Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives
26557 Civic Centre Road L4P3G1 Keswick, ON, Canada

Journalist, Duncan McCue, from the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation was featured in the Ontario Heritage Trust's publication "Heritage Matters". Mr. McCue's story describes his learning to speak Anishinaabemowin and connecting to his culture. This article appears in the Spring 2019 issue of Heritage Matters. It appears in this month's Ontario Heritage Trust's news, which features past interviews and articles from Indigenous voices in Heritage Matters. June is Nationa...l Indigenous History Month. http://online.fliphtml5.com/qnqes/gvhs/#p=10 You can follow Ontario Heritage Trust here: https://www.facebook.com/OntarioHeritageTrust/ and CBC Radio One's "Cross Country Checkup" (of which Duncan McCue is host) here: https://www.facebook.com/CBCCrossCountryCheckup

Have you taken up a hobby from a bygone era recently? https://www.nytimes.com//victorian-era-crafts-coronavirus.

Peek into the lives of this local globe-trotting family, the Tremayne’s of Sutton. The GPV has digitized these 1920s home movies! To familiarize yourself with this family, a Tremayne Family Group Sheet is included with this post. 1. https://youtu.be/b5pL3ztJPSM 2. https://youtu.be/kbOFXmeQMpI 3. https://youtu.be/Bh2RR12FCxU... Check in often at Recreation at Home on the Town of Georgina website to see all of the ways the Recreation and Culture Department is keeping you active and entertained! https://www.georgina.ca/getting-/recreation/recreation-home

Visit our YouTube Channel and check out our new videos entitled "What's Inside?". There are currently 8 'unboxing' videos to tempt your curiosity. Take a look at this first one. Be sure to check in often at Recreation at Home on the Town of Georgina website to see all of the ways the Recreation and Culture Department is keeping you active and entertained! https://youtu.be/mGmu4CTvP0c https://www.georgina.ca/getting-/recreation/recreation-home

Enjoy these at home activities. We have included our James Anderson colouring book, offered here for the first time! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2544356859002779&id=291327944305693

Browse the patent plans at the Archives of Ontario. The link below will tell you a little about them and how to access all that have been digitized by the Archives of Ontario. Follow the two links at the bottom of this post to take you directly to Georgina and North Gwillimbury. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/about/patent-plans.aspx Georgina: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/118013220/2/1\errors\img_advNo.htm... North Gwillimbury: http://ao.minisisinc.com/SCR/MWIMAIN.DLL/118013220//36549

EDIT: Updated April 22, here's the details for those FREE records! https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk//n/digital-downloads/ Keep your eye on The National Archives social media feeds. They are working on offering free access to their digitized collections. If you have ancestors from or in the UK, this is an excellent resource. Their website makes searching their digital collections easy, but many things were behind a pay wall. Great news! https://m.facebook.com//photos/a.47942/10158155824879640/

Paper theatres such as the pieces from one shown here was a wholesome recreational pastime appealing to both adults and children. It was most popular in the early-to-mid 19th century, becoming less popular after 1900. Toy theatres were only affordable to middle-and-upper class children, as they retailed for a penny for uncolored sets and characters, and two-pence colored. The characters and scenes are from a melodramatic play entitled The Miller and His Men, a play written b...y Isaac Pocock(1782 1835) and performed at Covent Garden in 1813. This particular toy theater version is said to have originated with the Mossington family of Jackson's Point and may date to the late 1820s. It was donated to the GPV&A in 1974. There are many printable versions and instructions to making your own toy theatre, online. Below is a link to one available from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Below that is a link to a performance of the final act of The Miller and His Men. These can be made as simply or complex as you like. Perhaps you can create a future family heirloom and tradition. Enjoy! http://www.vam.ac.uk//articles/m/make-your-own-toy-theatre/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FPOGgxa70

Happy news for those of you would would like to research our family history with Ancestry Library Edition, from the comfort of your own home. The Georgina Public Library is now able to offer it to those of us with a library card! Don't have one? You can get them online now!

Why not catalogue your history book collection while you are social distancing? It's also interesting to browse other people's libraries and see what's out there.

Join the GHS tonight for the March general meeting- 7pm at Sutton Kin Hall. Everyone is welcome. Speaker: Sally Krigstin talks about trees, wood and culture. Come at 6:30 for refreshments and chit-chat.

Current opportunities at GPV- these are seasonal positions: Summer Experience Guide, Summer Programming Assistant, Summer Collections Assistant https://www.georgina.ca/municipal-g//current-opportunities

GHS March General Meeting cancelled

A CONTEMPTIBLE TRICK Played Upon a Party of Lady Campers by a Gang of Rowdies, Special to the Mail. Keswick, Ont., Aug. 31.- Last night after ten o'clock a party of men visited Ferguson's Point, Lake Simcoe, where there are several camping parties, and committed mean depredations. Mrs. T. Botsford has a marquee on the Point in what is known as "Rachel's Dell." She and her friends, about twelve in number, had been away at Snake Island during the day on a fishing excursion. Th...ey returned about nine o'clock, and as the weather was threatening they left the tent and took up their quarters in an old deserted house on the extreme end of the Point. During the night a boat load of men was seen to land at the point, and shortly afterwards it was found that the ropes of Mrs. Botsford's tent had been cut, the canvas slashed,the cooking utensils destroyed, and everything wrecked. The men also visited the house, where they tied the door, and then dared the inmates to come out and tackle them. This morning the matter was reported to the authorities at Keswick, and it is likely that several arrests will result. Toronto Daily Mail 02 September 1882; page 4