Recognizing LGBTQ2S+ Histories Spark Your Pride and the Western Development Museum bring communities together to share life stories and to evoke pride. Written by Sydney Lockhart — Posted June 24, 2021 Members of the Spark Your Pride 2019 committee sit in an antique car at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon. Photo courtesy Spark Your Pride and the Western Development Museum Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, Mike McCoy feared being arrested and sent to jail because homosexual acts were illegal in Canada. Even now, he says, many of his peers still struggle to tell their stories after having been treated like criminals early in life.