Pickering Township Historical Society
PO BOX 66053 Town Centre L1V6P7 Pickering, ON, Canada

Hear the incredible story of Dr. Max Eisen, Holocaust survivor, and author of By Chance Alone. Register for this impactful presentation: https://bit.ly/38ZjCPn

Attention #genealogists! You now can access Township Papers from the 1780s-1870s for free on FamilySearch's website. They include copies of orders-in-council, l...ocation certificates and other records related to specific properties in Ontario. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results Example of a Fiat (issued by the Office of the Registrar General when land was granted) in Township Papers, Barton Township, December 7, 1802 (RG 1-58)

Happy Holidays Image: Courtesy of the Pickering Public Library https://corporate.pickering.ca/PLHCWebLink/Welcome.aspx

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This week! Register for a free online event with Oshawa Museum. Who does not love a good post card :) Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wish-you-were-here-selections-f ~Alarna

This week! Register for a free online event with Oshawa Museum. Who does not love a good post card :) Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wish-you-were-here-selections-f ~Alarna

Check out what the Pickering Museum Village has been up to :)

Free online event about Tom Thomson :) https://www.facebook.com/events/620235465549611/

Here's an outdoor class at High Park Forest School in 1918. It was one of two "forest schools" in Toronto, started because fresh air was believed to promote goo...d health and reduce risk of tuberculosis. The school term ran from May to October. Here's how the setting was described in The Globe and Mail (July 7, 1922): "the roof is the vivid blue of Heaven, glimpsed through the lacy foliage of birch and pine, and on three sides stretch glorious vistas of the forest primeval, where the black squirrel disports himself and the fat groundhog sits at his doorstep preening his fur coat." Learn more from City of Toronto Archives: http://ow.ly/KyRh50BaDpK Two images of High Park Forest School in our Digital Archive: http://ow.ly/3kPm50BaDpL

Phan Th Kim Phúc was a speaker at the Pickering Historical Society. Its was a night we will never forget. Thank you to Phan Th Kim Phúc and to everyone who worked to make that night happen.

Free online event about Tom Thomson :) https://www.facebook.com/events/620235465549611/

Monday at 2:00 PM online :)

Caption this! Share your thoughts on these archival images of bridges in Pickering. Participate now in our community curated exhibit "Reflections on Water". Vie...w our album by clicking this link and adding your caption. https://www.facebook.com/pg/pickeringmuse/photos/?tab=album&album_id=3438157976202796 See more

Caption this! What is the first word you think of for these images? Share your "Reflections on Water" with us. View our album by clicking this link and adding your caption. https://www.facebook.com/pg/pickeringmuse/photos/?tab=album&album_id=3438157976202796

There is a new, local, online, virtual museum, 'Oshawa’s Automotive Community'! Enjoy this great online resource created by The Canadian Automotive Museum available in both French and English :) For more than a century, Oshawa has been the largest builder of motor vehicles in Canada. Explore the eventful history of this automotive city, as experienced by generations of auto workers and their families. http://www.virtualmuseum.ca//exhibit/oshawas-automotive-c/

We are compiling a brief history of the GM Oshawa truck plant and need help creating a list of the makes and models of trucks (pickups and full size) built in Oshawa over the years. Send us an email at [email protected] if you can help. Thank you!

Explore our first virtual exhibit "Spy in the Sky, The Story of Pickering’s WW1 Pilot Milton N. Pegg": http://ow.ly/sV8h50zEWoo. Learn about the experiences of ...Milton N. Pegg as a pilot in the First World War. Maps, photographs and artifacts illustrate his amazing journey with the Royal Flying Corp. This exhibit was originally displayed at the Museum in 2015. #museumfromhome #virtualpmv #stayhomemakememories *** We're currently navigating challenging times with a compromised operating season for 2020. If you would like to support the creation of these online experiences, please consider making a small donation here: http://ow.ly/ymcM50zEWDF. Thank you!

#CultureinQuarantineMW The Getty Museum had a great idea: pick a painting from their collection and re-create it at home, using whatever comes to hand. Here's ...our version: the painting on the left, which is in the PMV collection, was painted circa 1919 by Dorothy Wyndham Eddis (later Glen) (1885-1977), an Australian-Canadian artist and Pickering resident. Our Conservator Ellen has nailed it! If you would like to re-create a piece of PMV art, you can access the collection at https://pickering.pastperfectonline.com/ and post your version here! #stayhomemakememories See more