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Monday 10am - 4pm Tuesday 10am - 4pm Wednesday 10am - 4pm Thursday 10am - 4pm Friday 10am - 4pm Saturday 10am - 4pm

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Nobleford Area Museum

Name: Nobleford Area Museum
Address: 225 Milnes Street , Box 505, Nobleford, AB, T0L1S0, CA
Telephone: (403) 824-3909
Price range: $$

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The Nobleford Area Museum is located in the original Noble Blade Factory and is a Historic Building

05/25/2026

Information pamphlets will be in your mailboxes this week as well as entry forms. Can't wait to see what's cookin!

04/22/2026

We are still looking for those 1920-30's themed favourite family recipes, recipe books, recipe cards, stories , photos of early cooks in the kitchen etc...to display in our new summer exhibit focusing on the early kitchen. Contact Sheila ( PM, DM) for more information.
Stay tuned for a big announcement in May, planned for Heritage Day, July 18th.

04/04/2026

Happy Easter everyone! I've been thinking about our 1920's theme, and Easter cards and postcards were the very thing for that era. Here's some classics:

03/14/2026

With Easter just a few weeks away, I can't imagine not having a Reese's peanut butter cup in my Easter basket. Once called penny cups, these delicious delights were manufactured in 1928 by Harry B Reese and were sold in bulk to retailers for only a penny each.

02/16/2026

Puffed wheat hit the store shelves in 1926. I remember having this for breakfast and the chocolate squares made for tasty snacks. Our family rabbit is soon turning 10 years and eats it now as he has trouble eating the hard pellets.
The puffed wheat square might be an item at the Museum's planned 1920's themed Baking contest and bake sale. Yum!
Stay tuned for upcoming details! Get those cook books and recipes ready!

02/06/2026

Do you have a favourite food memory? A well worn handwritten recipe from your great great Aunt Edna? Are you from Nobleford, Monarch or an outlying area? We'd love to hear, see and possibly showcase beloved food memories ( between 1920-1950) and share these stories at the Nobleford Area Museum this summer. Please email or post your memories and treasured recipes, detail as much information as possible and any photos you could share. Photos will be scanned and returned.
email: [email protected]
Post: Box 505 Nobleford AB T0L 1S0
textme Sheila : 403-993-9798
I am looking forward to getting some great responses!

01/23/2026

A big THANK-YOU to all the people and volunteers who participated in the recent charity casino for the Museum. I know some did double duties for other local clubs , too. Without your support our local organizations would severely lack capital to move forward with projects.

01/14/2026

Happy New Year and welcome to the 1920's kitchen. We are searching for loans or acquisitions to recreate a vintage kitchen to display this summer. Any unique and interesting kitchen gadgets would also add to the display. Don't forget historical cook books and aprons.
Get in touch with me, Sheila, by messenger if you have something that we could use. Start searching for that excellent 1920's flapper pie recipe for the 1920's Bake Off Competition .

09/24/2025

Newlands School opened 11 Nov 1904. Teachers boarded with local families in the area and both teachers and students had to walk or ride horses for long distances to attend. By 1924 after the school reopened a house or teacherage was provided for the teachers so they could live on the property. The Newlands School, like most schools, was also used as the social centre for the community. It held dances, meetings, church services and band concerts.

Recollections from Doris Hedenstrom (nee Fritz)
“About 1919 a severe drought brought the sky darkening dust storms and drifting soil, that covered up the fences and piled the sand up to window sills of the school. The school was closed for a time and we were taken to Nobleford by a horse drawn van. Many farmers took their turn providing horses and driving time, to pay part of their taxes. “

Students walked to school in good weather and often barefoot. One day the classes were dismissed at 4 o’clock and found the outside ground covered in green army worms. The kids stepped carefully and warily all the way home.
School was closed in the mid 1920’s due to the drought and dust storms. Reopened 1926.

Recollections from Helene Cormier Urwin 1929-1935
Helene accepted her first teaching position at Newlands in 1929. She recalled the long walk to school in the deep snow of the cold winters; the drafty school, which the old pot-bellied stove failed to heat adequately; the frozen ink wells; the hot dusty summers and the pesky grasshoppers in the fields she crossed on the way to school.

“The school Christmas Concert was a prime example of community involvement. The ladies made costume and props; the men made the plank stage and seats for the audience. Sheets were used for stage curtains and dressing rooms. Willing hands made light labour of dismantling the room for the dance that followed. I remember Bella Gwillim always took down the tree and Grannie Claydon cleared a section at the back of the room for the sale of pop at 5 cents per bottle. Those were the pre-babysitting days when the whole family came early and stayed late.”

09/18/2025

MONARCH SCHOOL tid bits:

Established Sept 24, 1908. The school house was built on the south side of Monarch and opened in January, 1909 with J. Horohan as teacher. It closed its doors in June of 1964.
Recollections from F. Dekker
“Monarch’s young men by now were showing a marked business acumen particularly when the teacher paid a small bounty for gopher tails. Upon collection, she promptly threw them into the stove. During noon hour when she was home for lunch, the boys carefully retrieved them from the stove which was not lit during the warm spring days, and then sold them back to her in the afternoon.”

Some of the readers for the time were The Canadian Readers, Book1, Tom Tinker Had a Dog, Daffy-Down-Dilly Has Gone Up to Town, and In a Yellow Petticoat.
The Union Jack Flag hung proudly on the wall and students learned to draw it with the wide and narrow bands of white in the correct positions.

09/01/2025

Sadly, the museum is closed for this season. But it is available by appointment for visits, small group tours, school education etc. Just call or DM us. Thanks to everyone who came to see our museum and to those who enjoyed the books. Books are still available until the end of September. Call to set up a time to look and pick up books for those long winter nights!

Address

225 Milnes Street , Box 505
Nobleford, AB
T0L1S0

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4pm
Tuesday	10am - 4pm
Wednesday	10am - 4pm
Thursday	10am - 4pm
Friday	10am - 4pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

Telephone

(403) 824-3909

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