Museum from Home: Happy International Tea Day!
by Shelby Smith
It’s International Tea Day! ☕️
Did you know that tea is the world’s second most consumed drink? Of course water took the #1 spot!
Here is an image from one of our display cases at the Lake of the Woods Museum. Since you can’t visit us in person, check out what our guide book has to say about the contents of this case:
“In 1895, the Canniff & Johnson drugstore advertised that a specialty in their china department was view-china, including views of the falls at Rat Portage, and many other scenes on Lake of the Woods. Such souvenir china would not have been unique to Rat Portage, other than the images that appeared on them. The manufacturer would simply have transferred the selected images onto stock china and sold it to local retailers.
Popular images included Ka-ka-be-kitchewan Falls, Keenora Beach, Sultana Mine, the steamboat Keenora, Winnipeg River Dam, Devil’s Gap, the Court House, and the Tourist Hotel (now the Kenricia).”
Did you know?
The editor of the local newspaper pushed for Kenora to be named “Tresilva” instead. He thought the word was excellent because it could be written without lifting the pen off the paper. The name Tresilva was tremendously unpopular with the townsfolk and was quickly abandoned.