PineRidge Arts Council
Pickering Museum Village
Foundation
FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL: See History in
Action – 2007
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New this year is the Rubber Duckie RACE
at 3 p.m. The adopted ducks will float down Duffins Creek in a
fundraising race as part of their support of the Brougham
Central Hotel Restoration Project. The RACE sponsors are CIMAS
Construction, Parkway Retirement Residence, BMO Nesbitt Burns,
OPG, Veridian, News Advertiser, PineRidge Arts Council and all
who adopt a duck (tickets available at the event up to 2 p.m.)
– first prize $1250. The Open Horseshoe Tournament
sponsored by Chartwell Select Pickering City Centre and
operated by Claremont Legion #483 will have CASH prizes. Local
merchants have been generous this year for the super
‘win-what-you-want' raffle and Veridian’s
Putting’ FORE dollars features cash prizes for adults and
fun prizes for kids.
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Come out this year and see what is
happening at the Gas and Steam Barn – you will be
surprised!
Hemlines up or down, changing hat shapes,
alteration in the sleeves; see how fashions changed during the
19th century in Rural Runway at the Fall Family Festival.
Concentrating mostly on clothing available in rural areas, our
models feature fashions from 1810 to 1910 and examine how
changes in society were often reflected in the clothing of the
time.
Parking and admission for the event is
free thanks to event sponsor Veridian, but there is a cost to
enter the Horseshoe and Golf activities or adopt a Rubber
Duckie. Other sponsors who help make the day possible are
Coughlan Homes, SmartCentres, GTAA, Marshall Homes, Miller
Waste an Pickering Town Centre.
Pickering Museum Village is just off of
Hwy. 7 between Brock and Westney Road, in the Hamlet of
Greenwood. The event runs from noon to 4:30 p.m.
Above left: Puterbaugh Schoolhouse,
completed PMVF and City of Pickering joint project
and current one, the Brougham Central Hotel
Restoration Project (BCH and Redman House)
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Fall Family Festival: See history
in action 2008 ~ Sunday, October 5
… a favourite family tradition in
the Region of Durham
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Did you hear the Steam Whistle last year?
Come out this year and see what is happening in and around the
Gas and Steam Barn! Other annual favourites of wagon rides,
music by Country Friends, Sweet Adelines and Stepping Tyme will
take place throughout the village. Heritage demonstrations,
samples of heritage food, children's pioneer games, and the
amazing “Win-What-You-Want” raffle all return for
another year to delight the child in all.
The Rubber Duckie RACE, introduced last
year returns. Adopt a duck for the race and you could win up to
$1000! Tickets can be purchased in advance just check this
website for locations. They will also be available during the
Festival and cost $5 each or 3 for $10. CASH Prizes are $1000
for first duckie across the finish line, $500 for second and
$250 for third. Duckies to be at the starting gate at 3:30 p.m.
PineRidge Arts Council members Susan
Lindo, Gwen Williams, Anja Knuuttila and Dorsey James will
engage spectators while they demonstrate their unique pumpkin
carving styles.
Hemlines up or down? See how fashions
changed during the 19 th century in Rural Runway at the Fall
Family Festival.
Pickering Museum Village is just off of
Hwy #7, between Brock Road and Westney Road. For more
information please contact the museum village
cityofpickering.com/museum or at 905.683.8401. For how you can
sponsor an event or help with the restoration of the Brougham
Central Hotel, please call Patrick Dunnill at 905.839.4672.
Congratulations to Pat Dunnill,
re-elected for another year as PMVF Chair and Mary Cook and
Bill McLean being elected for another three year term!
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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.
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:
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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.
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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
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Membership/Treasurer
Pickering Museum Village
Foundation
c/o Bill Weston,
Treasurer
1510 Boyne Court Pickering, Ontario, Canada L1V 5N6 |