EVENTS
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The Middleville and District Museum is excited to announce that the Perth and District Community Foundation has once again provided grant money to the Museum to support educational programs for the community and visitors for the 2024 season. The grant has helped fund workshops on basket making, heritage plants and preserving photographs. A special event featured the Hopetown Telephone Company. |
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SEPTEMBER 2024
William Wilson and his sister, Margaret, were both Home Children
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The Middleville & District Museum will hold its third annual British Home Child Recognition Day on Saturday, September 28th, 2024 (Canadian national recognition date). BHC descendants and visitors are invited to attend this event to share information and learn more about British Home Children and their personal stories.
An exhibit featuring local children who were brought to Canada from Britain in the mid 1800's to early 1900's will be on display at the Museum on National British Home Child Day on September 28th, 2024.
Museum volunteers have researched the life stories of local Home Children. The exhibit will include information discovered about where they were born, how they got to Canada, where they lived here, where they went to school, friends they had and how their lives unfolded as they grew up.
Plan to join the Museum in recognizing the lives of these children. Light refreshments will be served.
Reginald Bowden (1907-1996)
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L - R: Davie Bowden (son), Curator, Alice Borrowman, Aaron Bowden (Grandson) and Harrison Bowden (Great Grandson) in front, holding medallion
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Three Generations of the Bowden Family Visit the Middleville and District Museum
Reginald Bowden (1907-1996) of Darling Township was a Home Child sent from Britain to Canada in 1920. Members of Reginald’s family including Davie (son), Aaron (Grandson) and Harrison (Great Grandson) were on hand at the Museum to plant sunflowers on Saturday, May 25th. The sunflowers are a symbol of resiliency and are planted along the Museum’s end wall in recognition of the British Home children who were brought to this area between the mid 1800’s and 1900’s. Curator, Alice Borrowman, accepted an official British Home Child flag and a Home Child medallion donated to the Museum by the Bowden family.
Find out more about British Home Children at: https://canadianbritishhomechildren.weebly.com/
October 2024
Apple Cider & Scarecrow Day
Sunday, October 6th, 2024
Noon - 4 pm
Pressing apples in the vintage apple cider press
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Family fun with scarecrows
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Join in the fun and try your hand at pressing apples with the Museum's vintage apple cider press. Enjoy some apple treats and cider.
There's family fun for everyone with scarecrow crafts and stories.
Return of Heritage Weaver, Layne Sharpe
Heritage Weaver, Layne Sharpe will be returning to the Museum to weave for two more days. Layne will be weaving at the Museum on Saturday, October 12th and Sunday, October 13th.
Heritage Weaver, Layne Sharpe working on the Museum's barn frame loom.
NOVEMBER 2024
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Sunday, November 10th, 2024
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Bundle up and join in the fun of decorating gingerbread cookies and posing for a family Christmas photo in the ruby red, vintage cutter. The Museum's schoolhouse door will be decked out in Victorian style for more photo opportunities. Make an ornament and enjoy some hot chocolate or apple cider with a sweet treat, too. Be sure to catch storytime in the cabin and decorate a gingerbread cookie. Don't forget to pick up a treat and a small item from the take-home table as you leave.
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