Callander Bay Heritage Museum & Alex Dufresne Gallery
107 Lansdowne Street East P0H 1H0 Callander, ON, Canada
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Locality: Callander, Ontario
Phone: +1 705-752-2282
Address: 107 Lansdowne Street East P0H 1H0 Callander, ON, Canada
Website: www.mycallander.ca/museum
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Installation is underway! Petit Noel opens this Saturday and will remain on display until December 19. There will not be a reception. We are open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10-5pm. Please wear your masks and stay home if you are feeling unwell.
102 years ago today the guns on the battlefields of the First World War fell silent. Today, we remember the brave men and women who served our country and the sacrifices they made, including the 134 who were from, or once lived in, Callander. Lest we forget.
"Posing for photographs was as much a part of our lives as the careful brushing of teeth, which was done as a habit twice a day. There was no end to the demand for Quintuplet pictures. Newspaper readers wanted to see the pictures which meant that the newspaper signed contracts to obtain them. The only source for pictures was NEA, which had signed contracts with the guardians. The result was that we celebrated every holiday from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve weeks in advanc...e, so that the photographs could be sent out in good time to NEA customers. We poked our heads through cardboard Valentine hearts, carved pumpkins for Halloween, clambered happily on the knee of a Santa Claus who looked surprisingly like Dr. Dafoe behind the whiskers." - pages 52-53 from We Were Five written by James Brough with Annette, Yvonne, Cécile, and Marie Dionne.
#ThrowbackThursday to when the RBC was once Morrison's General Store/Post Office! The following excerpt is from Don Clysdale's book (available for sale at the museum ): "Although there is no actual proof of this, it is widely believed that the view of the town and bay from Burford Hill reminded George Morrison, the first reeve of Callander, of his family home in Callander, Scotland. This is why, when he opened the first post office in June 1881, he named it the Callander Post Office. Due to an error, possibly by the postal administration in Ottawa, it was spelled the 'Calllender' post office until 1919."