Stop 39, Manitoba Agricultural Museum

I knew this was for us the minute it came up on Google search.  We're the only camper in the 200 site campground.  A dad with a tent showed up with 2 kids.  Huge rapeseed fields all around us.  Frances is looking forward to the museum visit tomorrow.

We arrived at the museum 2 hours before it opened, but they let us tour it anyway.  Most of the exhibits were of farm machinery, and were housed outside.  We saw lots of steam powered tractors.   We saw threshers.  Like most of these museums, there was a recreation of village life, including smithy shop, general store, etc.  The main attraction was a tractor built by the Versatile Corporation, Big Roy.  This was a very large tractor with an all wheel drive set up.  It was built on specification for use in Australia, but was never used as it was deemed impractical.

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