Foundations: An Achilles Heel for Barns
by Jim Campbell, Duntroon The lowest floor level of most Ontario barns was used for housing animals whose body heat during the winter typically kept frost from creeping below the barn’s foundation walls and piers. The barn builders must have anticipated this symbiosis between animals and building – if not they would likely have extended […]
Summer Beam: Definition
by Jon Radojkovic The reason I wanted to define “Summer Beam” was that I was reading one of Eric Sloan’s books, called “Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Blake 1805, published in 1962 by Wilfred Funk Inc, NY. USA. SUMMER BEAM Sloan explained that the word summer didn’t have anything to do with that […]
A Beaver Valley Barn Visit
by Hugh Fraser, Director, Ontario Barn Preservation On Sunday, October 24, 2021, Ontario Barn Preservation (OBP) teamed up with the Grey County group ‘Contemplative Centre for Nature-Based Arts and Culture’. This months-old, Beaver Valley group brings people together to be enriched by arts and culture in the area. OBP President Jon Radojkovic and directors Jim […]
DIY Identify Key Features of your barn!
by Krista Hulshof Duynisveld
THE BURLY BARN
by Jenny Phillips, OBP Regional Rep for Middlesex, Elgin, Chatham Kent and Lambton, originally published in her book “Does it Pay?“ On October 6, 1926, John Kenneth Galbraith, a young cub reporter for the St. Thomas Times Journal interviewed W. F. Glover of Fingal Ontario. Glover was one of the 214 farmers in Southwestern Ontario […]
A STONE BARN STORY
This is one of my favourite barns in our area of Grey County. Although it’s just north of the town of Durham on Highway 6, the barn is set well back from the road and not easily seen. The front field of this barn that borders the highway is a nice one, flat and no […]
Barn Specia-List is live
Our new list is live!! But give it some time to populate! We would like to encourage you to join our Barn Specia-List available to the public on our website for people looking for assistance with their barns. If you aren’t a contractor but know one or two, please pass on this information to them. […]
Barn Frame Anatomy
This short video illustrates the key components in a classic timber frame barn! By Krista Hulshof Duynisveld Please click on the “Watch on Loom” button if you wish to view on a full screen.
Preserving Old Ontario Barns in the On-Line World: Part 5 of 5, Creating a secure, centralized and sustainable database
This blog appears throughout November and December 2020 with the following topics that build upon each other. They explore some reasons why barn databases may have failed in the past, how OBP is trying to find ways to make it simpler, and to enlist a small army of people to do the work. If something […]
Preserving Old Ontario Barns in the On-Line World: Part 4 of 5, Creating an Informative Database
by Hugh Fraser This blog appears throughout November and December 2020 with the following topics that build upon each other. They explore some reasons why barn databases may have failed in the past, how OBP is trying to find ways to make it simpler, and to enlist a small army of people to do the […]