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Most of your questions are best answered by our Museum Manager, Dawn Stewart.
Street Address: 2110 - 21 Avenue, Didsbury
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Didsbury's First Teacher Grandson of Jacob Y. Shantz, the founder of Didsbury, Ephraim Weber was the first teacher in the Immigration Shed in Didsbury.
He wrote his first letter to her in March of 1902, writing at least 11 letters to her before the end of the year. He was encouraged by her engaged response to his first letter. One letter she wrote him was 30 hand-written pages long! The original letters are in The Public Archives in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1960, these letters were compiled into a book by author Wilfred Eggleston called "The Green Gables Letters". You can come in and read these letters as you sit in a turn-of-the-century desk in our heritage schoolroom.
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Besides being the first teacher, Ephraim Weber had another claim to fame. He was an aspiring writer, and was a long-time correspondent with Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables! |
DIDSBURY MUSEUM 2110 - 21 Avenue Box 1175 Didsbury, Alberta T0M 0W0 Phone: 403-335-9295 E-Mail Us |
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ADMISSION BY DONATION Suggested donation $5 per person Wheelchair Accessible |
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| The Didsbury Museum is owned by the Didsbury & District Historical Society and operated by volunteers. |
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