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Posts Tagged ‘heritage events’
Friday, October 26th, 2012
It must be Halloween! Several Ontario Museums are hosting ghoulish events this weekend:
If you are going to be in the Newmarket area this Saturday, October 27, drop by the Elman W. Campbell Museum, between 7:00 and 8:30 pm, and join in their Spooktacular Halloween Party. Children aged 4 to 10 are invited to come in costume for games, craft, costume parade and a Hallowe’en story.
Admission is $5.50 per child. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Museum is located at 134 Main Street South, Newmarket. Pre-registration is required.
For more information, please call (905) 953-5314 or email elmanmuseum@rogers.com.
Over in Kirby, the Clarke Museum is holding its 10th Annual Historic Pumpkin Bee. The Clarke Museum is located at, 7086 Old Kirby School Road, Kirby Ontario. The event runs from 11:00 am – 4:00pm.
Throughout the day, you can watch a blacksmith work, carve your own pumpkin for Halloween, have your face painted, make a pioneer toy, or play traditional games from the 1800s. Treat your palette to seasoned pumpkin seeds roasted over an open fire. Tour our traditional one-room schoolhouse, sit at an antique desk, and try writing on a genuine slate board.
Admission to the event is $4.00 per person. The Museum Gift Shop will be open with a selection of local history books and unique Canadian handicrafts.
For more information, call the Museum office at 905-623-2734 or see our website www.claringtonmuseums.com
Have you ever wanted to go on a ghost hunt? Now’s your chance. On Sunday, October 28th, Eldon House in London, Ontario, is hosting the Great Eldon House Ghost Hunt. Tour the house with a special “ghost map” and visit Roxanne Lutz and Alex Chartrand in Eldon House’s Interpretive Centre to discover more about the most famous Eldon House ghost, Wenman Wynniatt.
You can hunt for ghosts between the hours of 1:00 pm – 4:00pm. Admission is by donation.
Eldon House is located at, 481 Ridout Street, London ON N6A 5H4 (map)
For information about Eldon House: Tel: 519.661.0333, or visit their website at: http://www.eldonhouse.ca/
Have a spooktacular weekend!
Tags: Clarke Museum, Eldon House, elman w. campbell museum, heritage events, Kirby, London, newmarket
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
The Vankleek Hill Family History Weekend is taking place this Saturday, October 27th through to Sunday the 28th. The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will be in attendance with some OGS publications and maybe an answer or two for some of your genealogical queries. Other activities to choose from include:
Antiques Appraisal at St. John Anglican Church Hall.
- Two Sessions:
- Morning 10:00 am – Noon
- Afternoon, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
- Appraiser: Janet Carlile, an independent, Sotheby’s-accredited antiques appraiser, best known for her tours with the Canadian Antiques Roadshow
- Pricing: As a fundraiser in support of the Vankleek Hill Museum, $10 per item for a maximum of 3 items per person. With three items you get free entry to Sunday’s paper conservation workshop!
- Tickets: Tickets for Janet Carlile are available at Scotiabank, Vankleek Hill or at the event door. Can’t make it to the Bank? Call the Museum to reserve: 613-678-2323.
Harold MacMillan brings ‘the Gaelic’ to life!
- Saturday, October 27, 2012
- Location: Musée Vankleek Hill Museum
- Time: 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
- Overview: Harold returns to the Vankleek Hill Museum to introduce you to the unique history of this language in our region, and to teach you familiar Gaelic phrases.
Paper & Photo Preservation Workshop
- Date: Sunday, October 28, 2012
- Time: 1 :30 p.m.
- Location: Vankleek Hill Community Centre
- Pricing: For $10, bring your paper-based treasures to learn more about care, keeping and preservation methods.
- Overview: Kyla Ubbink, an accredited and certified conservator who has helped restore art by Picasso and Warhol, will be at the Community Centre. This is a 90-minute workshop presentation on how to preserve your photos, albums, scrapbooks for future generations. It finishes with a question period.
Contact Info:
More information will become available as the weekend activities develop.
Tags: heritage events, OGS, Ottawa Branch, Vankleek Hill Family History Weekend
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
As part of their Special and Distinguished Speakers Series, the Humanities Research Group at the University of Windsor has 3 outstanding lectures coming up in early November:
1.
- Topic: Tecumseh and the Quest for a Native Homeland
- Speaker: Author and Historian, Sandy Antal
- Topic: The Impact of the War of 1812 on the Native Tribes, particularly on the Moravian Delaware of Fairfield.
- Speaker: Daryl Stonefish, Member of the Moravian Tribe
- Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
- Time: 4:00pm
- Location: McPherson Lounge, Alumni Hall and Conference Centre (Map)
2.
- Topic: The Civil War of 1812 in the Detroit River Valley
- Speaker: Alan Taylor, University of California Davis
- Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012
- Time: 7:00pm
- Location: Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University Building (Map)
3.
- Topic: Constitutions: the Struggle for North America during the 1780s and 1790s
- Speaker: Alan Taylor, University of California Davis
- Date: Friday, November 9, 2012
- Time: 10:00 am
- Location: Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University Building (Map)
Contact Information:
Yvette Bulmer
ymebulm@uwindsor.ca
(519)253-3000 ext.3508
For complete information on these and other University of Windsor lectures and events, please consult their website: http://www.uwindsor.ca/hrg/
You will find the Upcoming Events Calendar on the bottom right of the page.
