Wetaskiwin District Heritage Museum Centre & City of Wetaskiwin Archives
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Category: Archives Collection
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Exploring Wetaskiwin’s Historic Murals
If you’ve driven behind the Heritage Museum in the past couple of weeks you couldn’t have missed our new murals. This got me thinking about murals in Wetaskiwin in general. Murals, or at least something being painted onto a wall, have always been a part of Wetaskiwin’s past. This photo from the City of Wetaskiwin Archives is…
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A Glimpse into Wetaskiwin: Early 1900s Community Insights
To restart this little series, I decided to share my favourite shot of the young community of Wetaskiwin. This photo dates to ca. 1901, before Alberta was even a Province and we were still a part of the North West Territories. There is likely not much in this photo that you recognize today, with the possible exception…