Saturday December 5th, Mundy’s Bay Store at the museum will be open for shopping. Come in and do some Christmas shopping.
Burke Penny will be signing his new book at the museum on Tuesday, December 8th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Mundy’s Bay Store at the museum has a drop box for the Midland Mirror Toy Drive until Dec. 23rd.
For over forty years Jo-Ann Knicely has been collecting stamps, primarily Canadian ones with a heavy emphasis on the Victorian era. Among the gems:
- 1851, first stamp in Canada, the three pence beaver
- First Canadian Christmas stamp 1898
- 1865 Dunnville, Ontario cover, has a Prince Albert 10 cent stamp, an expensive stamp for the time and therefore an important letter
The collection has over 500 stamps with an emphasis on stamps from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.
Jo-Ann’s new area of collecting interest is Canadian law stamps.
1851 three pence beaver
1898 Canada’s first Christmas stamp
1865 Prince Albert stamp
Huronia Musuem is very lucky to be a part of the local Katimavik project again this year. We currently have two young people volunteering with us everyday until the end of the year. Both Stephen and Benoit have been wonderfuly helpful with tasks around the museum and even in education programming.
Katimavik also has 8 other young people placed with other non-profit organizations and charities in the Midland area so they are seeking a total of 10 billeting households for 10 days from Friday, November 27th to Sunday, December 6th, 2009. There is also a $10 a day stipend for households hosting a Katimavik participant.
Discover Canada without ever leaving your living room!
Here is your chance to get to know a young person who is presently volunteering in your community while introducing them to your way of living!
WHAT?
Katimavik promotes civic engagement and fosters sustainable communities through challenging national youth service programs. Participants between the ages of 17 and 21 live with 10 other youth from across the country in 2 or 3 communities. They commit to 6 or 9 month programs where they volunteer 28 to 35 hours a week for a variety of non-profit organizations. As part of the Katimavik program, participants stay with a host family of the region in order to better understand their reality and culture. For some participants, this is also an excellent opportunity to benefit from a full-fledged linguistic immersion. This precious experience will be filled with discoveries for both your family and the participant(s). Each host family will receive a subsistence allowance for the host period.
WHEN?
Participants will be billeting for a total of nine (9) nights, beginning on Friday, November 27th, and ending on Sunday, December 6th, 2009.
Families are provided with a $10.00/night/participant stipend to offset the costs of taking them in.
For more information, please contact:
Adam Iggers, Project Leader
(705) 527-2900
Work has begun to put the project papers for the TG Anderson collection online. Over 500 documents will be posted including a series of letters from the 1800s. There will be a way to search the collection of transcripts and other documents through this online arrangement. Needless to say 500 documents to do not get placed online in one day. This work will be completed by January 1st. Some documents are already in place and more will be added between now and January 1st through the efforts of volunteers. Special thanks to Peter Davis who painstakingly read and transcribed all of these handwritten documents. The museum would also like to thank Bill Gibson for creating the T.G. Anderson Papers Blog and posting this work on behalf of the museum.
see the blog of the TG Anderson Papers Project at:
next meeting of the Museum board is Nov. 17th at 7:00PM, please be on time if you wish to attend, the entrance doors are locked very very shortly after 7 pm.
Part of the extensive collection of works by Waubashene artist, Ted Lord, 1905-1979, held by the Huronia Museum. Lord worked in watercolours and linocuts.
Nov. 11 Food, Inc. 7:30 PM
Robert Kenner
94 minutes, USA, NR Cast: Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan
Modern techniques in food production pose grave risks to our health and environment. Food, Inc., exposes how unfettered corporations subvert laws and commandeer subsides in the creation of shocking monopolies. Focus on global criminal Monsanto, a corporate monster that has expanded its control over soybeans from 2% of the American market to 90% in the last decade. Monsanto is a modern day evil Goliath crushing small family farm Davids. This film portrays stories of heartbreak and outrage, but the film carefully channels these emotions towards opportunities for activism. Bon appetit!
Director Filmography Robert Kenner began his career in 1971 and is an Emmy- winning American screenwriter, director and producer for both film and television. He has produced a number of documentaries for the National Geographic Society. For PBS he has done The Road to Memphis (2003) for The Blues series and the 2005 Vietnam War documentary, Two Days in October.
Tickets:
Season subscription 5 films $40
individual ticket 1 film $9
Individual tickets are available during the week prior to the film at the Huronia Museum or are sold subjec to availability at the door of the Galaxy Theatre.
Published by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association, Beyond the Call is the story of thirty-three members of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. These men were sent to Hong Kong as part of “C” Force, the Canadian contingent of 2000 soldiers dispatched to bolster the British colony’s garrison in October, 1941.
Applying the results of four years of in depth research, including interviews with seven surviving Hong Kong Signal Corps veterans, Midland, Ontario author Burke Penny chronicles the lives of the Signallers. We follow them from the days in Canada when they joined up, through their training and trip to Hong Kong, participation in the battle against Japanese forces, their subsequent incarceration in prisoner of war camps, and finally the trip home after the war for the twenty-four who survived. “I wanted the book to focus on the men themselves with the Hong Kong battle and the POW camps as the broader backdrop to their stories,” says Penny. An often forgotten component in previous books about Hong Kong, the impact on the soldiers’ families back in Canada, provides an ongoing counterpoint to the trials faced by the men overseas.
Beyond the Call was officially released on August 14th at the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association national convention in Ottawa. The unveiling of a memorial wall honouring all members of “C” Force took place the following day. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go towards the costs of the memorial. Beyond the Call is available at www.hkvca.ca.
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Beyond the Call: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, Brigade Headquarters, “C” Force, Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945, by D. Burke Penny
Published by the Hong Kong Veterans Commemorative Association
ISBN 978-0-9733350-1-9
403 pages, trade paperback; $30.00
For information about Beyond the Call, contact:
D. Burke Penny
beyondthecall@rogers.com
Mundys Bay Store has copies for sale
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