Southern Alberta museum staff find live grenade in archives [Video]

Last month, the newly-rebranded Tank 77 Museum in Taber hired a new manager, Taia DeBona. She immediately got to work sorting through old boxes in the archives — a daunting task for such a small organization.

“We have a lot in collections and because I’m new, I’m not really familiar with everything that we have and I’m trying to work on reorganizing everything,” said DeBona.

About a month after she was hired, her first real test arrived. She had her first group tour of the southern Alberta museum.

“I was kind of nervous because it was a bunch of teenagers and I was like, how am I going to occupy a bunch of teenagers?”

However, the group was from a single demographic — air cadets. This gave her an idea to make the tour more interesting.

“I thought, well, I should get all of our war stuff because I thought …