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 …
People
Committee for Women’s Concerns
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 …
Walter Gray and the Klondike Gold Rush
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 …
Wedding Dresses & Wedding Photos
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 …
Kincardine’s Photographers
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, …
Robert Sutherland
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 …
Photographic Media
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 …
Trench Art
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 Southampton Fishermen
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 & the Azov
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 …
