The Daly House Museum is located a block down from the university and has just opened a new exhibit. Sites of Grieving – Sites of Memory: Remembering the Great War marking the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, November 11th, 2019. The exhibit will be on from October 29th 2019 to April 4, 2020 and there will be a high tea and fundraiser to celebrate the new exhibit. There will be two seatings for the tea, 1:30 and 3:30. You can purchase tickets at the Daly House and they are $25 for members and $30 for non-members. The phone number of the Daly House is 204-727-1722 if you would like to call and reserve tickets.

The new exhibit was designed, according to curator Eileen Trott, to tell stories that are community based about various permanent war memorials in southwestern Manitoba. She is quoted as saying that the exhibit “conveys a sense of how these sites of memory served to console communities and bereaved families in wake of the Great War.” The exhibit was inspired by two scrapbooks in the archives of the museum that were created by Laurence V. Smith, a Great War Veteran.

The Daly House’s motto is “Preserving the Past for the Future.” It houses a very large doll house that children love, as well as many interesting artefacts and rural history. Go check out the museum, and the new exhibit!