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Museums in the Ottawa Valley 2010
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Arnprior and
District Museum
35 Madawaska Street, Arnprior, K7S
1R6
Founded in 1967, the Arnprior and District Museum chronicles lumber industry and local
history including the Laird McNab and the Royal visit of
1860.
http://www.townarnprior.on.ca/
http://www.townarnprior.on.ca/Museum.htm
Spring/Summer Events:
- Annual July
1st is our biggest day with re-enactors, period dress
costume and a historically good time!
News/Highlights:
- Our $100,000 renovations are
just about done - which means new exhibits, meeting
space, classroom and a fantastic new storage area.
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Barry's Bay Railway Station
19503 Opeongo Line, Barry's Bay ON
www.madawaskavalley.on.ca
Built in the 1890s, the Barry's Bay Railway Station
now houses the Visitor Information Centre, Railway
Museum, and
South of 60 Arts Centre. Our water tower is one
of only two free-standing wooden railway water
towers remaining in Ontario. Water Tower Park
features an outdoor museum of railway and farm
artifacts. |
Railway Station
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Bonnechere
Museum
85 Bonnechere
St., Eganville
613 628 1000
www.bonnechere.ca
Written in stone.
Carved in wood. Silvered in water.
The museum presents our heritage
through fossils, our harvesting of wood and farming
products, the natural wild for recreation along our many
lakes and rivers, and the cultural markers such as our
Bonnechere River history, fossil hunts, craft and art
exhibits, music and song, walkabouts and performances.
Check out
www.bonnechere.ca for roots and activities. |
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The Canadian Clock Museum
60 James Street, Deep River
www.canclockmuseum.ca
This unique museum opened in late May of
2000 as Canada’s only clock museum. It was a millennium
project of long-time Deep River resident Allan Symons and is
based on a collection of Canadian-made clocks that he
started twenty-five years earlier. The current collection
of about sixteen hundred clocks and related horological
items covers the period from the early 1800s to the present
time. Three major companies are well represented: Arthur
Pequegnat (1904-1941, Berlin/Kitchener, Ontario), Westclox
Canada (1920-mid 1980s, Peterborough), and
Harry Snider’s two Toronto-based companies
(1950-1976).
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And
there are many non-clock artifacts on display that are typical of the
various clock design periods, including working old
phonographs and an 1860s melodeon for visitors to play. The museum is open daily during the summer, including
Sunday afternoons, and Tuesday through Saturday from early
September to late May. Guided tours of the exhibits are a
specialty. There has been an average of seven hundred
visitors per year since the opening. The museum is
starting its tenth year open to the public on June 1.
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The museum has played a major role in
collecting and displaying more than one hundred Snider
mantel, alarm, TV lamp and wall clocks, and carrying out
research on Harry Snider’s family clock businesses. These
were the Snider Clock Corporation in Toronto 1950-1957,
followed by the Snider Clock Mfg Company Ltd from 1957 to
1976. Pictures of some of Harry’s clocks are now available
at various internet locations, and the complete House of
Snider story has been hosted in the Community Memories
section of the Virtual Museum of Canada since July of 2008.
That work was done under a small Community Memories project
funded by Heritage Canada in 2007. A comprehensive article
about Snider clocks was published in a
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Kathleen
Hamilton’s North of 49 crossword puzzle that
appears in Canadian newspapers each Saturday
has used the following clue at least seven
times since 2005: “Ont. Town with
Canadian Clock Museum (2 wds)”.
In May of 2002 the museum was featured on CTV
Ottawa’s Regional Contact Program. And there has been other
television, radio, and print coverage over the years.
2010
CELEBRATING TEN YEARS AS
CANADA’S ONLY CLOCK MUSEUM |
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The Champlain Trail Museum and Pioneer
Village is the oldest Museum in Renfrew County. With
the largest collection of artifacts in the Ottawa Valley
it is a local attraction not to be missed!
Located at 1032 Pembroke St. East at the corner of
Angus Campbell Drive, the Museum sits on four acres of
land, consists of a large main founders Hall with many
interesting Ottawa Valley exhibits, the Lowertown
Schoolhouse dating from the 1830s, the Micksburg Church
and the pioneer log home (1879). The pioneer village
includes a blacksmith shop, a woodworking shop, carriage
shed, a fire hall with a bickle fire engine and a train
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Originally opened in 1958 by the Ottawa Valley
Historical Society starting with just the schoolhouse,
the Museum has been constantly expanding ever since.
