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Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre / Wishart Library - Sault Ste Marie
The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) at Algoma University, is a joint initiative with the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association. The history and activities...
The Friends of Algonquin Park - Whitney
The Algonquin Logging Museum is a major interpretive museum where the exhibits are along an easy 1.3 km loop trail which leads you through the story of Algonquin Park logging from...
St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre - St. Catharines
Experience the history of the City of St. Catharines at the St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre. From pre-contact to the present day, share the stories of those...
North Bay Museum - North Bay
Focusing on the late 1800s to 1960s, this community museum encompasses a wide range of subject matter, including social history as well as a good representation of working class...
Original Hockey Hall of Fame - Kingston
The world’s Original Hockey Hall of Fame (OHHOF) was founded in Kingston by the NHL in 1943 and the first forty inductees were honoured during the Kingston-era. The...
Dryden and District Museum - Dryden
Spanning 5,000 years of history, this community museum and cultural centre explores the history of the Dryden area. Displays in the main gallery change regularly. Our permanent...
Aurora Historical Society and Hillary House National Historic Site - Aurora
Built in 1862, Hillary House is recognized by the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board as one of Canada’s best examples of Gothic Revival architecture. It contains a...
MacLachlan Woodworking Museum - Kingston
In 1967, Sandy MacLachlan created the Woodworking Museum as a Centennial Project. To house the collection, he dismantled an 1853 log house, originally built by the White family in...
McDougall Cottage Historic Site - Cambridge
McDougall Cottage Historic Site (ca.1858) is a labourer’s dwelling house, built in a distinctively decorative pattern of hewn granite and limestone blocks. The Cottage is...
Wallaceburg and District Museum - Wallaceburg
The history of Wallaceburg from its beginning as the Baldoon settlement is explored at this community museum. Displays highlight local companies and their products including the...
Sault Ste. Marie Museum - Sault Ste. Marie
The Sault Ste. Marie Museum originally built between 1904 to 1906 as a Post Office, stands out with its distinctive clock tower. Its Ontario eclectic architecture is a combination...
Musée Sturgeon River House Museum - Sturgeon Falls
Situated on the site of a Hudson's Bay trading post which dates between 1848 and 1879, this museum displays pioneer artifacts from the region, a trapper's collection and...
Grimsby Museum - Grimsby
This community museum displays artifacts relating to the history of Grimsby and surrounding communities, from prehistory to the current day. The museum offers education programs,...
Centre franco-ontarien de folklore - Sudbury
The Franco-Ontarian folklore Center is a leader in the field of conservation and development of heritage. The work of its founder, Father Germain Lemieux, and the realization of...
The Canada Council Art Bank - Ottawa
The Âjagemô space at the Canada Council for the Arts features performances, events and exhibitions of contemporary Canadian art, including work from the collection of the ...
Gallery of Early Canadian Flight - Wiarton
Located in a cafe setting overlooking the tarmac and runways of Wiarton-Keppel Airport, The Gallery of Early Canadian Flight is a collection of archival photos, artist's prints,...
Timber Village Museum - Blind River
Timber Village Museum is located at the Marine Park, formerly the site of one of North America's largest white pine sawmills. TVM includes a Gift shop, Art Gallery, Museum,...
Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum - Port Colborne
Port Colborne Historical and Marine MuseumHistorical and marine artifacts from Port Colborne's past are on display at this community museum. The collection includes a...
Fairfield House and Park - Amherstview
This timber-framed farmhouse, built in 1793, preserves the building skills of the Loyalist settlers who had arrived in 1784. Guided tours take visitors from the...
Bruce Mines Museum - Bruce Mines
Pioneer artifacts from the local region are on display at this community museum, located in a historic church. Guided and costumed tours, school programs and demonstrations are...
Kingston Scout Museum - Kingston
Welcome to the Kingston Scout Museum! We are open by appointment - leave a message at: 613 329-3456 or through www.kingstonscoutmuseum.ca. Recognizing one hundred plus...
Workers History Museum - Ottawa
The Workers’ History Museum presents and promotes workers’ history, heritage and culture, and collects and preserves materials documenting contemporary labour issues in the City...
Hammond Museum of Radio - Guelph
The museum has the largest collection of antique radio and broadcast equipment in Canada. The collection spans the period of 1850 to 1950 and is located in a modern 4,000 square...
