Vulcan and District Historical Society Museum and Archives
232 Centre Street T0L2B0 Vulcan, AB, Canada

Rick and El Tokanugu share their story about the Japanese tradition of celebrating New Years. https://www.youtube.com/watch

One more Christmas food tradition-Lefse from Norway. Florence Sokvitne, her niece Colleen, and great-niece Sandra usually made lefse early in the Christmas season, as no Norwegian Christmas was complete without it. https://www.youtube.com/watch

This is a little late but better late than never. Dec. 6 is St. Nicholas or Sinterklaas Eve in the Netherlands. Trina Wickstrom's parents immigrated from the Netherlands and brought the traditions of celebrating Sinterklaas Eve here. Hear her story. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Those of you with French Canadian background might have enjoyed Tortiere at Christmas time. Listen to the Colette Hart's mom tell the story of tortiere for Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Our part of the "On this spot" has now been soft-launched- meaning it isn't quite finished but you can check it out by down-loading the app from your favourite app provider- at no charge. You can check out the more than 50 images that have been added- The walking tour and final images will be up by April 2021.

Elves Brothers stood where the Bell park is now.

The Legion Auxiliaries have played an important role in supporting our women and men in the military as well as our communities. Check out the story of The Ladies Auxiliary Branch 21 Vulcan. https://youtu.be/r2xWwpPHwvA

Kelly Ullery Nash's post about war brides reminded me of this story about Paulette Cochrane. I love this story! https://www.youtube.com/watch

Okay FB friends we are looking for the name of the object on the left side of the picture- It was sort of a traffic director- Marj Webber had a name for it and we can't remember what she called it. Does anyone out there have any idea?

We are working on a very cool free app called https://www.facebook.com/onthisspot/ This app will take you on a walking tour of Vulcan. It will include at least 50 photos- now and then, along with the history. Here is a little teaser of the type of photos that will you find on this app. The first picture is of the tornado of 1927 taken on main street. The second photo is taken from the same spot (Hence the "On this spot") in August.

Happy Farmers Day. Hear Stan Kerh talk about the changes over the years https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LEXNZO4ihgE

There is much in the news lately about covid 19 and the care that is provided in long term care facilities- The seniors in our long term care facility at the Vulcan Community Health Care Centre get excellent care from a wonderful team. The Vulcan Hospital Auxiliary are an important part of team. Here is their story. Happy Rural Health Week- Thanks for all you do. https://youtu.be/bxtZYC0D7-0

This week is EMS week. So thankful to have access to a great team of EMS folks. Our EMS department came from humble beginnings- people who volunteered their time for 7 days at a stretch! Great community builders. Check out their story.