The Sukanen Ship Pioneer Village and Museum will host a four-day International Harvester Collectors event in 2021.
Chapter 38 of the IHC Collectors annual show will come to the museum July 23-25, show chairman Darald Marin told the museum’s first membership meeting since February.
The show will feature displays of vintage IHC farm equipment and the IHC building will be complete by then.
No threshing bee will happen as there won’t be any sheaves from this year. The museum didn’t plant oats this spring, leaving the fields fallow.
A tractor pull may be held to substitute for threshing.
Marin is planning a tractor drive on the Thursday before the show to view the Baildon effluent irrigation system which irrigates 2,500 acres with treated effluent from Moose Jaw sewage lagoons.
Museum president Gord Ross said the Sukanen museum is negotiating to relocate a private museum to a new building here.
The Stoughton Museum, which is closing, has donated numerous items, including a six-foot tall hand-built replica steam engine tractor.
The meeting set dates for Sukanen events in 2021 with the antique and collectibles show March 19-20; opening day May 12; Spring Fling Car Show June 6; Family Day, July 17; Threshing Bee Sept. 11-12; closing day Sept 12; and the Haunted Museum October 23.
Ron Walter can be reached at [email protected]
