Denare Beach · CA

Northern Gateway Museum

On Moody Drive in the lakeside hamlet of Denare Beach, Saskatchewan, the Northern Gateway Museum packs a surprising amount of northern history into one small, friendly room. Its free collection threads together three stories that define this corner of the Canadian Shield: the area's First Nations heritage, the fur trade era, and the boom-and-bust mining towns that once clustered around Amisk Lake. Run by knowledgeable volunteers, it is the kind of place locals point visitors toward to make sense of the region before paddling out onto the same water the voyageurs used.