Museum Talk: The Board Does the Work:" Domestic Industrialisation and Laundry Technology
We were joined by OTM's own Sarah Verreault this month to learn more about the shifting landscape of laundry and labour in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Many artifacts...
Museum Talk: Haunting Settled Ground: Haunted Heritage in Settler-Colonial Ontario
Watch on YouTube now! We were joined by Dr. Alicia Edwards-Boon this month to learn more about her research into the paranormal, place, and the settler imaginary.
Osgoode Township Museum Launches "Sign My Book!" Website
As the 2024 school year comes to an end, and students at Osgoode Township High School and St Mark High School collect signatures in their yearbooks, the Osgoode Township...
Museum Talk: Cooking the Backwoods Way: A culinary history talk
The recording of the Backwoods Kitchen by Holly Benison Museum Talk is now available on Youtube ! Holly presents some of her research on Canadian culinary history and settler...
Museum Talks: The Osgoode Jewish Cemetery
Watch this special talk about the history of the Osgoode Jewish Cemetery, presented by the Ottawa Jewish Archives .
Museum Talks: Not Diggin' It: How a local farm is shaking things up
In June of 2019, Jaymie Thurler and her partner Robbie bought a beaten up 150 year old homestead in the sleepy little town where they were both born. Neighbours have...
Museum Talks: Surveys, Swamps, & Scandals
Watch now on YouTube ! What type of trees originally grew in this area? Was it always this wet (spoiler alert – seems so!)? In 1822, a survey party set out to work in the...
Museum Talks: LGBTQ2+ farmers and homesteaders in rural Ontario
Where do queerness and farming intersect? Through archival research and interviews with contemporary farmers and homesteaders, this talk explores what queer agriculturalists...
Museum Talks: Farmerettes
Learn all about the young women who answered the call to work on farms in Ontario during World War II on YouTube ! Presenters Bonnie Sitter and Shirleyan English talk about...
Central Canada Exhibition Donates $10,000 to Osgoode Township Rural Museum
Jim Arbuckle, Past President of the Central Canada Exhibition Association, presents a cheque of $10,000 on behalf of the CCE to the Osgoode Township Museum on December 17,...
Museum Talks: German POWs in WWII Canada - The Metcalfe Project
Now on YouTube ! Did you know that during WWII, German POW camps were set up across Canada - including one in Hull, Quebec, referred to as Camp 32. The Metcalfe Project was a...
Museum Talks: Countryside Chronicles - The Latimer Diary
Watch now on YouTube ! More than a hundred years ago, Millie Latimer lived with her brother, his wife and their three sons on a 100 acre farm north of the village of...
BEE-autification Mural Project
Jumping for joy at the sight of our beautiful mural! Hats off to our AMAZING local youth, Artwork by Emilie and Osgoode Youth Association for coming together to create this...
Museum Talks: Arctic, Arsenic and Artifacts: In the Footsteps of Greely
Now available on YouTube ! Our local community of Greely, ON was very likely named in honour of the American explorer Adolphus Greely. He was the leader of a disastrous...
Interview with NHL Star Larry Robinson
Museum staff interview local legend and former NHL hockey player Larry Robinson! Mr. Robinson greets visitors into the museum, reminisces on personal stories of growing up in...
Museum Talks: Connecting with the Collection
This museum talk ( available on YouTube ) is about collections management at Osgoode Township Museum in Vernon, ON, Canada. We introduce our institution's site, collection...
RURAL OTTAWA BARN QUILT TRAIL
2021 Call for Barn Quilts - Rural Ottawa Barn Quilt Trail Barn quilts are large outdoor painted replicas of quilt blocks installed on barns. You can find them dotted along...