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Chalk LINES
Article by Lorraine Johnson
The Social and Architectural Restoration of Galt’s Old Post Office
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LASSROOM NOTES written on a school chalkboard are intended, by nature and by material, for...
SHARDS of IDENTITY
Article by Lorraine Flanigan
Piecing Together Domestic Fragments
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HE YEAR WAS 1697, and Pierre le Moyne d’Iberville led his French soldiers to Carbonear, one of the oldest settlements in...
FOUNDATIONS of DEMOCRACY
Article by Michael Prokopow
Vice-Regal Mansions in Canada
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HORTLY AFTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU was elected Prime Ministerdesignate in October, 2015, a story surfaced in the press about whether or not...
A FOLLY in TIME
Article by Tatum Taylor
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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T THE EDGE OF THE SCARBOROUGH BLUFFS, where Toronto meets Lake Ontario, remnants of the city’s past rest in peace....
Maritime MEDIEVAL
Article by John Leroux
Building Fragments on the Bluffs
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ETWEEN 1841 AND 1859, Herbert Minton of Stoke-Upon-Trent, England, presented vast amounts of beautiful inlaid ceramic floor and wall tiles...
Collecting TREEN
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Article by John Adams
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ANY PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD the word treen. It is derived from an old English word that simply translates as ‘made of wood.’ Treen...
Natural History on Display: Victorian Insect Art
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Article by Suzanne Moase
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N 1831, THOMAS BARNETT opened his museum of curiosities and natural history to the viewing public in Niagara Falls. The Niagara Falls Museum,...
Arcs of Colour
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A stained glass window by Quebec artist Marcelle Ferron
Article by Rosalind Pepall
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HERE ARE MANY stained glass windows in the collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Gothic,...
The Tale of the Three-Bladed Propeller
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Article by Paul Balcaen
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HERE IS AN INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING grey wooden propeller on a hangar wall at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada in Winnipeg.
It came off...