Nipigon Museum ...All About Us

See and hear how the Nipigon Museum came to be.

These videos are on the Nipigon-Historical-Museum  facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/Nipigon-Historical-Museum-128774150545422/

If this link does not get you there you can just Google " Nipigon Museum Videos"  and get to us that way.
That will also give you  Destination Nipigon as a choice  which is our video tour of the evolving Nipigon community. And it is full length video on YouTube, for now, and may get put up in sections on the museum Facebook page as well.
All these videos are made by local Thunderstryker Films, Dee McCullay.  He has some good Drone shots of our area and lately of the new Nipigon Highway Bridge and Nipigon River taken just yesterday, Feb. 22, 2020.

Thunderstryker Films does  Paranormal films; Bigfoot films (Sasquatch); UFO  films (Northern Lights is the title of that if I recall correctly,,,sightings in our area over the years) . Some of his films are on YouTube but I think he has set up his own site. (I'm a big help, aren't I)

Back to Nipigon of Many Pasts  It is 14 Parts anywhere from eight minutes to 20 minutes.
We were fortunate to get a New Horizons for Seniors Federal Grant under the title Nipigon Narrations their voice in History  .
We did the two video tours and fifty plus Interviews, and identified hundreds of people in old photographs.(Show and Tell)

The Interviews will likely be put on our Facebook page The Interviews were done by two local residents and then edited by Thunderstryker Films.

Back to our Nipigon Museum video tour call "Nipigon of Many Pasts"

Part one  opens with the Museum Statement of Purpose read by retired Curator Director Roland Choiselat as the camera enters the museum and then continues on in a silent tour through the museum to give you an idea of ALL our displays.
The next Part 2 has Roland and his wife Elvie and myself (current Curator) talking about how we all got involved in creating the museum.  Because it was a creation from an idea to reality fifty years ago. About a twenty minute chit-chat around the table,

Part 3 is all about "Paddle to the Sea" display...the book by Holling Clancey Holling ,1941, inspires many young people to build canoes and throw them in the Nipigon River (where HCH's little canoe started its journey through the Great Lakes waterway to the Atlantic Ocean.)  If you view the video Destination Nipigon you will get this amazing Drone-view of Nipigon's Paddle to the Sea Park.

Part 4 is me talking about our Lithics, Pottery and Copper artefacts.  My statement / conjecture of how some copper tools may have been made has got me in trouble with a Minnesota friend...now I've got to find where I read about that(as I didn't just make it up...I read it or I heard it. If I heard it that's going to be harder to prove)...30 plus centuries ago a people lived right here where our community of Nipigon stands today, and used copper tools. The lithic (stone) tools people  go back 50 to 70 centuries. We ourselves are still in the single digits.

Part 5 introduces you to Mr. Nipigon, Jimmy McCullough, a life-long Nipigon resident who livens up our Museum when he gets to talking.  Here he tells about The Hudson's Bay Company  in Nipigon over the years. By far the most popular viewing of all our Parts so far.

Part 6 tells the story of the Ombabika Compass and the boat Ombabika that navigated the waters of Lake Nipigon from 1906 till it sunk in Jumbo's Cove in 1936.
This part has a name flub that gets edited out in the version I didn't put up...which I will in the next while. Pushed the wrong icon. Duh.

Part 7 is Jimmy again talking about our Nipigon Dairies and milk in glass bottles and the existence of "Dragon Milk."

Part 8  is me with a little talk about our multi-cultures with Finnish being the culture on display.

Part 9  has Jimmy talking about the Catholic Church BELL and Foley who donated it. Then he moves on to the large photos and paintings of Nipigon Bay viewed from where the "new viewing tower" is over the years. He shows where the Rock paintings are located, the Hudson's Bay Company dock, the Mud Flats (little settlement at the waterfront area) and the CNR causeway that changed the Nipigon River in 1910.

Part 10 has Jimmy again with his views about our Military display , the Indigenous people as soldiers for Canada.

Part 11 has Jimmy in his element as he takes you "down the Nipigon river" following the displayed video "Nipigon River Then And Now" and huge wall map showing what the Nipigon River looked like before and after the hydro dams went in and flooded the River of Glory.  He matches a "Nipigon Trails" video from YOUTUBE, playing on a side monitor to where it would take place on the wall map. I'm glad we got him in action for this Tour. This also gets into the World Record Brook Trout catch of 1915, which is sort of central to our whole Fishing Hall of Fame area exhibit.

Part 12 is back to me telling about how the Museum got the Beardmore Viking.Relic replicas and a bit about their history.

Part 13  is a narration from a 2006 Interview of a lady explaining how she got her hair done using our Museum "Hair Curler" when she was young..

Part 14 shows up twice because I missed the edited version the first time I put it up.  This is a new display arriving at the museum just as we were finishing the filming. It is an RCMP uniform . (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) ...so If you don't see me opening the box  you will have to view the second Part 14.

And That's It. Enjoy.