In 1971 a group of Arkona Lions Club members approached Ted Baxter, then living in Forest, to see if he would consider moving to Arkona, and display his collections of Pre-historic artifacts and Fossils in the recently vacated Arkona Public School. The Lions would provide Ted with accommodations nearby. Ted accepted and thus began over 50 years of the development of the Arkona Lions Museum. Ted Baxter maintained his curatorship of the museum at the Arkona School site until 1986 when Ted retired at age 88 and the museum was moved to its present site at the Rock Glen Conservation Area. The new site was renamed the Arkona Lions Museum and Information Centre. Over the years under Ted’s tutelage and later Bob O’Donnell’s and Adam Wisniewski’s, thousands of students and adults have been given a rare and wonderful exposure to the rich story of Arkona and area’s archaeology and palaeontology. With new display cases, visual displays and self-guiding signage the museum provides an excellent resource to learners of all ages of the wonderful story of our area from 400 million years to the establishment of Canada.