Education in Eramosa: Part 2 – Exploring the OAC Dairy Barns
By Emma Rutledge In this month’s blog post, we have an article written by Emma Rutledge, who is a history student at University of Guelph. Experiential learning is a great way for students to get out of the classroom and develop real-world skills informed by their studies. OBP was thrilled to partner with the University […]
Education in Eramosa
Part 1 – Exploring Farmer Tim’s Historic Barns Written by Emma Rutledge Foreword written and edited by Mikayla Barney In this month’s blog post, we have an article written by Emma Rutledge, who is a history student at University of Guelph. Experiential learning is a great way for students to get out of the classroom […]
An Itinerant Historian With a Camera
GORDON BECK PHOTOGRAPHY by Claudia Smith, OBP Secretary Part 1 “When people say, ‘There used to be a barn here,’ it is too late.” The acclaimed photojournalist, Gordon Beck, took this to heart and his passion for the pre-1900 barns of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville in Ontario became all-consuming. His drives along the […]
An Itinerant Historian With a Camera
GORDON BECK PHOTOGRAPHY by Claudia Smith, OBP Secretary Part 2 – continued from last week … Gordon understood the future value of his photographs and his goal was to “document and photograph the devolution of the barns” of Leeds and Grenville. Even if he saw an interesting barn just across the county line, no photo was […]
The New Custodians: Part 3 of 3
by Cathy and Richard Cooper, Kingston Continued from Part 2 published May 1st. | Part 1 published May 1st. We learned that the original 100 acres was first granted in 1775 to Silas Johnstone as part of the Crowns Land Act. It changed hands several times before being purchased by Alexander Grant in 1846. The census of […]
The New Custodians: Part 2 of 3
by Cathy and Richard Cooper, Kingston Continued from Part 1 published May 1st. | Part 3 published May 1st. Travis’s plan included a complete deconstruction of the existing barn. A review of what we could keep, what we could repair and what we would have to replace. Travis, with chisel and mallet in hand, then hand […]
An Itinerant Historian With a Camera
GORDON BECK PHOTOGRAPHY by Claudia Smith, OBP Secretary Part 3, continued from last week … Gordon worked for the Montreal Gazette for 25 years chronicling Montreal’s history from Expo 67 to John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In for Peace to the 1976 Olympics. When he and his wife, Ewa Bujnicka, moved to Brockville they opened a gallery […]
Why are barns painted red?
by Thomas Durant Visser, Professor of Historic Preservation, University of Vermont, courtesy of The Conversation. This excerpt from The Conversation was recommended by Dr. John Carter, OBP Regional Representative for Bruce, Grey and Dufferin Counties in support of Ontario Barn Preservation including child-centred activities and articles. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have […]
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 […]
Early Barns of Central & Eastern Ontario
© J. Phillips Jenny Phillips is the Ontario Barn Preservation’s Regional Representative for Elgin, Middlesex, Chatham-Kent and Lambton Counties. She is also an author/historian and an artist who paints and sketches rural landscapes and images. Recently she received a call from a local Thrift Shop. A shoe box of old photos was donated but didn’t meet the […]