Category: Creamery

Opening Day 2025

Opening Day in Markerville is always a lively event, and Saturday, May 17th, 2025 was no exception!
The day began at Fensala Hall for Pancake Breakfast with staff and volunteers ready to greet the many visitors that began showing up at 9 am. With sausages, ham, scrambled eggs, watermelon; and pancakes with syrop, berries and whipped topping, there were tasty offerings – including gluten free options – to please everyone.

As breakfast was winding down, staff were already finishing preparations for the Kaffistofa and Creamery Museum opening at 11 am and ready to serve up some ice cream this long weekend!

Season Cleanup 2025

Above: Marie, Marlene (and d’Arcy behind the camera) are happy with the fruits of their labour at the Church.

Historic Markerville’s May 10th, 2025 cleanup went very smoothly, with only a few items left to check off the “to do” list. Some of the volunteers and other helpers this year spread the workload over a week or so, from raking leaves and gutter clearing to Cemetery cleanup, and even the big red Tent in front of the Creamery Stage was put up the day before! Still, there were cobwebs to sweep, gazebo and picnic tables to wash down, signs to put up, and some ongoing work on the little library to do.

All in all, we’re pretty much ready for PANCAKE BREAKFAST and OPENING DAY on May 17th, 2025.

d’Arcy G., Marie S. and Marlene P. took on the Lutheran Church, vacuuming and wiping everything down; making sure that it’s ready to go for the upcoming COUNTRY AND GOSPEL CONCERT FUNDRAISER on Sunday, May 25th!

Book Launch for “Churning Butter”

CHURNING BUTTER, Christian Marker and the Rise of the Alberta Dairy Industry, is 342 pages in length, and contains just over 100 illustrations. Please join us for the book launch on Friday, May 23rd, 2025.

This book by historian Rolf Buschardt Christensen is a partial history of the birth and early development of the dairy industry in Alberta. In the process we will follow Marker’s career as Dairy Commissioner and we will be introduced to some of the dairymen he met along the way.

Mark Friday, May 23 on your calendar, and come out to meet with author Rolf Buschardt Christensen at the Creamery Parlour Café (basement of the Historic Markerville Creamery) for this exciting book launch!

Kenny and Keith Sveinson

We would like to wish a very happy 86th birthday to two of our favorite Markerville twins Kenny and Keith Sveinson! We hope your day is filled with laughs, love and memories (and lots of coffee and ice cream of course)! Thank you for celebrating with us and all of your support over the years! 

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Kenny and Keith Sveinson celebrating their 86th birthdays outside the Creamery in Markerville
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