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Museum MessengerGoulbourn Museum’s Seasonal Newsletter Volume 10, Issue 3
In This IssueLetter from the Curator-Manager
From the CollectionRecent Events
Coming Events
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The Goulbourn Museum gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Service Canada & the Department of Canadian Heritage.
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Old-Fashioned Christmas:Artisan Market & Free Family FunSave the date! On Sunday, November 30 the Goulbourn Museum will be hosting its Old-Fashioned Christmas & Outdoor Artisan Market from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
This annual event features a vendor tent full of great holi-day shopping opportunities. Artisans will be selling every-thing from handmade pottery, soaps, jewelry and knit wear, to decadent chocolate truffles and baked goods.
Free family activities will include a station where children can write letters to Santa with expert help from the Calligraphy Society of Ottawa, and vintage rope making demonstrations by Tom Stephenson of the Kettle Boys. Each child will get their very own handmade skipping rope! Children can also have their photo taken with Santa, roast marshmallows by the fire, and enjoy free hot chocolate and hot apple cider compliments of the Walmart Kanata South Supercentre. Pizza All’Antica will also be onsite making authentic Neapolitan wood fired pizza.
We have several volunteer positions and sponsorship opportunities available for this event. If you would like to help, please give us a call at 613-831-2393 or email:[email protected]
The image harkens back to winters of yesteryear: a pair of simple black leather ice skates and a skating lantern. It recalls a time before indoor rinks, when skat-ing on frozen ponds was a common and favourite pastime. This scene graces the Museum’s fundraising Christmas cards which are being sold in packages
Fundraiser: Buy a Christmas Card and Support the Museum!
This was the scene inside the vendor tent at last year’s Outdoor Artisan
Market (above). And, once again this year,
children can have a vintage photo taken with
Santa (right). Last year’s Old-Fashioned Christmas drew over 400 visitors of
all ages to the Museum.
of 10 for $12.
The cards are available for purchase from the Museum’s gift shop. All of the pro-ceeds will contribute towards improving our exhibitions and programs, as well as caring for our collection and sharing the distinct history of the former Goulbourn Township.
Message inside reads: “Happy Holidays”.
Recent Musings: Letter from the Curator-Manager
Kathryn JamiesonThis year both the Stittsville District Lions Club and the Richmond District Lions Club are celebrating a milestone 50th Anniversary of Charter members, and we are pleased to exhibit a collection of memorabilia from each club. The club charters, along with photographs, newspaper clippings, vests, costumes and a vast array
of pins from Lions Clubs across Canada and abroad will be on display at the Museum until November 16. The Lions’ motto is “We Serve”, and the two groups have certainly done a lot for the Goulbourn communities since 1964. Please stop by and see what the clubs have been up to.
You may have noticed an extra pair of helping hands at the Museum recently. We are proud to announce that the City of Ottawa has provided funding through the Pilot Program for Youth Training Initiatives in Culture to allow us to hire Stephanie Miles as a Collections Intern this fall. Stephanie will be working alongside Sarah Holla and myself to carefully record every detail about the artefacts in our collection, including descriptions, materials, measurements, and makers, to name a few. Stephanie is a long-time volunteer at the Museum, a graduate of the Applied Museum Studies program at Algonquin College, and has worked short contracts with us in the past. We’re thrilled to welcome Stephanie back and look forward to working with her.
As we are planning for 2015, I would like to take a moment and reflect on a generous donation we received this year. In July, a direct descendant of Colonel Burke entrusted the Museum with his 1822 militia sword. She wrote “I wish to share this artefact with the Museum so that others will have an opportunity to see it... I cherish the many literary efforts that have kept his memory alive.” We’ll be sharing more about this story in the coming months, so please watch for a letter in your mailbox.
I look forward to seeing you soon.
Kathryn JamiesonOctober 2014
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Wish List:Can you Help by Donating Gently Used Items?
As a Registered Charity, we rely on the generous support of our community.
Support can come in many forms: attending our events; volunteering time; and, of course, financial donations.
