Lacombe & District Historical Society

The Society works to preserve and promote the history of the Lacombe region, The Michener House Museum & the Lacombe Blacksmith Shop. The Lacombe & District Historical Society (#6288), formerly known as Maski-pitoon Historical Society, was incorporated May 5, 1971. Before officially becoming a Society, the organization met to discuss the purchase of the Grace Methodist parsonage, the birthplace of Governor General Daniel Roland Michener. The purchase of the site occurred October 11, 1972 and restoration was completed in the earlier part of 1984. In 1991, the Society purchased and restored the Lacombe Blacksmith Shop Museum – the oldest, operational, on original site blacksmith shop in Alberta.

Since 2008, the Society has been recognized by the Alberta Museums Association as a Recognized Museum and has maintained year-round permanent staff and volunteers. This has allowed the Lacombe Museums to act as a source of school tours & programming, hosting special events for the community, and having our collection of over 30,000+ items in our archives accessible for researchers.

The Lacombe & District Historical Society acknowledges that we are living, working, and volunteering in the traditional territories of the ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ Nêhiyaw (Cree) people of Treaty 6. We are respectful of the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit people whose footsteps have marked this land for centuries.