This is thanks to the generosity of the local community
in donating buildings, artifacts, and historic documents
to the Museum. The Museum is proud to have the
newest Pembroke mural on the side of main building
entitled “The Pioneers of Pembroke Township”! This
mural was created in 2008 by artist Karole Marois. It adds to
Pembroke Heritage Murals large Mural collection.
New this year are Pembroke displays in the Founders
Hall and a permanent display of the Ottawa River
Heritage Series paintings by Canadian artist Ben
Babelowsky depicting different historical and
contemporary scenes along this historic river. |
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Hoch Farm Museum
2018 Ruby
Road,
Killaloe, Ontario
Queen
Street at Hwy 60
http://www.killaloe-hagarty-richards.ca/parks.html
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The Hoch Farm property
is Killaloe's only designated heritage facility; the
farm, which was set up in 1905, was deeded to the
township in 2000, and the Killaloe-Hagarty-Richards
Heritage and Ecology Society took charge of its
development shortly after, setting up a Saturday market
and eventually opening the farmhouse as a museum.
The museum consists the barn, the farmhouse museum, and
the grounds, such as the erection of murals (contributed
by local artist Caitlin MacDonald), the creation of an
environmental education centre, and the expansion of the
flower gardens begun by Amelia Hoch, the wife of the
farm's founder. |
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McDougall Mill Museum
65 Arthur
Avenue
Renfrew
www.renfrewmuseum.ca
Our museum holds three packed floors of artifacts, many
from Renfrew’s early Industrial days when the town was
home to: Renfrew Electric –maker of Canadian Beauty
Appliances, Renfrew Refrigerator Company –ice boxes,
Renfrew Machinery Acorn stoves, Renfrew Flour Mills and
the Renfrew Creamery.
The third floor houses a decorative military
display, Victorian clothing and a wedding dress gallery.
A doll collection, glass ware and hundreds of household
articles fill every corner of our second floor.
The first floor contains one of the most extensive
collections of farming equipment and pioneer tools in
Ontario, along with a few treasures for railway
enthusiasts. |
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Mission House Museum & Gallery
1050 Mill Street, Combermere, Ont
www.missionhousemuseum.com
Contact: C. David Lethbridge, Chair, Combermere Heritage
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Once the Rectory for the Anglican Parish
of Combermere, the Mission House Museum & Gallery opened
in the summer of 2005, featuring artifacts and
information about the sinking of The Mayflower, stern
paddleboat, on November 12, 1912, with the casket of one
deceased person acting as a means of floatation and
rescue for three passengers; information about former Combermere native John Wesley Dafoe, who became editor
of the Winnipeg Free Press; facts about the development
of Combermere's Madonna House; history of the Opeongo
and Peterson Road. The Museum also offers assistance in
genealogy searches. The Museum's Curator is Mr. David
Kelley, and the Museum operates under the authority of
The Combermere Heritage Society, a sub-committee
of the Township of Madawaska Valley. The Museum & Gallery
features a number of showings each summer, and will be
open to the public this summer from July to Labour Day
weekend, Wednesday to Friday 11a.m. to 3 p.m., and
Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. |
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Mississippi
Valley Textile Museum
Almonte,
Ontario
http://www.textilemuseum.mississippimills.com/
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The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum (MVTM) is located
in the annex of the former Rosamond
Woolen Company in Almonte, Ontario.
Constructed in 1867 this National
Historic Site of Canada now features
a fabulous blend of the old and new
all related to the history of the
Mississippi Valley and the textile
industry.
Exhibitions range from early mill history and period
mill equipment to cottage industry
and eclectic modern fibre art
exhibitions. This community museum
combines traditional static and
working displays of textile
equipment and processes with
activities and events focusing on
the region's heritage, culture and
role of the textile industry in the
development of Canada. |
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Weavers Unlimited May 5th - August 8th, 2010
This exhibition presents non-traditional approaches to handweaving
as in garments and wearable art. The participants were encouraged to stretch the
boundaries of handweaving by interpreting the theme ‘Weaving a Different View”.
