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Museums in the Ottawa Valley
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Ottawa Valley Museums
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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.
www.arnprior.ca
http://www.arnprior.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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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
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Events
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Antique Appraisal Day
May 30th
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Madawaska Valley Arts and Crafts Festival July 11
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Music in the Park - 6:30 - 8 Friday Evenings July
17, 24, 31 and Aug 14 & 21
Please also see
www.southof60.com for exhibition details
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85 Bonnechere
St., Eganville
613 628 1000
www.bonnechere.ca
Written in stone.
Carved in wood. Silvered in water.
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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
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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). 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.
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www.canclockmuseum.ca
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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 will be published later in 2009 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
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2009 Season
- Sun. June 28th Annual Strawberry Social
- Tuesdays and Thursdays in July and August
– Kids Days! – Please call to pre-register your
child.
- Thursdays, June - August, 7pm –
Multidenominational Summer Evensong Services in
Pioneer Church
- Wed. July 22nd – Box Social
- Sun. Aug. 9th - Heritage Blueberry Fest!
- Wed. Aug. 19th – Victorian Tea
- Sept. 26th and 27th Rural Ramble at
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
station.
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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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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
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283 Pembroke Street
West, Pembroke, ON
(corner of Pembroke
Street West and Frank Nighbor Street)
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 fixtures.
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The
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.
Mark these
events on your calendar!
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April 17-18-19 Show Case 2009 - Visit
us at our display. Register for your spot in our
golf tournament and see the great prizes you could take
home.
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July 2nd - August 28th
2009 - We will be open to the general public
from 9a.m.-4 p.m. Mon. to Fri.
Cost $3.00 Adults /Students
over 5 YRS. $2.00 call 613-687-5054 email
ann_@sympatico.ca
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June 7th
2009 - We will be hosting the 8th annual Golf
Tournament /Twin Rivers Golf Course for information
call Frank at 613-687-5863 or Faye 613-687-6733 or email
jim.morden@nrtco.net
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June
26th 2009 at 1:30 pm - We are hosting our
Appreciation Day and honoring the organizations
and the local merchants who have helped us reach our
goal to date. Everyone is welcome, at this time
we there will be 5 buildings open to the public. Call
613-687-5054 email
ann_@sympatico.ca
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July
25th 2009 - We will be hosting a County wide
Red Hat Tea. Call Catherine at 613-687-6142 or email
pwinb@hotmail.com
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14-15-16 2009 will be the first annual
Settlers Festival
to be held at the Village site. The cost will be $10.00
per family. The children will participate in games,
military drill, obstacle course, family scavenger hunt
and much more. The history of the area will be depicted
through re-enactors. Call 613-687-5054 email
ann_@sympatico.ca
Keep your eye
on the Petawawa Heritage Village where Historical Culture
comes alive.
Kellogg's & Canadian Museum Association Selects The
Petawawa Heritage Village
In the fall of 2008 Kellogg's being the leading brand of
breakfast cereal in Canada formed a partnership with the
Canadian Museum Association and announced an opportunity
for all museums, galleries, zoos and heritage sites across
Canada to participate in a national marketing campaign with
Kellogg's for 2009. The goal for Kellogg's is to align
their family of cereals with the social value of museums,
and family experience of shared time together.
As the first part of the promotion Kellogg's will list
selected museum on the web site. A contract with Kellogg's
has just been signed and the Petawawa Heritage Village looks
forward to seeing their site advertised on the Kellogg's web
page for 4 week period which has not yet been determined
for some time in 2009. Kellogg's will launch a national
media campaign highlighting museums as family destinations
for 2009. These will include TV Advertising for four weeks,
National promotion in grocery stores, on pack branding,
regional target print advertising in grocery
flyers. Additional selections for these will be made
throughout the coming year 2009, and you never know we maybe
one selected again. We feel very honored to have been
selected by Kellogg's to appear on their web page.
