The Corran
The Corran, built in 1882, was the home of Alexander McNeill and his wife Hester McNeill; Irish aristocrats who moved to Canada in 1872. The mansion and estate that it …
The Corran, built in 1882, was the home of Alexander McNeill and his wife Hester McNeill; Irish aristocrats who moved to Canada in 1872. The mansion and estate that it …
Founding and Early Days The founding of the Committee for Women’s Concerns (CWC)—initially called the Committee for Women’s Studies (CWS)—in the 1970s was shaped by a series of social …
Found within the Krug Fonds are the Bruce Krug Local History Scrapbooks. The scrapbooks are a large collection of oral interviews, new clippings etc. as Bruce and Wilfred Krug tried …
Within the museum’s collection are over seventy wedding dresses and several wedding suits. The archival collection boasts much wedding related materials such as receipts for dress alterations, invitations, and wedding …
John Harnage Scougall is the most well-known photographer from Kincardine. Though Scougall had a great eye and captured much of everyday living in Kincardine, he was not a “professional” photographer, …
For almost two decades Bruce County was home to one of Canada’s once forgotten revolutionaries. Robert Sutherland was Canada’s first Black university graduate and first Black lawyer, who lived and …
Today photography is commonplace, plays an important role in how we interact with others via social media, and serves to preserve memories. With the rise and development of the “point …
Both during and between battles, trench life during the First World War was fraught with dangers such as bursting artillery shells and enemy snipers. Despite this, trench life was also …
The hardball team, known as the Southampton Fishermen was formed in the early 1930s, and played in the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association. In the midst of the Great Depression, sports …
Captain John Munro was born May 10, 1842 in Argyllshire Scotland, and was raised in Bruce Township, where his parents farmed. By 1881, he was sailing the Great Lakes and …