Medalta Potteries CNHS -- Medicine Hat AB CAN
N 50° 01.895 W 110° 39.010
12U E 525054 N 5542200
Second of two historical markers placed by the Canadian Government at this historic industrial site
Waymark Code: WM18634
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 06/06/2023
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This particular historical marker is located at the entrance to the Medalta Pottery Museum in the Medalta Pottery historic district.
The marker reads as follows:
"[Canada Coat of Arms]
MEDALTA POTTERIES
Medalta Potteries Limited shipped the West’s first non-agricultural manufactured goods, “Canadian-made stoneware, from Canada clay, made by Canadian workmen and financed by Canadian capital,” to eastern Canada in 1921. Name for Medicine Hat, Alberta source of plentiful gas and clays, but Delta used and expanded the 1912 premises of an earlier pottery to produce a wide variety of utilitarian and decorative wares for homes, institutions, hotels and the Armed Forces. These beehive kilns and manufacturing buildings bear witness to adult those prominence throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
Historic site and monuments Board of Canada.
Government of Canada"
Type of Marker: Cultural
Sign Age: Historic Site or Building Marker
Parking: very easy
Placement agency: Government of Canada
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