Ann McIntyre
President
Petawawa Heritage Society & Village
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1112 Wilno Road North, Wilno, ON 613-756-6937
www.wilno.org
Contact: Shirley Mask Connolly, Curator at
maskconn@magma.ca
Hours of operation:
- 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
during July & August
- weekends in June and
September to Thanksgiving.
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Special Events:
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
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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
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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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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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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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2009 EVENTS
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Annual
Strawberry Social: June 28 at the School House
Museum , noon to 2 PM, enjoy fresh strawberries and
cake and tea served under the towering pines by
Historical Society members. Admission Adults $6.00,
ten and under $3.00.
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FUN Day:26 July at the School House Museum, 12
noon to 4 PM, “Fun Day” is old fashioned,
volunteer-run fun, in the buildings and under the
tall pines of our beautiful grounds. There are races
and games for the children, demonstrations,
barbecue, baking contest, and auction, and “The Cow
Paddy Bingo”. “Cow Horn” delicacies similar to
Beaver Tails are sold at the kitchen window. There
is something for all ages. All Museum buildings are
open for browsing and should “Bessie” favor your
ticket you could win $400.00 in the the Cow Paddy
Contest.
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Lumberjack Supper: (Held in Chalk River Lions Hall)
25 October, 5.30 to 9 PM , an authentic Lumber
camp Supper is served by volunteers. Following the
meal the diners are entertained by local singers,
fiddle players and step dancers of all ages.
Admission Adults $20.00, ten and under $8.00
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The 1967 Centenary Project to reconstruct stone residence of the
Laird of McNab circa 1830. Includes other 19th
century heritage buildings and eleven gardens that have grown
from their inception as a millennium project in 2000.
http://mcnabbraeside.com/heritageandculture/museum.asp
Events:
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Renfrew County Museum Network meeting 12 May
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Plant Sale 16 May
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Heritage Tea & Fashion Show
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Antique Quilt & Braided Rug Raffle
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More McNab/Braeside Events:
23 June – 1 July has been
proclaimed McNab/Braeside’s official festival “McNab
Days”. June 23 2009 will be the 184th
anniversary of the first McNab settlers.
Saturday 27 June – Braeside
River Drive – As part of “McNab Days” a display of
heritage river craft used in logging, in recognition of
Braeside’s ties with Gilles Mill and the lumber
industry. Red Pine Bay on Usborne St. 11:00-2:00.
Barbeque, rope making, story telling, heritage costumes.
Saturday 8 August –
Victorian Tea. 4 sittings between 2 and 4:00. Period
costumes. At the Waba Cottage Museum, White Lake
Saturday 29 August – McNab/Braeside
Scottish Festival, a gathering of clans and celtic
culture that will include local family and community
displays, clan associations, crafts, dance and music.
11:00 – 4:00 at Waba Cottage Museum, White Lake. |
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Barry's Bay Ontario
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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
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www.zurakowskipark.ca
We
are in the process of erecting our building this year.
Contact John & Beth Hildebrandt
bhildebrandt@sympatico.ca
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Algonquins of Pikwakanagan Museum and
Heritage Centre - 1674 Mishomis Road, Golden Lake
www.atapik.com
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CFB Petawawa Military Museums - 63 Colborne Road,
CFB Petawawa
www.petawawamuseums.com
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Hoch Farm Museum -
Queen Street at Hwy 60, Killaloe
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Madonna House Pioneer Museum - 2887 Dafoe Road
on Highway 517, Combermere
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McDougall Mill Museum - 65 Arthur
Avenue, Renfrew
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Pembroke Legion Branch 72 Museum
- 202 Pembroke St. E. 2nd floor tower,
Pembroke
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Sebastopol Heritage and Historic Society (with
museum) - east of Foymount 4716 Opeongo Road
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42nd Field Regimental Museum (Lanark and Renfrew
Scottish) Royal Canadian Artillery - 177 Victoria
Street, Pembroke (old armory building)
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