Clean Up Day Volunteers Needed

Owl Seen along the Wetlands Trail

Thanks to Elaine Howard for sharing photos of an owl she saw in the pine plantation along the Storey Wetlands Trail on March 29, 2019.  What animals, birds or other creatures have you seen lately?

Half Way to Goal of 150!

This is so exciting!  We currently have 76 members of Tyrconnell Heritage Society.  In 2019 our goal is 150 so we are just over half way there.  Can we count on you to be one of our 150 members?  We want YOU to support your local museum by purchasing a membership.   Forms are at the link below. 

http://backuspagehouse.ca/membership/

Here are some current and past members of the society supporting Backus-Page House Museum.

Activities for PA Day April 5, 2019

Tickets Available for Easter Dinner and Paranormal Adventure

We have tickets available now for 2 upcoming events in April at Backus-Page House Museum.  Just click on the link to go to Eventbrite and purchase tickets before we are sold out. 

Easter Dinner Tickets

Paranormal Adventure Tickets

Join Us for Seedy Saturday at the St. Thomas Library

Backus-Page House Museum will be there with a display about Colonel Talbot the gardener.  

Making History Contagious 2019 History Symposium

2019 History Symposium

Making History Contagious: Deconstructing the Past

March 23rd, 2019 Central Library, London, ON

www.historysymposium.com

Keynote:

Ted Barris: Dambusters: Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi

Seminars: For further topic and speaker information, other activites, timings and, especially,

registration, please visit: http://www.historysymposium.com/

Zenon Andrusyszyn: Documenting the Carvings Left by WWI Soldiers
Larry Barnard: Close Quarter Enemies: Dealing with Vermin in the WWI Trenches
Betsy Bayshore: Women’s Attire in the US and Canada, 1800-1818
David Blain, Robert Norton & Robert Sacco: An Overview of the Roman Imperial Army
Jeff Brown: First World War Fashion Show
Tim Compeau: “A New Batch of Ships”: British Experiments in Naval Technology and Challenges of
Frontier Warfare inCanada, 1812-1815
Mark Dickerson: You Want the Tooth? You Can’t Handle the Tooth!
Yvonne Drebert: Exploring our Stories Through Film: The Bruce
Rosalyn Elm: The Longhouse and the Chapel: Reclaiming our Spiritual Birthright Between the Tension of
History and Reality
Steve Hartwick: The Pursuit of Mons: A Modern Cavalryman’s Journey Down a Hundred Year Old
Corridor
Patrick Kinghan: Impressions of History: Reenactment and Teaching the Past
Jordan Kipp: Keep the Powder Burning: Reloading and Maintenance of Antique and Vintage Firearms
Tracy Macdonnell: A Passing Obsession: The British Fife and Buttrey Manuscript
Al McGregor Can History Pay?
Susan Smart: Death and Burial in 19th Century Ontario
Susan Spencer: Period Hand Stitchery Secrets
Georgiana Stanciu: The Story Behind the Royal Canadian Regiment Museum: a “museum room” at the
Infantry School Corps Building in London, Ontario
Glenn Stott: Last Invasion: McArthur’s Raid
Lynne Stott: A Quilting Workshop
George Wells: The Enemy in Your Pants
Barbara Whelan Of Warp and Weft: A Timeline of Fabric Production