By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Today is Election Day for eligible Ontario voters, a chance to make history by participating in the democratic process. To mark the day, here are some election-related items from the museum's collection: a 118-year-old...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Today we feature a blank slate as we open up the blog to all kinds of content from the Huron County Museum and related sites. When we started the blog back in December 2013, it was mostly a vehicle to talk about...
By Jenna Leifso, Archivist Last week we looked at whether James Bond was named after someone buried in Maitland Cemetery, today we are going to determine if Hollywood royalty came to No. 31 Air Navigation School (Port Albert). Myth #2: According to a story told in...
By Jenna Leifso, Archivist There are a lot of stories shared about the BCATP schools in Huron County, some are true, others are not. Over the next few days we're going to dispel two myths that involve the rich and famous. Myth #1: Ian Fleming, creator of the James...
By Jenna Leifso, Archivist Your training is done and you're about to go back to the war in Europe or the Pacific but you have to leave behind your new wife or girlfriend in Canada. What do you give her to remember you by? A popular option for those in the...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant In September, I posted a picture on the Museum’s Facebook page as an example of the WWII-era wedding photographs in the Henderson collection. What I didn’t know at the time is that the wedding dress in the picture was...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Working with a photographic collection from a studio photographer means we have access to many instances of two or more shots taken in short succession. In essence, there are hundreds of two-frame movies available to us...
By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant 16,274,377,342,285. Sixteen trillion, two hundred seventy-four billion, three hundred seventy-seven million, three hundred forty-two thousand, two hundred eighty-five. That is the number of pixels that make up the...
In Part 1, we featured the three dogs that appeared in class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Today is a somber post about a dog that was killed by one of the guards. On February 29, 1944, a letter ran in the Sky...