Stanhope Heritage Museum - Algonquin Highlands
This community museum is located in the original wood-frame Stanhope Council Chamber built in 1910. Exhibits and displays interpret the local history of the area including early...
Norwich and District Museum - Norwich
The rural history of Oxford County and Norwich Township, from the early-19th until the mid-20th century, is the focus of this community museum. The site features a large...
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area - Harrow
A visit to the John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area will take you back in time to the 1850s. The house and farm buildings of John and Amelia Park are restored to bring the...
Dundas Museum & Archives - Dundas
Informative, and fun! At the Dundas Museum & Archives, discover Dundas from the time of the glaciers’ slow carving of the valley through to today’s vibrant...
Backhouse Historic Site - Port Rowan
This heritage village is located on the site of an early farmstead within Backus Heritage Conservation Area. The site features 15 historic buildings, including the 1798 John C....
Dance Collection Danse - Toronto
Founded in 1986, Dance Collection Danse is Canada's national dance archives and publisher dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of Canadian dance history. Our...
Welland Historical Museum - Welland
This community museum features the history of Welland and the surrounding area, the building of the Welland canal and aqueduct, local industry and cultural diversity. The Just 4...
Scugog Shores Museum Village & Archives - Port Perry
The Scugog Shores Museum Village & Archives mission is to preserve, research, interpret and exhibit artifacts that illustrate the cultural and natural history of the Township...
Museum of Health Care at Kingston - Kingston
Diverse online and onsite exhibits illuminate Canada's fascinating healthcare history, and feature many of the nearly 40,000 artefacts in the Museum's collection - the...
Haldimand County Museum & Archives - Cayuga
The primary focus at this community museum is on the history of Haldimand County until approximately 1960. The site acts as archives for the County, with an emphasis on genealogy...
Chatham-Kent Museum - Chatham
For over 80 years, the Chatham-Kent Museum has been selectively acquiring artifacts of local and national significance. Through exhibitions, public programs, educational tours,...
RBWM Historical Society - Schoolhouse Museum - Deep River
The School House Museum is owned and operated by the Rolph, Buchanan, Wylie & McKay Historical Society. It contains a unique collections of artifacts and...
Station Gallery - Whitby
A vibrant, community arts and culture centre offering a variety of exhibitions and arts education programs.
Cloyne and District Historical Society - Cloyne
The Cloyne and District Historical Society is a not-for-profit, charitable, volunteer organization whose mandate is to preserve and record the history of the local area and to...
Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre - Toronto
Set in the scenic Don River Valley, Todmorden Mills Museum is a unique industrial settlement which tells the story of early industry in the City of Toronto. The present-day site...
Princess of Wales' Own Regiment Military Museum - Kingston
This military museum is dedicated to the Princess of Wales' Own Regiment (pwor) and its antecedents, from 1863. The museum focuses on three organizations of militias and on...
Mackenzie House - Toronto
This restored 1857 townhouse was the final home of William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto's first mayor and leader of the 1837 Rebellion. The site features a recreated 19th-century...
Fieldcote Memorial Park & Museum - Ancaster
Fieldcote is a cultural heritage centre with an emphasis on the collection, preservation and exhibition of local history, the promotion of fine arts and the celebration of natural...
Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery - Callander
“Why is there a barbershop in your museum?” ...because our museum started in a barbershop! In 1979 the town barber, Alex Dufresne, convinced the town council to...
Aurora Museum & Archives - Aurora
The Aurora Museum & Archives re-opened to the public on June 25th, 2015. Originally started by the Aurora Historical Society, the collection includes over 16,000...
Fort Erie Railway Museum - Fort Erie
Visit the two Railway Stations, the Steam Locomotive 6218, Caboose, and gift shop as you discover the history of rail travel in Fort Erie.Fort Erie Museum Services operates the...
Thorold and Beaverdams Historical Society Museum - Thorold
Documentation, photos, maps, artificats related to the history of Thorld/Beaverdams and the immediate area. The museum has a large collection of Thorold newspapers, as well as...
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc - Strathroy
Museum Strathroy-Caradoc is located in the heart of historic downtown Strathroy in a shared cultural facility with the Strathroy Public Library, located at 34 Frank Street,...
House of Commons - Curatorial Services - Ottawa
The House of Commons Heritage Collection features objects ranging from sculpture and furniture to official portraits and historical paintings. Most of the objects in this...