Conservation/Preservation:
Archives
Online library of links to related digital archives, related literature, videos and related aerospace museums of Canada, historical information regarding aircraft built between 1945 and the mid-1960s in Canada.
Artefacts
Canadian aviation memorabilia pertinent to Canada’s aircraft industry from 1945 to the mid 1960’s.
Conservation/Preservation:
Artefacts
Artefacts are from the period 1830-40 and are generally domestic items that would be found in a household of this time period, such as kitchen items, tools, pottery and china. The Bradley House is arranged to reflect what a home would have looked like during this time period.
Public Programming:
Tours
Guided tours are offered to the general public and group tours can also be arranged. Tour guides and historic interpreters are in costume reflecting 19th century dress.
Other
Some of the programs offered to the public include cooking over an open hearth, spinning, weaving and historic crafts.
Conservation/Preservation:
Artefacts
- Rich original artefact collection, letters, photographs the Harris family ofBenares.
- Artefacts are from the WWI era (1916-1918) and are generally domestic items that would be found in a household of this time period, such as kitchen items, tools, pottery and china. There are also items donated by the Harris family dating as far back as the 1830’s.
Public Programming
Exhibitions
Changing and permanent exhibits are offered.
Tours
Guided tours are offered to the general public and group tours can also be arranged. Tour guides and historic interpreters are in costume reflecting 19th century dress.
Other
Some of the programs offered to the public include cooking over a wood stove from the time period.
Public Programming:
Exhibitions
Although not all exhibitions have a historical theme, a substantial portion are related to Canadian history, particularly Toronto’s history. Some past exhibits include, The St. Lawrence Ward: A Pictorial View of Toronto’s Oldest Neighbourhood, Dancing Through Time: Toronto’s Dance History from 1900-1980 and People and Places of Riverdale. A full list of current as well as past exhibits and their descriptions is available on their website. Exhibits change every 4-5 months.
Educational Programming
- Twelve different educational sessions can be arranged through the Market Gallery, which pertain to different disciplines in the Ontario curriculum, such as history. The subject of each session is listed online, as well as the appropriate grade level or audience for each particular session.
- General history presentations can be booked by seniors groups and community groups, with or without a Victorian Tea.
Online
A short description of the Market Gallery’s building can be found on their website, providing insight into its historical significance. The website also provides a history of the City of Toronto’s fine art collection and a searchable database of digitized images from it.
Conservation / Preservation:
Artefacts
- Over 400 audio tapes and 40 videotapes dating back to the late 1970s
- Documentation pertaining to psychiatric treatment
- Objects made by psychiatric survivors such as pottery, clothing, wood-work, stencilled imprints, key-chains, musical instruments, tools used to create objects, political buttons, banners and various forms of art and physical culture
- Posters dating back to the 1980s by people and groups involved in the psychiatric consumer/survivor community
- Photographic images of people, places and events related to the history of our community
Public Programming:
Online Programming
Descriptions and links to psychiatric related heritage sites are available on their website, such as the Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project, Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital, Whitby Psychiatric Hospital and the brick wall made by psychiatric inmates.
Conservation / Preservation:
Artefacts
The museum holds a diverse collection of objects reflecting the history of Oakville from its establishment to the present day, including costumes and textiles, fine and decorative arts, ethnological artefacts and Chisholm family-related materials.
Public Programming:
Exhibitions
Permanent and changing exhibitions. Permanent exhibitions include Freedom, Opportunity and Family: Oakville’s Black History and The Underground Railroad: Next Stop Freedom.
Tours
The Oakville Museum offers guided tours of the Chisholm family home.
Other
Throughout the year, museum staff present a series of mini exhibits coupled with conversational-style presentations to seniors’ residences in the community. Various themes are covered including oddities in the museum’s collections, an overview of Oakville’s history, vintage quilts and cocktail party gowns.
Conservation / Preservation:
Artefacts:
This museum houses more than 6 million artefacts and other objects documenting natural and human history from prehistoric times to the present.
Public Programming:
Exhibitions
The ROM offers a variety of changing and permanent exhibits. Explore an array of themed galleries throughout the museum, spanning the themes of world cultures, medieval history, Aboriginal history, natural history, Canadian history, science and technology, archaeology, and military history.
Tours
This museum offers many tours catering to a variety of age groups and educational level.
Digital
Online Virtual Exhibits including The Burgess Shale and Tuugaaq – Ivory.
