The following blog post was written by former Museum Assistant Claire Howard. If you speak to someone who grew up in the region of southwestern Ontario from the 1920s up until a few years ago, they could probably tell you a thing or two about CKNX-TV. Many can...
Written by Sinead Cox, Curator of Engagement & Dialogue Panic in Ainleyville “AINLEYVILLE: EXCITING CHASE AFTER A RESURRECTIONIST,” reads an intriguing headline from the May 5, 1864 Huron Signal: “The Miscreant Overhauled and the ‘body’ captured!” After no...
Written by Museum Archives Assistant Natalie Conrad The story of Wingham’s picture house begins in earnest in 1908, when local undertaker William Briton opened the Wonderland. It was located north of the town hall on Josephine Street, in a building that had...
Written by Museum Assistant Alice Bosch The bicycle boom of the 1890s heavily impacted most of North America, including Huron County. The area saw bicycle production companies, most notably Henderson Bicycle Co., and retailers emerging at the time. Everyone wanted...
The Huron County Museum Gift Shop is growing its selection of products made by area artists and makers and we are pleased to feature the work of Huron County artist Autumn Ducharme!
The following blog posts were originally published by Carling Marshall-Luymes on her personal blog while she was an intern for the Huron County Museum & Huron Historic Gaol in 2007. You can see the exhibit on the history of capital punishment on permanent...
The Huron Historic Gaol (jail) is a national historic site and Huron County's first municipal building. Between 1841 and 1972, it not only served as a correctional facility, but as the site of Huron's first County Council meeting, its first courthouse, and as an...
July 9th is Cow Appreciation Day and summer student Chloe Oesch has been exploring the museum's collection for stories about cows and delicious local dairy products from Huron County's past! If you are interested in finding more cow-related artifacts, you can...
Huron County is known across the world as "Alice Munro Country." Alice Munro (1931-2024) was born in Wingham and lived in Clinton for decades. The landscapes, culture, architecture and people of Huron County are reflected in many of her incisive stories. Today...
Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. Photo: Robert Watson diary, pages 8-9. Cliquez ici pour le Français The Museum's digitization collection has grown to include scanned and uploaded eight historical diaries. They were...