Our decoration service will be held at the cemetery on Sunday September 18 at 2pm. Flowers are placed around the site by attendees who are also invited to share their thoughts and feelings about this commemoration of some long overlooked Black history. Descendants of Black Pioneers who are buried at the site are usually in attendance. Attendees are […]

Découvrez l’histoire et les anectodes entourant le patrimoine urbain du centre-ville de Mont-Laurier, de même que quelques-uns des citoyens qui l’ont habité au fil des ans. Les 12 points d’intérêt peuvent être consultés sur place, sous forme de circuit. Celui-ci débute devant les locaux actuels de la M.R.C. d’Antoine-Labelle, au 425 rue du Pont. Bon […]

Développée par la ville de Mont-Laurier en collaboration avec la Société d’histoire et de généalogie des Hautes-Laurentides et située au parc Toussaint-Lachapelle, l’exposition présente trois incendies qui ont marquées l’histoire de Mont-Laurier par leur destruction d’institutions phares : l’aréna de Mont-Laurier, l’hôtel Château Laurier et la cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière. Venez découvrir trois panneaux d’interprétation historique décrivant […]

Frontenac County Schools Museum has finished our new fashion history exhibit! From underwear to dress history to shoes and all sorts of accessories, we have a variety of artifacts to admire and lots of learning opportunities to offer. School and family photographs from our own collection detail the evolution of fashion from the mid 1800s […]

The Daly House Museum is pleased to present Brandon Heritage en Plein Air, an exhibition of works by celebrated landscape painter Weiming Zhao of Brandon ‘s historic landmarks. Weiming Zhao is a Brandon Manitoba based artist who has practiced plein air painting on a daily basis for 18 years. Instead of painting in a studio setting, Weiming […]

Eerie stories and haunted buildings, this ghost tour takes you for a spooky stroll through the Sharon National Historic Site. Still having resident spirits, ghostly activity here includes the sounds of a large feast being prepared, music, footsteps and more. Take a tour guided by our resident spirit catcher and experience the stories of the […]

Our historic buildings are open for tours! The Fry House is a two-story log dwelling built in c.1815 by Jacob Fry and Elizabeth Wismer, two of the early German-speaking Mennonite settlers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house has been staged with period-relevant objects and functions as a living history site. Built in 1859 to replace […]

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Holodomor Mobile Classroom will be on Glanmore’s grounds on Thursday, July 14th, Saturday, July 16th and Sunday, July 17th. The Holodomor National Awareness Tour is a project of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation and its three partners, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (at the University of Alberta), and the Ukrainian Canadian Research […]

Rain date: August 28, 2022 Teams of LoonWatchers will canoe an assigned lake to provide a simultaneous survey of loon presence and reproductive activity. Lakes are surveyed from 12 noon until 3 pm. LoonWatch observation forms will be collected at the Visitor Centre following the survey. A canoe and associated equipment must be supplied by […]