Curious Curator: Protectograph Cheque Writer
According to the 2010 US Federal Reserve Payment Study, people write 24.4 billion cheques each year, either personal or for business-related purposes. History of Cheques The advent of cheques emerged...
View ArticleCurious Curator: Composition of the Bowling Balls
Historically, the bowling ball was made of lignum vitae, a very hard, dense wood, until, 1905 when the first rubber bowling ball “Evertrue” was introduced. With the success of Evertrue, the Brunswick...
View ArticleCurious Curator: Weather Forecasting Instruments
Behind the heavy velvet draperies or hidden in the nooks and crannies throughout the Estate is a collection of artifact instruments to forecast and calculate the weather. Temperature and humidity are...
View ArticleWhy Parkwood Estate Is Your Dream Wedding Destination
Deciding where you wish to elope with the love of your life is a significant life choice. Choosing a historic and elegant setting for your wedding will create an irreplaceable backdrop, that will have...
View ArticleThe Awakening of Flora
Some of you may be familiar with the ballet anacréontique Le Réveil de Flore first performed in 1894, while others may be more familiar with our Palm House, goddess of spring, Flora. Flora has been...
View ArticleJane Austen: The 1906 Chawton Edition
The Austen collection on the shelves is the 12 volume 1906 Chawton edition, an octavo, the boards are marble paper covered, with deckling outside edges, the top edges have gilt. The set is bound in...
View ArticleFun Things to Do in Oshawa, Ontario
Canada is known for its hidden gems, and one of those gems is in the heart of Ontario. Oshawa, Ontario may not get the fanfare that Toronto – less than an hour away – receives, but there are many...
View ArticleWar Production and the Effects on Parkwood
One of my curatorial delights about Parkwood is the rare fact that we still find items of the past within, or on the estate grounds, every day. Part of this is due to the fact that as a home, Parkwood...
View ArticleBreakfast Room Draperies
I arrived at work today to a query from our Ask Sam box in the gift shop about the Breakfast Room draperies. For those not familiar with the draperies, from archival photographs, the current ones are...
View ArticleThe Cattle in the Stall
Christmas 1932, Adelaide received a volume of sketches and poems by Nina Moore Jamieson called The Cattle in the Stall. The volume of poems was printed and sold shortly after Jamieson passed away...
View ArticleCurios Curator: Les Lointains Scenic Wallpaper
by Samantha George The paper is a scenic design of a temperate forest is sage and grisaille tones to create the panorama that surrounds an occupant in the Rose Room, located at the north east corner...
View ArticleCurious Curator: Junius Morgan & The Long Point Gang
by Samantha George the Christmas of 1953, Sam McLaughlin received a privately printed book, Further Recollections of Long Point, written by friend Junius S Morgan, (yes, grandson of THAT Morgan...
View ArticleGardeners’ Gander: Succulent Care
by Nancy Lawrence, Green house Grower What do you do with that succulent dish garden or pot that you brought home from the garden center? The post Gardeners’ Gander: Succulent Care appeared first on...
View ArticleMrs. Lee’s Vanity Set
by Samantha George, Curator Mrs. Lees was one of the Parkwood seamstresses employed by Adelaide McLaughlin The post Mrs. Lee’s Vanity Set appeared first on Parkwood Estate.
View ArticleGardener’s Gander: A Little Green
by Nancy Lawrence, Greenhouse Grower January has brought us unusually warm gray dull days but here at the Greenhouses The post Gardener’s Gander: A Little Green appeared first on Parkwood Estate.
View ArticleParkwood Foundation: At-Home Gala Dinner
Although we cannot be together in person this year, we can still be together in spirit! Join us for the Parkwood Foundation At-Home Gala Dinner. The post Parkwood Foundation: At-Home Gala Dinner...
View ArticleChristmas String Art
Get crafting into the holiday season with this fun socially distanced 2.5 hour workshop in the McLaughlin Room at Parkwood. Hosted by Andrea Ryan from Blissful Days Designs you will learn the standard...
View ArticleRaffle Registration Form
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