But you can also support the Museum by donating a Wish List item. These are items we
need to make our exhibitions and programs even better.
Currently we are in need of:
• Yarn or knitted 8 x 24 inch rectangles
• Fabric (approx 1 x 3 ft. pieces) in bright colours & patterns
• White outdoor LED string lights
• Old fashioned style clothing & hats from the 1800-1940s era for costumes
• Canadian Tire money
Call 613-831-2393 to help.
Thank you!
From the CollectionMuseum Highlights: From our staff
Education & Community Programmer
Tracey DonaldsonOur ever popular Village Store is getting an update!
This much loved exhibition has experienced some
wear and tear over the last couple of years and
needs a little tender love and care (TLC). By the end of November
everything will be finished and people can expect to see new artefacts,
games, dress up clothes and much more. Be sure to visit the Museum
and check it out!
Marketing & Visitor Services
Sue WoodfordHighlights from our brand new Homegrown Heroes
exhibit will be on display at the Stittsville Library
throughout the month of November. The exhibit
examines the World Wars beyond the trenches, showcasing personal
accounts of how conflict affected life in Goulbourn Township. Local
stories extracted from the Voices from Goulbourn’s Past series, coupled
with wartime propaganda and artefacts, paint a picture of what life
was like on the home front. This traveling exhibit will be at the library
until November 28th but the full Homegrown Heroes exhibition is on
display at Goulbourn Museum until April 2015.
Curatorial Assistant
Sarah HollaWe’re on a mission to “Yarn Bomb” Goulbourn Museum and you are all invited! New to yarn bombing? This movement celebrates fibre arts and handcrafts through colourful yarn installations
in public places. Our target has been set on the railings outside of the Museum and we need your help to create knit or crocheted swatches for this project. You can get involved by creating colourful 8” x 24” knit or crocheted rectangles, donating extra yarn from your stash, spreading the word about our yarn bomb, and by joining the installation of our fibre creation on November 16th from 1-3 p.m. Our cozy work of art will be unveiled at the Museum’s Old-Fashioned Christmas & Outdoor Artisan Market on November 30th.
This broad axe, among other examples of woodworking tools from the collection, was used to fell trees and shape the landscape of early Goulbourn. Those members of the 100th Regiment of Foot who settled Goul-bourn Township in 1818 would have cleared large forested areas by hand in order to prepare the land for building and farming.
With the holidays approaching the axe also recalls the importance of the Christmas tree in festive celebrations. Although the tradi-tion of decorating the home with ever-greens was well established, it wasn’t until the early 19th Century that decorating a tree became popular.
The concept of the Christmas tree originated in Germany, but it was Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert of Germany that made the custom widespread. Originally decorated with cards, wax candles, candies and fruits; Christmas trees have evolved to include a variety of store-bought ornaments, garlands and strings of electric lights.
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Coming EventsRecent Events
Ready. Aim. Fire! The castle was under pompom attack as royal cuties fired their catapults to save the princess at our Medieval Quest Family Craft Day in October.
Get a Clue! Fifteen teams recently competed in an epic scavenger hunt around the City. Teams to correctly determine that Goulbourn Museum is the home of the 100th Regiment of Foot took their photo in our 1812 inspired head in the hole.
Register by calling 613-831-2393 or email: [email protected]
Richmond Fair Tracey tells school children about the vital role agriculture played in both world wars and the importance of rationing. War posters reinforce the lesson. Goulbourn Museum’s
Family Craft Days - 2015 ScheduleJanuary 25: G’Day Goulbourn March 29: Giggles & Gags April 26: Go Big or Go GnomeMay 24: Clang, Clang, Rattle Bing Bang! June 28: Jurassic Rocks!July 19: Teddy Bear PicnicAugust 16: Shiver me Timbers!September 13: Pumpkin SpiceOctober 4: Muggles, Magic & Mischief November 29: Deck the Halls
Family Craft Days run from 1-4 p.m. and are geared to children ages 4-11. Cost is $4 per child. Parental accompaniment & registration is required.
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