Remember This?

Today we bring you a special Christmas edition of Remember This? with a look at what children in Sault Ste. Marie would likely have had on their lists through the decades. Scroll down to see more photos from the museum's collection.

Wear this thing on a belt around your waist? Sure. Yeah. That must have been, um, super handy. From the Sault Ste.

Working on a time machine in your basement? We suggest you keep up on your flossing and brushing. That is, if you plan on heading back to the past. Especially anywhere between the late 1800s to the 1930s when they used the contraption pictured left.

James Watson Curran sure made his mark. He had the idea for the first Community Day Parade (now known as RotaryFest), convinced Rudyard Kipling (Rudyard Kipling!) to write a poem for our cenotaph, and started something called Wolf Week.

Pictured, at left, is a strange device designed to pull individual strands of hair from one's head. One. By. One. Just kidding! That's a perm machine from the 1930s. Still. Ouch, right? The Sault Ste.

We all know that even (especially?) when it's cold, Saultites can find plenty to do outdoors. Apparently that's nothing new. The Sault Ste.

With Remembrance Day coming on Tuesday, this week's edition of Remember This? reminds us of the toll of war and the cost of freedom. The Sault Ste.

You know what's old? The museum itself. First created in 1920, it wasn't until 1951 that the city-sanctioned board got its own space (Pictured above. Thanks for the furniture Sir James Dunn!) at the Pine Street Armoury for a library/museum.

The leaves have changed colour and back in the day, that meant it was time for local ladies and gents to break out their ball gowns and cummerbunds. That’s right, fall meant social season in the Sault. And it was kind of a big deal.

Way back in the 1890s, 400 men worked dug for years to hollow out the spot where the Sault Canal now runs. And, they were apparently pretty careful about it.