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The Bonnyville and District Museum is a wonderful display of Bonnyville's history over the past 200 years.
At the opening of the museum's grounds stands a hand-carved seven meter tall statue of fur trader Angus Shaw, the first European to come to the area in the mid 1700s. Carved by artist Herman Poulin of Hub Designs in St. Edouard, Alberta, the statue stands as a welcome to the many people who visit the museum each year. Behind him stands the museum itself, and a recreation of Bonnyville's earliest buildings, including the first log church, the first hospital, a fur trader's shack, a schoolhouse, a merchant store and a machine shed housing an impressive collection of antique tractors and cars.
Inside the museum itself, the exhibits honor the Native, French and Ukrainian cultures that were instrumental in forming Bonnyville.
To learn more about the district of Bonnyville, click on the Map .
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