names recorded in the guest
book in the first eight
months of operation. Sam
lived on-site, and the Museum
was often open seven days a
week from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00
p.m. Sam's ever expanding
collection soon outgrew this
modest setting, and in 1970,
as a provincial centennial

project, the local Rotary
Club constructed a larger
building to house the Museum
and its live-in Curator. Sam
was a hospitable guide - a
veritable fount of knowledge
who even prepared tea and
biscuits for his favourite
guests. Sam passed away in
1978, by which time the Town

of The Pas had taken over the
administration of the Museum.
   Since that time the
Museum has continued to grow
and evolve under the
direction of a number of
staff, the most notable of
whom was Paul Thistle, a long-
serving Curator who oversaw
the renovation of The Pas

Court House and Community
Building into a purpose-
designed, climate controlled
museum building, and the
subsequent move of the
Museum's encyclopedic
holdings into the new
facility.