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Get to Know the NOTL Museum Courtyard
Wednesday September 11, 2024
Our summer student Tylaan Kalemba explores some of the artifacts and plants in the Museum's courtyard.
It's in the Cards: Packing Apples
Thursday August 8, 2024
Museum volunteer and postcard collector, John Sayers, looks at the story behind one of the postcards from his wife's collection.
5 Heritage Homes This Assistant Curator Finds the “Sexiest” in NOTL
Thursday July 11, 2024
In conjunction with our current exhibition of heritage homes, our Assistant Curator explains the five houses she chose as "sexiest" in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Six Nations Chiefs explaining wampum, Brantford, 1871.
Thursday June 20, 2024
For Indigenous History Month we look at early alliances and treaties between Indigenous People and settlers.
Marie Rye & Our Western Home
Thursday May 9, 2024
Our Program Assistant, Robyn, looks at the work of Maria Rye and "Our Western Home" located here in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where thousands of young girls came through from England to become domestic workers in Canada.
Sketch showing the low-level land given to the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company, 1831
Tuesday April 9, 2024
The Museum's Curator dives into the history of what we call the "dock area" and why there have historically been issues with water levels.