Education
Lectures, courses, Trips/walks, traveling educational kits, online activities, family programming, school visits.
Conservation/Preservation:
Archives / Library
- Archival collections include Trafalgar County census records, newspapers, maps, letters, diaries, photographs, and ephemera documenting Oakville’s built history and community life since the mid-nineteenth century.
- The Reference Library contains over 1500 works dealing with arts and crafts, costumes, Oakville history, family histories and genealogies, municipal directories, cookbooks,Trafalgar Township and numerous others. A separate section includes aids to genealogical research.
- The R.W. (Bob) Davis Marine Library contains an extensive collection of works covering Canadian and world history and technical books related to ships and sailing.
Public Programming:
Exhibitions
- This society preserves the original home of the Merrick Thomas family. This home, built in 1829, is furnished and presented as a pioneer home of the 1830 – 1840’s, with many original family items. The Thomas House was moved to its present location in Lakeside Park in 1955
- The Society also preserves The Old Post Office. Oakville’s first post office (1835 to 1856) stands beside the Thomas House and is operated by the Oakville Museum.
Tours
Guided Tours of the Thomas House and First Post Office are offered, particularly during the summer months.
Digital
The Online Memories Project (found as a link on their website);
Conservation/Preservation:
Archives/Library
- The archival collection encompasses a range of materials relating to all aspects of Dufferin’s history. The collection includes more than 3000 archival documents, more than 500 local history books, and approximately 3000 photographs, as well as a wide range of reference books pertaining to Canadian antiques and artifacts, Canadian history, local authors, education, area churches, and community organizations.
- The archives also offers an extensive collection of municipal government information, such as by-laws, council minutes, and financial records, the earliest of which dates from 1851; information on such social organizations as the Loyal Orange Lodge, Masonic Lodge, and Women’s Institutes .
- Local History: A collection of over 500 works, including information on Dufferin and area towns, villages, churches, schools as well as many personal anecdotes of life in this region of Ontario.
- Museum Reference: The collection is accessible to researchers who are interested in finding and verifying information on Canadian, American and British antiques, Canadian glassware, antique furniture, costume jewellery and textiles.
- Canadian History: A selection of over 200 works, including texts of general interest in Canadian social, economic, and political history.
- Home & Health Advice: Includes some 200 works pertaining to Canadian agriculture, genealogy, cooking, maps, bibles, music and school textbooks.
- Family History: Two self-serve filing cabinets offer a number of family histories and research files.
- Cemetery Master Index and Transcriptions: Consult this master list available in the Archives.
- Microfilm: Census Records of Dufferin County records 1852 to 1901 are available
- Civil Registration Index from 1869 onward, various newspapers dating from 1861 including Orangeville Sun, Banner, Grand Valley Star & Vidette, Shelburne Economist, Free Press.
- Dufferin County Land Records to 1966, Municipal Records and many County Directories and Atlases are available.
Artefacts
- The first floor’s Large Artefact Storage Room is accessible to visitors. This area, which stores such items as wagons, sleighs, and furniture, allows visitors to view artefacts which are not currently on display in the DCMA’s exhibit galleries.
- The collections include archival documents and artefacts such as Canadian glass and ceramics (notably, Corn Flower cut glassware), furniture, wagons, machinery, agricultural implements, clothing, quilts, archival documents, and photographs.
- The museum’s hillside site features heritage gardens with a rich variety of plants, trees, and flowers, all of which were native to this region around 1900. The property also showcases samples of crop varieties traditionally harvested in DufferinCounty, as well as an apple orchard and an herb garden.
Public Programming:
Exhibitions
- Three heritage buildings are situated inside the DCMA’s main gallery; the Rich Hill Orange Lodge Building 1861, a pioneer log home 1850, and Crombie’s Station, a Toronto, Grey and Bruce train flagging station, 1882.
- Rich Hill Orange Lodge, constructed of tamarack logs in 1861, was originally located in AmaranthTownship.
- The McCutcheon Replica House at the DCMA is a one and one-half storey log home, constructed with logs dating from 1851. The interior of the house is appointed and furnished with artefacts from the DCMA Collection to reflect the period of the County of Dufferin’s incorporation in 1881.
- Also located on this site is the Historic Corbetton Methodist Church Building.
- The Reading Room also showcases changing displays in beautiful antique cases, formerly of Morrow’s Jewellery Store in Orangeville, ca. 1880.
Tours
Group visits must be booked in advance and admission is $20.00/person.
