Parade of Homes | Spring 2017

‘During the 1920s, cooking “by wire” promised to transform kitchen drudgery into an absolute pleasure...’

Well into the space age, appliances were advertised as “wifesavers” that would give women free- dom to pursue hobbies or just kick back while dinner practically cooked itself. The first electric home appliances are literally museum pieces today. Among the exhibits at Mani- toba Hydro’s Manitoba Electrical Museum & Education Centre at 680 Harrow St., there’s an old- time kitchen outfitted with a 1940 McClary stove, a curvy Westinghouse refrigerator and many small appliances and devices of the day. At the time, the former Manitoba Power Company was on a mission to bring electricity to farms across the province, and appliances were a lure. “The exhibit is a replica of a 1940s kitchen, which is the time when electricity was first being intro- duced to farm homes in rural Manitoba,” says Janet Rak, the museum’s public safety and educa- tion coordinator.

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