Through exploration of structure, colour, non-traditional materials and complex
designs, weavers were challenged to be innovative and unconventional in their
textile interpretation of everyday life. This exhibition will also display the
process and design involved in weaving a different view. |
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Murray
L. Moore Hydro Museum
283 Pembroke Street
West, Pembroke, ON
(corner of Pembroke
Street West and Frank Nighbor Street)
www.orpowercorp.com (then follow the link to
the museum)
Monday
- Friday - 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Free Admission
For group tours,
please call 613.732.3687, ext. 28. |
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The Hydro
Museum takes you on a trip from 1884 when
the electric light was introduced to the
former Town of Pembroke, now a city, rich in
history of the development of progressive
utility programs. The Museum
officially opened in October 1984 to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the
first street light that was installed in
Pembroke. It is housed in the original
diesel room of the Pembroke Electric Light
Co. Ltd., complete with original light
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Pembroke
Legion Branch 72 Museum
The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch
72 Museum is
located at 202 Pembroke Street East on the second
floor (tower).
Pembroke,
Ont
http://www.pembrokelegionbr72.ca/br_72_museum.htm
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There are more than 30
sets of medals, uniforms and their accoutrements,
insignia, equipment, numerous photographs, various
newspapers (and clippings), publications, maps, and
many other acquisitions too numerous to mention.
These artifacts are
associated with many of the local men and women who
were involved in World War I, in World War II, in
the Korean War, in Peacekeeping, and in the Legion.
Some of the items
have been given to the Museum by the actual owners
and recipients while most have been donated by
family members and descendants in memory of their
loved ones. |
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The Petawawa Heritage Village
176 Civic Center Rd Petawawa
www.petawawaheritagevillage.com
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Petawawa Heritage Society
is approaching another
tourist season and things are falling into place. Beginning
June 01, 2009, we will open our doors to the public school
students of Renfrew county and offer a day trip to the
Heritage Village where they can discover life in a small
Upper Canada village and spend time at the SS#3 Black Bay
Schoolhouse 1893. We also offer the Molson Home 1910, St
John Lutheran Stable Circa 1800, Black Smith Shop circa 1800
and the CP Rail Station Circa 1800. Students will also get
the opportunity to use two tools that the settlers would
have used in their daily living.
Keep your eye
on the Petawawa Heritage Village where Historical Culture
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The Settlers Festival Days
Saturday, August 07 to Sunday,
August 14
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As the
cornerstone event of Heritage and
Culture Week in Petawawa, Aug 14th
9am – 4 pm the Petawawa Heritage
Village recreates the experience of
our early settlers with historical
re-enactments, displays, activities
for the children and fun and
discovery for the whole family.
Cost: Regular Petawawa Heritage
Village admission rates apply.
176 Civic Center Rd Petawawa
Funded by: Building Communities
Through Arts & Culture
We
are also open 10 am – 4 pm Monday to
Friday.
Cost is $5.00 Adults $3.00 Students
children under 5years Free.
Large tour group please contact
prior to attending 613-687-5054 |
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Annual Kashub Day Festival on
first Saturday in May.
The Kashubs have made Canada home
since 1858. Over the past decade, their descendants
have developed a Heritage Home at Wilno [Canada’s
First Polish Settlement] to commemorate and
celebrate their unique cultural heritage. The
Museum/Park/Skansen is a project of the Wilno
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The Museum was officially
opened in 2002 and now encompasses several heritage
buildings, including an old log farmhouse, is
located in a beautiful park setting, enhanced by
perennial flower beds and antique farm machinery,
all linked together with a paved path along which
family homestead stones are laid in tribute to the
original immigrant families. Outside displays focus
on original land settlement with fences of stones,
roots and rails. Three crosses pay homage to the
deep faith of the Polish Kashubian immigrants who
erected crosses at cross roads in the old homeland
tradition. Interior displays focus on the theme of
pioneer life in Canada’s first Polish Settlement
with an emphasis on what made the original Polish
Kashub immigrant families unique—their language,
customs, beliefs and their handmade furniture and
tools. Other displays describe the cultural heritage
of these first immigrants— remembering their roots
in Poland, with the traditional crafts of Kashubian
embroidery and ceramics as well as colourful
Kashubian and Polish costumes. Past leaders,
business people and prominent and influential
individuals in the Polish Kashub Community are
featured in a number of portraits and profiles. A
special permanent exhibit pays tribute to the young
men who fought for Poland in WWI.
