Radisson youth who runs museum launches book to inspire others

Tyreman spent six months writing the book. He said his father Christopher helped with the project.

“It’s a step-by-step guide of how to create your own business,” he said. “I always read other books and they never seem to actually tell you anything really important.”

From his own experience, Tyreman said he knows it can be a long slog day-by-day running any business, so he addressed that in the book, too.

He said some of his friends told him they didn’t know how to start a business and he hopes the book provides a bit of direction. He describes his book as a “how-to-guide” for innovators, ages eight to 80, to give them a concise clear path to start their own companies and products.

Tyreman, who is home-schooled, started the museum in 2016 and sees himself more as an innovator than an entrepreneur.

The museum contains a wide variety of mineral pieces as well as a recent acquisition – a replica baby T-Rex that he purchased from a company in England. Some of the other finds include a meteorite from Argentina as well as Ammolite from Lethbridge, Alta.

At an early age, Tyreman had an interest in starting a rock collection from what he found in the area and items he discovered online. Shortly after he met Stewart Sesula, a rock dealer in the Saskatoon area.

When Sesula passed away in 2015 he left his collection to Tyreman “to do something good with it for kids,” Tyreman said.

“He wanted a museum for kids so they could also see and experience the earth,” he added.

The youth named the museum in Sesula’s memory.

Tyreman started the museum using the front room of a building he is leasing on Main Street in Radisson. He later expanded it into the back room, and now plans to open up the upper floor in about a year to further increase the size of the museum as his collection continues to grow. He plans to purchase the building in the near future.

The youth said he maintains and funds the museum entirely from sales and donations alone. He sets aside about 10 per cent of his earnings each year for charity.

“I think I’ve given away about $20,000 over the past four years,” he said.

Tyreman said his parents haven’t put any money into the museum because “they really wanted me to know what it was like to strive for something.”

That’s a concern he has, as he finds many young people today often don’t take the initiative when they want to start a project.

“Everything is handed to people,” Tyreman said. “Parents want their kids to have all the things they didn’t have. But the reason they didn’t have it is what made them into what they are today. By giving them [money] it kind of cripples them actually because you don’t have any goals to look forward to. You don’t get on your hands and knees and dig for eight hours a day. That’s something I feel a lot of people don’t understand.”

He said now that he has completed his book he looks forward to seeing how people react.

“I really hope it changes people’s lives” he said.

The self-published book will be available at Tyreman’s museum and online through Amazon.

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by Angela Brown

Radisson youth who runs museum launches book to inspire others

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