Step back in time for brunch at historic Rutherford House

Stepping into historic Rutherford House always feels a bit like a voyeur’s tour of the lives of the formerly rich and famous.
You can peer into the bedroom where Alberta’s first premier, Alexander Rutherford, and his wife Mattie slept when they moved into their new home shortly after he left office in 1910, or poke around the parlour where for decades they entertained local leading lights.
The red-brick mansion at the University of Alberta, open for public snooping as a provincial hi