We're Looking For Old Tractors and Machines

The Backus-Page House is looking for tractor and machinery exhibitors for this year's Heritage Farm Show. If you've got an antique tractor come out Sept 3 and 4 to share your tractor with everyone at the show. Old engines or machinery are welcome as well (how old? old enough to be considered an antique). There's no cost to exhibit and participants are invited to a volunteer dinner on Saturday night. Call 519-762-3072 to let us know you'll be here. The show runs Saturday 10am to 4pm. On Sunday there's a pancake breakfast for the public from 9am to 11am, worship service at 11am and the show runs from noon to 4pm.

8th Annual Heritage Farm Show

8th Annual Heritage Farm Show

Labour Day Weekend

September 3rd and 4th

Backus Page-House Museum

29424 Lakeview Line,

Wallacetown, Ontario

Summer is winding down and it is time for the annual Heritage Farm Show at the Backus-Page House, located just south of Wallacetown. Demonstrations planned over the two day event feature threshing, a working steam engine, farm horses, wagon rides and historic farming interpretive displays. While on site, tour the Backus-Page House Museum where costumed interpreters will be available to take visitors on a trip back through time to the year 1850. The current exhibit titled “Saint Peter’s Anglican Church- Celebrating 184 Years”, runs until Thanksgiving Day. The exhibit allows visitors an opportunity to see rare items from the church that are not often made available for public viewing. With so much to do, it is easy to work up a big appetite. The Heritage Farm Show does not disappoint providing a BBQ lunch on both days along with a bean pot on Saturday. The Sunday pancake breakfast runs from 9 am to 11am. The worship service starts at 11 am on the lawn of the museum and the second day of the farm show activities begins at 12 noon.

Saturday- Heritage Farm Show runs 10am to 4pm.

Sunday – Pancake breakfast begins at 9am.Worship service begins at 11am.

Heritage Farm Show runs 12 noon to 4pm.

Admission- Adults $6, Children $3, 5 & under free

Pancake breakfast – additional cost- Adults $6, Children $3, 5 & under free

Please note that all patrons who enter the gate, regardless of their activities, including the pancake breakfast and worship service, are required to pay gate admission.

Living History Needs People

Check out this interesting article from the Edmonton Journal. Click here.

Barn Quilt Workshop

Barn Quilt Workshop 

Tuesday August 30th, 2011 

Wardsville Masonic Lodge 

21966 Hagerty Rd. 

10:00 – 2:00 

$15.00 per person 

Your day will include an escorted bus tour of the Wardsville Barn Quilt Trail, with a visit to Made on Earth to meet with Rick Sommers; an outdoor muralist who specializes in barn quilts. Upon our return to the Masonic Lodge we will enjoy a lunch followed by a presentation from Creative Communities on the “how to’s and best practices” of designing and installing a barn quilt! 

Please call or email to reserve your seat by Friday August 26th, 2011 to sheila@tourmiddlesex.ca 

519-245-8951 or toll free 1-855-245-8951 

Creative Communities

Tel  (519) 287-3566
Cel (519) 318-1074
Fax (519) 287-2241
Post: 22688 Tait's Road,  RR 4

Glencoe, ON  N0L 1M0

http://obqt.wordpress.com

www.ontariobarnquilttrails.ca/

skype: cre8vmarysimpson

http://wardsvillebarnquilts.wordpress.com/

Ruth Goodman at the Waterloo Region Museum in November

Coming this fall - Ruth Goodman


You may not recognize her name, but you likely have seen Ruth Goodman on
television stretching a pig's bladder to seal a preserve jar, chasing farm
animals from the garden, or cleaning a bedroom to rid it of bed bugs.
Goodman is a free lance historian working with museums, theatre, television and
educational organizations - and she has appeared in the British television
programs Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm, Victorian Farm Christmas,
Victorian Pharmacy and Edwardian Farm. Produced by Lion Television for the BBC,
these programs air in Ontario on TVOntario, and hopefully on PBS in your
community.

The Waterloo Wellington Museums and Galleries is hosting Goodman on the morning
of Saturday, November 5 for a public presentation at the Waterloo Region Museum.

Goodman will explore the Edwardian era for Britain's rural population, and all
the subtle changes that made it stand apart from the proceeding generations, as
well as those things that tied it firmly into an ongoing narrative.


Doors open at 8:30 a.m. for coffee, with Goodman's presentation starting at 9:30. Tickets are $25 plus HST and are available by calling the Waterloo Region Museum at 519-748-1914.

Ruth Goodman's presentation is generously sponsored by Waterloo Wellington Museums and Galleries, Waterloo Region Museum and the Region of Waterloo, TVOntario, and Hillcrest House Bed and Breakfast in Waterloo.

New Website Launches for the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812

New Website Launches 

for the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812

Hamilton, ON-August 12, 2011 - The Western Corridor War of 1812 Bicentennial Alliance

(WCA) has launched a new website for visitors to access information about events and initiatives

surrounding the Bicentennial for the War of 1812 in the Western Corridor of Southern Ontario.

The Bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812 has been identified as a key tourism

opportunity for the region, and the new WCA portal will allow new visitors to easily plan their

entire 1812 Bicentennial trip and educational experience from one central website.

The website www.westerncorridor1812.com

·

has an Events Database, searchable by location, time and type of event

·

shows a video highlighting the history and events of the war in this Region

·

provides timely updates on any 1812 news nationally and internationally

·

links to Partner’s sites so visitors learn about local initiatives marking the war

The site will also link to many other sites relating to the Bicentennial and the history of the war,

including the documentary Rural Raids and Divided Loyalties, a three part series telling of the

raids by American General McArthur in October of 1814. Visitors can follow McArthur’s path

by travelling along Route 1812. This historic driving trail highlights museums, historic sites and

battlefields involved in the War of 1812.

The story of the war in this region is one of courageous settlers and First Nations willing to stand

up and defend their homes from the invading force of American raiding parties and traitors as

they burned mills and stole supplies.

The WCA is a partnership of all the municipalities within the Western Corridor as it extends

from Halton Hills through Hamilton, Brantford and London, ending at Middlesex County, it also

includes the counties along the North shore of Lake Erie; Haldimand, Norfolk and Elgin. This

website was made possible by generous support from the Hamilton Halton Brant Regional

Tourism Organization and the Government of Ontario.

Media Contact

Adrienne Horne

WCA Regional Project Manager

adrienne.horne@hamilton.ca

For more information visitwww.westerncorridor1812.com

Dyeing Workshop at Backus-Page House Museum

Time	Saturday, September 17 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location	Backus-Page House Museum 29424 Lakeview Line, Wallacetown
Created By	Backus-Page House Museum
More Info	One of our fantastic volunteers, Carol, will be offering a FREE workshop to learn Dyeing. You must bring: large cooking pot (pot will not be useable for anything else except dyeing after this), washed wool (spun or fleece) 1lb of vegetable matter (mullen, onion skins, Queen Anne's Lace flower heads, marigold petals). All registrations and questions should be directed to Carol at 519-768-2976.