PineRidge Arts Council
2005 AGM – Guest speaker, Rob Leverty, presented “Ontario Cemeteries – the
Struggle for the Public Interest”
Whodunit?: “Sounds Like Murder” – July 9, 10, 16 & 17 and Fall
Family Festival – October 2, 2005
Pickering Museum Village
Foundation 2005 AGM
1st PhotoBar: guest speaker Rob Leverty
(standing); PMVF Chair Pat Dunnill
2nd PhotoBar: PMVAdvisory Committee member
Bill Gosse, PMVF Director Rose Cowan, PMV AC Chair Laura Drake,
Pat Dunnill; Diana and Bill McLean, Cecilia Barbosa Brou; Pat,
Lynda O’Brien and Bill Utton.
Chair’s Annual Report (highlights)
Pat announced the Programme Centre is
proceeding rapidly, but we must not forget our goal, the
restoration of the Brougham Central Hotel.
Special acknowledgment to OPG who have
given PMVF $31,000 since 1999.
Thanks to Jonathan Rucinski’s
family and friends for their generous donations through
Jonathan’s memorial request.
Pickering Rotary Club have announced that
PMVF will be their Centennial Project and we are excited to be
partnering with them for the restoration of the Brougham
Central Hotel.
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Directors
Pat Dunnill, Chair term of office from
2005–2006
Rose Cowan, Director term of office from
2004–2006
Charles Stinson, Director term of office from
2004–2006
Bill Weston, Director/
Treasurer term of office from 2003–2006 |
Suzanne Derome, Director term of office from
2005–2007
Tania Taylor, Director term of office from
2005–2007
Bill Utton, Director term of office from
2004–2007
Mary Cook, Director/
Secretary term of office from 2005–2008
Bill McLean, Director term of office from
2005–2008
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Tom Reed, Director
term of office from 2005–2008
Lynda O'Brien, (retired June/05)
Ex-Officio
Laura Drake, Pickering Museum Village Advisory
Committee Chair
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Pickering Museum Village Foundation
General Inquiries: 905 839 4672
Pat Dunnill, PMVF Chair
736 Yeremi Street Pickering, Ontario Canada L1W 2W9 |
Treasurer
Pickering Museum Village
Foundation
Bill Weston, Treasurer
1510 Boyne Court Pickering, ON L1V 5N6 |
photosPickering
Museum Village Foundation 2004 AGM
Teetotalers and Others Invited
The current project of the Pickering
Museum Village Foundation (PMVF) is the restoration of the
Brougham Central Hotel to the mid 1850s when it was the only
Temperance Hotel in the area. Although it held this designation
for just a short time, the PMVF and the City of Pickering
recognize the importance of preserving this piece of Canada's
history. In keeping with the Temperance era to be represented
by the hotel, the PMVF Annual General Meeting, on
Thursday, June 17, 2004 was called a TEA MEETING and AGM.
Guest speaker was Prof. Craig Heron,
author of Booze: A Distilled History and he spoke about the
development of alcohol legislation, particularly with respect
to the Temperance Movement.
Special guests included:
Mayor David Ryan; who brought greetings and good news from the City
of Pickering and presented Sara Barclay with the Ontario
Heritage Foundation’s Youth Heritage Leader Achievement
Pin and Recognition Certificate
John Sabean –
a representative from Ontario Historical Society, presented the
museum
from left: Pat, Katrina, Mary, Julie and
Angela Steyn
village with the 'Museum Award of
Excellence in Community Programming'; and the Backwoods Players as
a delegation from the ‘Toronto Women's Christian
Temperance Union'. There was also a raffle for patio furniture
donated by Canadian Home Leisure.
"Restoration of an 1850s temperance
hotel will be unique in Ontario" says Pat Dunnill, PMVF
Chairman. "As such it will provide an opportunity for
educational programmes at Pickering Museum Village on the
development of alcohol legislation in Ontario and it will
display architectural and construction techniques of the 19th
Century. Later this year we plan to relocate the hotel onto a
new foundation in the site, preparing it for restoration. With
a full partnership in the project with the City of Pickering,
we will bring a local heritage house into the heart of the
village and it will become our programme centre."
