About the Foundation: In 1996 the Pickering Museum Village Advisory Committee recognized the need to establish a fundraising organization to generate additional support for Pickering's Heritage. With the assistance of the Ontario Historical Society, the Pickering Museum Village Foundation was born. The goals of the Foundation are: • to assist Pickering Museum Village in major restoration projects. • to assist with the acquisition, restoration, maintenance, recording and care of all artifacts of the site. • to generate an endowment fund to support the future restoration, research, and display needs of Pickering Museum Village. • to assist Pickering Museum Village in the development and presentation of educational programmes. Brougham Central Hotel Restoration Project: The Foundation’s current project is the preservation and restoration of the Brougham Central Hotel. Together with the City of Pickering (see city photos) the BCH will be restored to a mid 1850s Temperance Hotel. As such it will provide an opportunity for educational programmes on the development of alcohol legislation in Ontario and to display architectural and construction techniques of the 19th Century to all visitors. Fundraisers are fun with PMVF: Whodunit? with the Backwoods Players and the Fall Family Festival. PMV Foundation memberships start at only $25. Contact Pat Dunnill, Chairman 905.839.4672.

Projects initiated and/or supported by the Foundation The Foundation has: • funded research and feasibility projects for the Brougham Central Hotel and a condition assessment of the BCH to reflect its many roles throughout time from its probable origin as a single home in 1822 through its time as a temperance hotel to the present. • enlisted the talents of Ajax Creative Arts to provide drawings of the buildings and produced If walls could talk, a collection of the drawings and a short history of each building. • formed a partnership with Benjamin Moore Paints to fund the interior restoration of the 1853 Bible Christian Chapel. Its interior walls, ceiling and floor were patched and painted by Foundation members and friends. New pews were constructed and appropriate lighting was donated by a local blacksmith. • launched our first joint project with the city. In 1996 an early 1800s log house was donated to Pickering Museum Village by the Puterbaugh family and descendant Louise Parkes. This building, officially opened in June, 2000 as our schoolhouse. • obtained a grant from Canada Trust Friends of the Environment and assisted with heritage tree and shrub planting in the museum village. • funded the installation of cairn and donated bell in front of the Puterbaugh Schoolhouse. • provided assistance to Bloomers and Britches, the museum village heritage gardeners. They, in return, have made substantial donations back to the Foundation. • funded repairs and cleaning of the 1890 reed pump organ in the Chapel. • funded the purchase of computer hardware and a digital camera to the museum village for cataloguing artifacts. • purchased the Harry Foster document collection and presented it to the museum village in 2003. • partnered with Sears for new maintenance tools for the Gas and Steam Barn • Purchased the Harry Foster document collection and presented it to the museum village in 2003.

Pickering Museum Village Foundation General Inquiries: 905 839 4672 PMVF – Pat Dunnill, Chair P.O. Box 66035 1355 Kingston Road Pickering, Ontario, Canada L1V 6P7 pat.dunnill@sympatico.ca

Membership/Treasurer Pickering Museum Village Foundation c/o Bill Weston, Treasurer 1510 Boyne Court Pickering, Ontario, Canada L1V 5N6 Click to download a pdf membership form.