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Hansen-Ross Pottery was named for business partners Folmer Hansen and David Ross, and it was in operation for over 40 years. They are best known for their Scandinavian-inspired modernist pottery and utilitarian functional ware made between the late 1950s and 2005. Throughout the 1960s, their ceramics were included in a number of important survey exhibitions of Canadian craft - perhaps the most influential was the craft exhibition in the Government of Canada Pavilion at Expo 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. Folmer Hansen and David Ross considered themselves to be artist craftsmen and took a consciously non-industrial stance, placing considerable emphasis on making beautifully designed, handmade ceramics out of Saskatchewan clay. Hansen-Ross Pottery is one of the reasons that ceramics is still such a strong part of Saskatchewan's art history and material culture.