Left: Julie Oakes, Craig Heron, Katrina
Pyke and Mary Delaney protest the book BOOZE; Mayor David Ryan,
Katrina Pyke (PMV staff), John Sabean, Dave Marlowe (PMV
staff), Laura Drake (PMV Advisory Committee Chair) and Pat
Dunnill. PMVF Chair (seated) – OHS Museum Award of
Excellence presentation; below Sara Barclay receives her award
from Pickering’s Mayor, David Ryan.
Photography by Mary Cook ©
Left: Mayor David Ryan, Prof. Craig Heron
and Pat Dunnill Right: Pat, Katrina and Bill Utton, PMVF
Director
Pickering Museum Village
Foundation 2003 AGM
Pickering Museum Village Foundation
welcomed guest speaker John Sewell to its 5th Annual General
Meeting on June 12, 2003.
Foundation Chair, Pat Dunnill reported
fundraising for the Brougham Central Hotel Project was
progressing well.
Photo left: Laura Drake, Pickering Museum
Village Advisory Committee Chair, John Sewell, Pat Dunnill,
PMVF Chair
Photography by Mary Cook
The copy of the Rebellion Banner,
now completed was presented to Dave Marlowe, Education and
collections officer of the Pickering Museum Village by Barb Vranic and Lyn McGowan.
Lyn and the Shuttlebug Weavers and
Spinners wove the fabric in the style used in the early 1800s
and Barb cut the letters from a template of the original and
stitched them into position.
Photo above: Barb Vranic, Pat Dunnill and
Lyn McGowan Photography by Mary Cook
it sometime early in 2002.
Lyn McGowan and Barb Vranic each made a
trip to view the banner and, with the PMV Foundation's backing,
agreed to reproduce it. The weaving of the banner was done at
the home of the Shuttlebug Spinners & Weavers Guild in
Greenwood on the loom donated by the parents of Elizabeth
Martins, a past educational interpreter at the Pickering Museum
Village, with the advice, encouragement and support of the
other members.
Lyn found the appropriate colour and
weight of yarn and painstakingly wove some seven yards of fine
red worsted wool, 22 inches wide, then washed it and fulled it
and handed it over to Barb. Barb sized the wool to the length
and width of the original banner. Mary made a template of the
numbers and letters using her computer. Using the template,
Barb cut out the cotton letters and numbers and sewed them in
their rightful place with Mary’s help, using linen
thread. Each character was reproduced as in the original,
including the misspelled word and the upside-down '8'.
The words inscribed on the banner cover
both sides:
BIDWELL and the GLORIOUS MANORITY
1837 and A GOOD BEGINNING.
and VICTORIA the 1st – and
REFORM
You will be able to see this banner at
the Annual General Meeting of the PMV Foundation on June 12 and
also during the ninth annual production of A Spirit Walk at the
museum village in September 2003.
by Barb Vranic
VICTORIA THE 1st – and REFORM, so says one side of the
famous rebel banner of 1837. Great were the hopes of William
Lyon Mackenzie, his Radical Reformers and the lot that threw in
with him including the local Brougham farmer Peter Matthews.
They say that this red wool banner hung in Montgomery’s
Tavern to inspire and give courage to those who gathered there
in advance of the planned march on Toronto and the government
of Upper Canada. But we all know what happened, banner or no
banner, the rebellion failed.
When the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper
Canada, Sir Francis Bond Head marched up Yonge Street at the
head of his army on Thursday, the seventh of December, 1837,
and drove the rebels from their headquarters at
Montgomery’s Tavern, he found in the tavern a banner.
This he concluded, was the rebel standard, and he took it as a
trophy. He took it to England when he returned there in 1838
and it remained in the possession of his descendants until July
1962. Sir Francis’ great-granddaughter, Mrs. F. M.
Morris-Davies and her nephew, the then Sir Francis Bond Head,
returned it to Ontario and to the Archives of Ontario. And this
is where Laura Drake and Mary Cook located