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Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum Featured Exhibits

Different Strokes for Different Folks

This premier Folk Art exhibit showcases the museum's highly colourful and unique artifacts.These homemade works of art from our community's past and present celebrate the whimsical, inventive and 1901 Neff Steam Buggyoriginal.

 

  

 

 
 
 

Celebrating our Agricultural Past

Learn more about the farming way of life, the settlement of land, its use and the people.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Flour Power

The Port Colborne Maple Mill started to produce flour in 1911 and soon became the largest flour mill in the British Empire. Discover fascinating industrial archives and memorabilia from "The Company that grew with Canada."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

Mills & Marauders- The Rumour Wheels of War

Mills & Marauders- The Rumour Wheels of War

As the war of 1812 approaches, loyalties, convinctions and a way of life are threatened. Learn in this exhibit how the Sugarloaf Settlement society and its vital Zavitz Mill are forced to take a stand.

 
 
 

Schedule of Events

May 1st 2011

Open 12-5 Daily, Free Admission

May 29th, 2011

Arabella's Pie Social, History Fair & Antique Road Show

   Port Colborne Museum, 280 King St.

June 1st, 2011

Arabella's Tea Room Opens

June 1st to the 4th, 2011

Arabella's Tea for Two Week, two

for the price of one

May to December, 2011

Different Strokes for Different Folks- This premier Folk Art exhibit showcases

the museum's highly colourful and unique artifacts.These homemade works of art

from our community's past and present celebrate the whimsical, inventive and original.

Celebrating our Agricultural past- Learn more about the farming way of life,

the settlement of land, its use and the people.

May-November, 2011

Flour Power- The Port Colborne Maple Leaf Mill started to

produce flour in 1911, discover fascinating industrial archives and memorabilia

from "The Company that grew with Canada"

Mills and Marauders- The Rumour Wheels of War -

As the War of 1812 approaches, loyalties, convictions and way of life are threatened.

Learn in this exhibit how Sugarloaf Settlement society and

 its vital Zavitz Mill are forced to take a stand.

Canal Days - July 30th -31st, 2011

33nd Annual Canal Days, a marine

heritage festival at the Museum

July- December, 2011

Wrecks and Relics- 100 years submerged, 9 metres below

 the surface of Lake Erie, 3km from shore lies the wreck of the Raleigh.

Explore the underwater world with artifacts from the Raleigh and other shipwrecks.

November- December, 2011

Christmas in the Country- Step back in time to experience the

holiday ambience of a Christmas in the country.

December 4th, 2011

Grand Old Christmas Festival

Experience a Christmas event

complete with carriage

rides, pioneer activities, warm

chestnuts, many purchaseable

yuletide items and, of course, Santa!

Port Colborne Museum, 280 King St.

For more information, please contact us at 905-834-7604

 
 
 
 
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