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Fashion Memories in Wetaskiwin: Share Your Story
The Wetaskiwin & District Heritage Museum is developing an exhibit about fashion in Wetaskiwin and the surrounding area through the years, and we need your help! As with all our exhibits and displays, we want to tell this story from a local point of view and to do this we need you! What are some…
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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…
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Chinese New Year 2024: Family, Festivities, and Good Fortune
The dawn of a new year may have come and went on the 1st of January, but the celebrations are yet to cease for those who observe the traditional Chinese calendar. This year Chinese New Year’s falls on February 5th, bringing families together to feast, watch fireworks, and exchange red paper envelopes as a symbol…
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Judge Paul Adilman: A Legacy in Wetaskiwin’s Court
Moving on into this week, the heritage museum would like to share with you judge Paul Adilman’s nameplate from his time serving at the provincial court here in Wetaskiwin. Adilman graduated from law school in Saskatoon in 1959. He moved to Wetaskiwin in 1961 to work with Fred McNaughton to start McNaughton Adilman and Siris…
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Celebrating Asian Heritage Month: Wetaskiwin and Ashoro’s Friendship
May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada, so this week, we would like to share Wetaskiwin’s heritage with Asia through its sister city in Ashoro, Japan. The district of Ashoro is located on the island of Hokkaido, home to nearly 12,000 people. In July of 1986, the first adult delegation from Ashoro arrived in Alberta…
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Exploring Ruby Heggerud’s Contribution to Wetaskiwin History
The museum wants to share this miniature furniture from Ruby Heggerud (nee Asplan). She was significantly involved in the community along with her husband, Melvin. The couple would have Bruce Heggerud, who was generous enough to donate the items. Ruby and her husband Melvin were both born and raised in the Vang District (The Scandinavian…
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Exploring Heritage: The Rasmuson Coffee Pot and Family Legacy
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…
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The Last Working Payphone in Wetaskiwin
Ring Ring! Incoming call from the latest artifact shared by the Heritage Museum. This was the last working Payphone in Wetaskiwin. Telus removed it from the hospital on June 16, 2022. With personal cell phones increasing in the developed world, the payphone demand has decreased. The decrease in orders started in early 2000.Public payphones have…
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Fort Ethier and the North-West Resistance: A Historical Insight
The Heritage Museum would like to share this drawing of Fort Ethier. The artist is a one B Odell. This image was a part of Bob Vickerson’s collection of art. He believes it belongs to a series of drawings from the 1970s. Fort Ethier was constructed in 1885 by Major General Thomas Bland Strange, who…