Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum

**Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum**

Location	Scandia, Alberta, Canada
Type	open-air, Irrigation museum
Website	Eastern Irrigation District Historical Park

The Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum is an open-air museum in Southern Alberta, Canada. The museum includes a historic 1925 Alberta Wheat Pool grain elevator, Bow Slope Stockyard, and displays of how irrigation has affected the prosperity of the area.^[1] The museum is part of Eastern Irrigation District Historical Park, which also includes a blacksmith shop, barn, general store, stock yards and river ferry.

Jenner Station

In 2011-2012 the community and museum society moved the historic 103-year-old Canadian Pacific Railway station from the hamlet of Jenner to their park in Scandia.^[2] The station has since been restored and is now used as a theater and community gathering place.^[3]

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External links

Eastern Irrigation District Historical Park
Alberta Registered Historic Places - SCANDIA's ALBERTA WHEAT POOL GRAIN ELEVATOR AND BOW SLOPE STOCKYARD

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Scandia Eastern Irrigation District Museum

Jenner Station

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