The first Kindergarten Class at New Brigden, Alberta 1983.

The Crossroads Museum received wonderful donations from the descendants of the Howard and Eloise Ireland family. Family items like a porcelain doll and even family albums were donated to us in 2024.

The Pop Pez was made to vend hot popcorn for only 10 cents. It was made in the mid to late 1940s. This particular popcorn machine was an upright model, but countertop models were also made.

Pioneers worked extremely hard, but they also knew the importance of celebrating together as a community and having fun.

In early 1928, Gelbert Kasa bought a second hand 1927 Chevrolet from Mr. C.V. Johnson. He promised that when he traded it in on a new car, he would get his money back.

Last summer, The Crossroads Museum received quite the item from the Kimber family of Youngstown—an old wooden phonograph with records within the compartments.

This is a photo of the building of Highway No. 9 between Calgary and Saskatoon in 1930-1931. Roads were built with horsepower and manpower and small, basic equipment, due to lack of funds.

Joyce (Jorgensen) Radcliffe who grew up near New Brigden played with the band known as The Happy Plus during her high school years.

In May 2025, the Empress and District Historical Society unveiled the beautifully restored dray wagon which is on permanent display at the historic 1914 CPR Train Station in Empress.

Fifty years later students from the graduating class of South Central High School gathered again in Oyen to reflect, reminisce and share their life experiences over the past five decades.

He’s quite a guy. The leather and rock type. Bert has been around a long time. A long, long time. Since 1855. Sunday, July 15, Bert turned 107. He looks 70.

An Alberta couple found this newspaper clipping and posted it on Facebook. Notice the date of this issue of the Lethbridge Herald is June, 1961.

With much regret, I am informing Echo readers that I can no longer write archived, history-related weekly columns as I have done for the last ten months – and previously for many years.

The Dziuba, Dumanowski, Garszczal, and Mikosz families provide brief but valuable sketches of what caused them to leave their Polish homeland during WWII…

The “Siberian Six,” I silently called them, six people in four families living here, friends of my parents, all with a remarkable story to tell although it has been somewhat muted…

Gerard and Annie Peck, as previously noted, moved from Oyen to Calgary in 1938 where they retired.

David Peck and his wife Edith, the inspiration of this story, unlike his parents, generated few if any local news stories while raising three children on a farm near Lacombe…

The year 1937 began with the customary New Year’s Eve dance in Oyen - music provided by the Excel Orchestra while the OK Orchestra was entertaining at Cereal…

This is an ongoing summary of news events concerning the Gerard Peck family in 1936. Mrs. Annie Peck led prayers at the “World Day of Prayer” in Oyen in early March.

Mr. and Mrs. Peck holidayed in England from May to the end of August 1929. In the meantime, their eldest son Hubert, ranching near Cochrane…