The Museum also includes a Resource and Reference
Library as well as a gift shop with books, CDs,
DVDs, and souvenirs. Open daily in July and August
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no admission charge
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Ross Museum
2022 Foresters Falls Road
Foresters Falls ON
www.rossmuseum.ca
2010 Events
Ross Museum
Ross
Museum was established in 1995 and is operated by volunteers. New members are
welcome and are essential to continuing the preservation and collection of
history within the Whitewater Region. Ross Museum is the main focus of the
Whitewater Historical Society. The society was established in 1985 to promote
and preserve local history, and collections were in safe keeping until the
museum received the donation of the Ross House, a replica of an early 1800s
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2010 Activities and Events
There's something for everyone at Ross Museum. Come
to a world of history, fun, yarns, education and
antiques.
- June 19. Grand Opening. Presenting Honorary
Memberships at 3pm. Refreshments served.
- June 21, 6pm. 25th Anniversary Dinner Cruise.
Join us on an evening sunset dinner cruise from OWL
Rafting, Foresters Falls.
- July 1, 4-6pm. Canada Day Come and see our new
WHS float in the Canada Day parade starting at
4:30pm in Foresters Falls.
- July 17, 1-4pm. Pioneer Day. Enjoy an afternoon
immersed in the past at the museum. Witness 4-H
children square dancing, butter churning, spinning,
horse shoeing demonstration. Take a horse drawn
wagon tour with Keith & Ruby Bennett. Art
show/photography/sale by local artists in the Orange
Hall. Famous Home Baked Goods for sale in the
General Store! Food and refreshments available.
- July 23-25: Beachburg Fair - Watch for our float
in the parade honoring Beachburg’s 175th birthday.
- Aug 14, 1pm-4pm. Shanty Days. NEW Event! From
the log drive days - watch the men dance the ‘buck
set’ as they did in the camps. Listen to the fiddle
tunes and feast on beef stew, homemade baked beans,
homemade bread and raisin or apple pie. (Cost TBA)
- August 26-30 Cobden Fair - Watch for our float
in the parade.
- Dec 4, 7pm. Tree Lighting and Carol Sing at St.
Aidan’s Angican Church. Enjoy warm apple cider, hot
chocolate and cookies afterwards.
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Schoolhouse Museum
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The School House Museum
is owned and operated by the Rolph,
Buchanan, Wylie & McKay Historical Society.
It contains unique collections of
artifacts and photographs -some dating back
to the 1800s - illustrating the history of
the Municipality of Laurentian
Hills , formerly the
four townships of Rolph, Buchanan, Wylie, and
McKay in the Upper Ottawa Valley. Lumbering
is a major component but the Museum
encompasses many facets of local history
such as Hydro Electric and Nuclear Power
development, railroads, pioneer farming,
highway construction, life on and along the
Ottawa River and home life. Social
institutions, schools, churches, Scouting,
Women's Institutes, etc are represented. The
authentic Log House is fully furnished.
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Open July - August
Thursday-Monday
11 to 5
Open
June Weekends
11 to 5
Operated by The Rolph,
Buchanan, Wylie and McKay Historical Society
35753 Hwy. 17,
RR#1,
Deep River, Ontario,
Tel: (613) 584-2917
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Guided Tours
Wheelchair Access
Family Friendly
Open:
June, September and October
10am to 4pm
July and August
10am to 5pm |
Sebastopol Heritage and Historical Society (with
museum)
Now located at
Opeongo Park,
4716 Opeongo Road east of Foymount
Handicap accessible ... Contact
754-2555
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Zurakowski Park
Barry's Bay Ontario
We are a
heritage site right now, but are in the process of planning to build this year.
Our site is honouring long-time local resident and chief test pilot of the CF105
Avro Arrow, Janusz Zurakowski. We are also honouring all the planes he flew but
most notably the Arrow. |
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