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Our E-Newsletter
Hi, thank you for checking out the Multicultural Heritage Centre’s March Newsletter. This is where you can find out about all the upcoming events, exhibits, sales, dinners, and anything else that we are up to.
We will also be posting special deals, and announcements for subscribers of our e-newsletter. And as always if there is anything you would like to see in our newsletter, or something you would like to know you can contact us by the social links under our banner. (Twitter, Facebook, Email, Website)
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Have Bag Will Travel - Public Health Nursing
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 “Have Bag will Travel” Adventures in Public Health Nursing (Exhibit)
May 13- Sept 23
Public Health Nurses played a major role in overseeing the health of in the early days of rural Alberta. The first homesteaders generally had to rely on themselves for medical services and it was the general isolation that empowered women to learn and practice medical care with the herbs, roots, and berries that worked for their mothers.
The early homesteaders had to rely on these home remedies and how-to manuals as trained nurses and doctors slowly came West in the early 20th century.
These “pioneering” nurses would become the Alberta’s Public Health Nurses and were the front-line of health education and promotion and provided many pieces of health literature to their patients - pamphlets, brochures, and booklets help people learn how to live healthier lives.
One of their most important jobs was to visit rural and remote areas of the province and made regular visits to “settler homes” where residents rarely saw a doctor. The nurses also performed school health inspections in these areas, gave prenatal and home nursing classes to residents and provided immunizations.
So stop by our current museum exhibit, “Have Bag will Travel”, that showcases and honours the major role of Public Health Nurses in those tumultuous early days of health in rural Alberta.
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Early Remedies to Cure What Ails Ya!
- Kerosene or “coal oil” was a cure-all was known to be used to for many different ailments like sore throats, flu, cuts and coughs. (To cure a sore throat; the kerosene was rubbed on the neck and a couple of drops were taken internally.)
- Goose grease or goose fat had a wide variety of uses, commonly used for chesty colds it was also used for chapped skin, and protecting leather.
- Cornstarch - The early settlers used it to treat burns, canker sores, and for sore dentures.
- Vinegar was used to sooth bad sunburns or insect bites.
- Peanut oil - was used to cure the pain arthritis.
- (I cannot vouch for all of them, but hey I have tried a few and they worked!)
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This is a birds eye view of Main Street Town of Stony Plain circa the 1920s. (Oh my, things have changed.)
If you can name one of the buildings in the photo send us an email and we will list everyone who knew in next month's newsletter.
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In the Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery
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Margie Davidson: Measuring a Year
Exhibition Dates: April 25th to May 23rd, 2015
Video from Shaw TV.
The Gallery will also be hosting an Artist Talk with Margie Davidson at 11am May 23rd before the work is taken down.
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Call for Exhibition Proposals 2016/2017: The Multicultural Heritage Centre
Public Art Gallery (MCPAG).
5411 51 Street Stony Plain, Alberta
Application Deadline: Main Floor Gallery July 1st 2015, Community Gallery applications are accepted year round. Click here for our submission criteria.
The Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery is located on the main floor of the Multicultural Heritage Centre. It is one of seven Public Art Galleries in Alberta and the only one located in rural Alberta. Through regularly changing exhibits the gallery promotes local and regional artists from across the province. The gallery has an opening reception for each exhibit, which enables the public to meet the artist and learn more about the artworks.
Since opening our doors in 1974 MCPAG has exhibited the works of renowned artists such as Alex Janvier, Allen Ball, Royden Mills, and Lyndal Osborne to name a few.
In addition to the Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery is the Community Gallery located in the Dining Room of the Homesteader’s Kitchen on the lower floor of the Old Brick School House. This space showcases emerging artist building professional exhibition experience as well as for established artists in the process of creating new bodies of work to incubate their ideas through public engagement.
If you have any questions please contact
Lucille Frost at lucille@multicentre.org
Applications can be personally delivered to the Centre, emailed to
Lucille Frost at lucille@multicentre.org or mailed care of…
The Multicultural Heritage Centre Public Art Gallery
P.O. Box 2188 – 5411 51 Street Stony Plain, AB T7Z 1X7
ATTN: Lucille Frost, Curator
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