Wetaskiwin District Heritage Museum Centre & City of Wetaskiwin Archives

The Heritage Museum wants to make you a fresh cup of coffee with this coffee pot artifact. Keith and Dianne Rasmuson got this pot and other dishes fifty-one years ago. They bought the set of dishes from the Grocery & Hardware store when it was located near Wok & Roll Restaurant and thrift store. Together the couple spends 71 years of their lives on Gwynne Vista Farms, originally called Cooked Lake Farms by Keith’s grandfather Edward Rasmuson. The family bought the farm in 1910, and the house was built in 1917. Their wedding was a traditional Ukrainian one, which took three days and took place on June 24, 1972. It poured rain all three days. When the wedding party took a drive down the main street, they all got muddy and stuck because there was no paved road. The mud slowed them down to the point where they were late for the presentation line. All the artifacts in our collection tell exciting stories of our heritage, such as this coffee pot.