Tourism Week

 

 

 

 

This week is Tourism Week all across Ontario until June 16th!

Come on out to the Backus-Page House Museum for a tour of the house and a peaceful walk through the beautiful John E. Pearce Provincial Park!

Tourism Week June 10th - June 16th

 

Next week is Tourism Week in all of Ontario! Get out and about and visit some of your local attractions! 

 It is tourism week in all of Ontario from June 10th until June 16th helping to launch our summer season! Head out and visit some of your local attractions in the surrounding area! There is so many things to do in Elgin County - touring Lavender Sense, the Arts and Cookery Bank, the Southwester...n Ontario Barn Quilt Trail, pitstop at Empire Vallery or Erie Gardens for locally grown vegetables and flowers, walk the park at John E. Pearce Provincial Park, golf a game at Dutton Meadows Golf Club, stop and have a bite to eat at any of our local area restaurants. Also Mickey's Diner Car Show is the Saturday of Tourism Week on June 15th at the Rodney Recreation Centre and the Shedden Tractor Pull is being held at the Shedden Fair Grounds on June 14th, 15th and 16th!

At Backus-Page House Museum we are open weekly Tuesday-Friday 10-4:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-4:30pm. Come on out during Tourism Week and have a tour of the museum, our summer exhibit "Accounts of a Hard Days Work," and see an exhibit of Jo-Anne Page Cote's paintings displayed throughout the museum. Visitors to the museum during Tourism Week will be entered into our draw for a 2013 War of 1812 Calendar. The draw will be held at the end of Tourism Week on June 16th.



Raffle Tickets Avaliable

for the

Backus-Page House Museum Fundraiser

Tickets are $5.00 and are avaliable at the museum gift shop

May 10-July 31, 2013

Golden Moment
Framed Print by Jo-Anne Page Cote

May 25th Great Grandma's Roses

On May 25th, 2013 the Backus-Page House Museum will be hosting a workshop: Great Grandma's Roses. Guest speaker Harry McGee from William Saunders Rose Society will be talking all about heritage roses. The event starts at 2:00pm and tickets are $5 in advance and $6 at the door with limited seating. The afternoon will also include complimentary coffee, tea and lemonade. For more information or to purchase a ticket for the event call 519-762-3072 or email us at info@backuspagehouse.ca

Dec. 1, 2012 Christmas Dinner

The annual Christmas Feast in the Backus-Page House Museum was held December 1, with 15 people enjoying a fantastic meal.  Carollers from Treble Makers Choir, trumpeters and singers from West Elgin Secondary School, and Jeff Booth as Colonel McQueen stopped by to entertain during the evening.  President, Patrick Mooney and Board Director, Susan Chapman-Reinke hosted our guests as Andrew and Mary Jane Backus. 

One favourite course was the Mullagawtawnay Soup (recipe below).  Applause is due our cooks and assistants, Carol Mooney, Ken Reinke, and John and Norah Bennetto.  This dinner could not have run smoothly without servers Natascha B-Mooney, Amy Shaw, Hannah Miles, Kelsey Fratcher and our dishwashers Zack Vandenberk, Emily Joicus, and Fred and Cheryl Miles.  Tickets for December 7, 2013 go on sale in January at info@backuspagehouse.ca

or 519-762-3072

MULLAGAWTAWNAY SOUP

Cut four onions, one carrot, two turnips and one head of celery into three quarts of liquor in which one or two fowls have been boiled; keep it over a brisk fire till it boils, then place it on a corner of the fire and let it simmer twenty minutes.  Add one tablespoon of currie powder and one tablespoon of flour; mix the whole well together and let it boil three minutes; pass it through a colander.  Serve with pieces of roast chicken in it.  Add boiled rice in a separate dish.  It must be of good yellow color and not too thick.  Half veal and half chicken will answer. 

Home for Christmas Event

Home for Christmas Shopping Event

From November 23 to December 7, be sure to enter draws at participating businesses in West Elgin and Dutton-Dunwich as part of the annual Home for Christmas promotion. There are over 60 draws this year! There is a wide variety of really great prizes to be won from our local retailers.

How will you know who is participating? Simply look for a special Home for Christmas bow and the “Participating Business” poster in their window or on their door. Once inside and while you are shopping, you will also find a list displayed of all 55 businesses involved in this year’s event. Staff at each participating location will happily tell you about their particular draw prize or prizes, and how to enter to win. Enter as often as you wish during the two-week event to increase your chances of winning. Event closes December 7; draws to be held on Monday, December 10, draws in each participating location. Winners will be notified shortly thereafter by the business whose draw prize they have won.

BACKUS-PAGE HOUSE MUSEUM
Decorated for the holidays and open for tours Nov. 23-30 and Dec. 3-7  10am-4:30pm
Local businesses, gift shop, refreshments, and door prizes in the Carriage House Office. 

http://www.eventselgin.ca/home-for-christmas.html For participating locations.

– Karen Kendrick
Coordinator
2012 Home for Christmas Shopping event
ShopWesternElgin@yahoo.ca

Fall Update!

Backus-Page House is now closed up for the season, but we'd like to share with you what we've been up to for the past few months!

Our Annual Heritage Farm Show was a success! Check out the photos below by Linda Pollock:

Check out more photos on our facebook page.

We've also hosted a few weddings, here are some photos of our favourite decorations:

If you're interested in having an event at Backus-Page House, please call us at 519-762-3072.

We will resume regular hours in May, until then feel free to call and book an appointment to see the house!