith and Lori Nelson
To celebrate Indigenous History Month we are sharing some of our favourite photographs from the Lake of the Woods Museum’s extensive collection on social media. We have compiled all of the photos and captions here, and hope that you will enjoy if you missed out on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter!
Click the right and left arrows below to navigate through the images.
The Lake of the Woods Museum is always looking to add more historical photographs to our collection. If you have historic photographs from Kenora and the surrounding areas that you think we might be interested in, please contact us.
Did you know?
Kenora was once claimed by Ontario and by Manitoba. Both provinces claimed the area between 1878 and 1884. The case was resolved in 1884 by Queen Victoria’s Privy Council, the highest court in the world at the time.