Family Heritage Day at the Museum

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Family Heritage Day proved to be a resounding success at the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre in Southampton, Saugeen Shores.

The day has been set aside as a provincial holiday to encourage families to spend quality time together in a wide range of activities, indoors and out.

Staff, dressed in period costumes borrowed from the Southampton 150th Anniversary
Committee, greeted more than 600 visitors during the day.

Those who took advantage of the day off work to visit the Museum, participated in several various hands-on activities that included weaving, corking & wool carding and snow-shoeing. In addition, most people took the opportunity to tour Southampton on a horse-drawn carriage and also enjoy the old-time music that was featured in the Bruce Power Theatre.

The day-long event attracted visitors from throughout Grey and Bruce Counties and other southwestern Ontario communities, such as Guelph and London, and one visitor from as far away as New Zealand.

Grey Bruce Woodturners Guild demonstrated their fine art of woodturning

Everywhere you looked the Museum was filled with curious visitors

Robert Shular & Friends performed old-time music

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The 'ladies' of the Museum in the dress of 'yesteryear'

Liz Ritchie & her Clydesdales are always popular

(L) Amelia & Hannah Baily try carding with their grandmother, Trudy Schwass

Elana LaBlance knits socks on a 100 year-old machine

Collin Little learns the intricacies of weaving from Sharon Feltham

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