Donalda Museum
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What's Going On in Donalda
Have some fun, meet your neighbours, and support your favourite charity.
Roast Beef Supper
in support of
Camp Living Hope
Cowboy poetry and Country Humour
Featuring
Vic Stuckey and Allen Jacobson
Music From Ben Kellert
Silent and Live Auction
Saturday, March 20, 2010 5:30 p.m.
Donalda Community Hall
Adults: $20.00
Children 6 - 12: $10.00
Advance tickets only.
Tickets available from:
Country Convenience Store in Donalda
Harvey Vikse 403-883-2474
Wade Montgomery 403-883-2566
Museum Fundraisers
Now available:
Downtown Donalda A history book in pictures.
This two-volume set of historical photographs is a perfect way to celebrate Donalda's future by celebrating her past. Together, the books contain nearly 40 photographs of Donalda's Main Street and other business from about 1913 to about 1960.
Volume I contains images of Main Street and its businesses.
30 pages, $50.00 each
Volume II has business that were equally important, but not located on Main Street.
22 pages, $40.00 each
To purchase books or calendars, call the museum office: 403-883-2100.
Roots and Branches
Donalda & District Museum is collecting family stories for a possible future update of the local history book, Donalda's Roots and Branches, which was published in 1980.
If you or your family have ever lived in Donalda or the surrounding area, or if you had a business here, whether you were here for a year or for a century, we'd like to know your story. We would also like to have copies of any funeral programs or newspaper obituaries that you might have. These are often very good sources of information about people who are no longer able to tell their own stories.
No publication date has yet been set, but we feel it is important to have as much information as possible available before beginning. It would be a sad loss to history if your family stories are not preserved for the future.
Please contact the museum office if you can help. We can't do it without you.
Donalda's Chinese Restaurants
Donalda & District Museum is also looking for information to contribute to a new exhibit on the village's Chinese restaurants. A preliminary search has discovered that, as early as 1913, the Donalda Café was owned by the Poon family, including Jack and Jor, Henry, Wing, Num, and Norman, and that the Donalda Hotel had a Chinese cook, Tewar Jikson, in its' café by 1916.
If you know anything about any of these restaurants, or the people who operated them, please contact the museum office. We'd love to hear from you.
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