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GEORGE STEPHEN
Article by Alexander Reford
A Client and His Commissions
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HEN WE THINK ABOUT ARCHITECTURE, we most often think about the building and the architect who designed it. Less often...
Shelf LIFE
Article by Jules Torti
The Social and Architectural Restoration of Galt’s Old Post Office
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OFFEE HOUSES AND LIBRARIES have long been gathering grounds for community movers and shakers. Acting...
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...
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...