Tags: heritage events, special and distinguished speaker series, university of windsor
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
If you are looking for something to do in the Oakville area this Wednesday night, the Oakville Historical Society is hosting another of their Speaker Series events:
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: St John’s United Church at Dunn and Randall. Enter by the Randall St. entrance.
Topic: “Red Coated Ploughboys – the Volunteer Battalion of the Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada” and “A Call to Arms – the War of 1812″
Speaker: Richard Feltoe, living historian enactor and author.
Contact Info: http://www.oakvillehistory.org/index.htm
Tags: A Call to Arms, heritage events, Oakville Historical Society, Redcoated Ploughboys, Richard Feltoe, Speaker Series Event, The War of 1812, Volunteer Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
This is the final weekend for Doors Open events in Ontario. Huron closes out the year with a variety of events and historic venues you can visit. For all the details you need to plan your day, just click on the link: http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/Events/Huron-County.aspx
If you are looking for something to do in the Toronto area this weekend, there is a unique event happening at Toronto’s first Post Office, located at 260 Adelaide Street East. To wit:
Quill-writing workshop and tea
The inaugural meeting of the
YORK REGENCY SOCIETY
and the
YRS Letter-writing Club
will be held at
Toronto’s First Post Office
(260 Adelaide Street East,
phone 416 865-1833)
on Sunday, October 14th, 2012, 1 – 4 p.m.
Learn how to write letters with a quill, just as they did in the early City of York (the 1812 era). Mail your own letter at Toronto’s First Post Office museum, complete with sealing wax! Enjoy afternoon tea, explore the museum, and meet other history enthusiasts. The meeting also includes admission to this gem of a small museum as well as afternoon tea and the chance to browse in the enchanting little gift shop stocked with many unusual items, including antique inkpots.
Admission for the workshop-meeting on October 14 is $20. This event is open to the general public: you do not need to be a member of the YRS to attend. However, tickets are available by pre-registration only.
For information on registration and access to payment options click on the link: http://danceweavers.ca/janeausten.html
Enjoy your weekend!
Tags: doors open ontario, heritage events, huron, quill writing workshop and tea, toronto's first post office, york regency society, york regency society inaugural meeting
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
If you are looking for a nice diversion on a fall afternoon, why not take a tour of Benares Historic House and enjoy Afternoon Tea afterwards. The next Tea event at Benares is on October 14, 2:30 – 4:30 pm. Information about reservations, costs and location can be found here: http://www5.mississauga.ca/rec&parks/websites/museums/pdfs/afternoon_tea.pdf
Tags: 2012, afternoon tea, benares historic house, heritage events, mississauga central library, week of october 8
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Thursday, October 4th, 2012
Looking for something to do in the London area this weekend. Check out Fanshawe Pioneer Village and go back in time to see how our ancestors celebrated Thanksgiving. Watch demonstrations of weaving, blacksmithing, and woodworking. Explore displays of agricultural equipment and bee keeping and watch busy farmwives put up preserves for the winter. For the kids there are games, printing in the Print Shop and meeting the farm animals.
A great way to work off all that Turkey!
This will be the final open weekend of the Fanshawe Pioneer Village Season.
Contact Info: www.fanshawepioneervillage.ca
Tags: fanshawe pioneer village, heritage events, London, Ontario
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
City of Toronto Archives and the Ontario Genealogical Society invite you to The Toronto History Lecture
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: City of Toronto Archives, 255 Spadina Road, Toronto
Brief Overview:
Please join us again this year in spreading the word about The Toronto History Lecture. It will be held on October 24 at 7:30 pm at the City of Toronto Archives and is presented jointly by the Archives and the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
To commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the City of Toronto Museum Services created a Book of Remembrance for the men of York who fell during the war and all the casualties of the Battle of York. Janice Nickerson’s research on the militia men uncovered so many fascinating stories that she decided to put them together in a book, York’s Sacrifice: Militia Casualties of the War of 1812.
For the bicentennial year’s Toronto History Lecture, Janice will tell a few stories of the men, women and children whose lives were transformed by this pivotal event in the history of Toronto.
Admission is free, but reservation is required.
For further details, including a map and driving directions to the Archives at 255 Spadina Road, visit: http://tinyurl.com/czdu3yo
Many members of the heritage community contributed to the great success of last year’s inaugural Toronto History Lecture. We look forward to a similar success on October 24th.
Tags: City of Toronto Archives, heritage events, The Toronto History Lecture, Toronto Branch OGS
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Looking for something to do in the Newmarket area this weekend? Check out the Elman W. Campbell Museum’s Rebel Heartland 1837 Event. The south end of Fairy Lake Park will be transformed into a 19th century military encampment, and later in the afternoon, there will be a reenactment of the Battle of Montgomery’s Tavern.
Adding to the festivities will be wagon rides and performances by Scottish country dancers and the Newmarket Citizens Band. 2012 marks the 175th Anniversary of the Rebellion, so don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime commemoration!
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2012
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Fairy Lake Park (Wesley Brooks Memorial Conservation Area), Newmarket
Click on the link for more details and contact information: http://www.newmarket.ca/en/elmanw.campbellmuseum.asp
Tags: elman w. campbell museum, heritage events, newmarket, rebel heartland 1837
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