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What’s in Our Archives?

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When visitors attend the Peterborough Museum & Archives (PMA), usually it is to experience the gallery exhibits. Exhibits tend to

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Putting Your Foot First For The New Year

January 15, 2023January 16, 2023 Cottage Country 108 Views1788, 1799, 2023, 300 Hunter St E, Auld Lang Syne, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Canada, CCC Publications, clean, Clootie Dumpling, coal, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, dark, dark-haired, December 31, Don Willcock, Dr John and Martha Hutchinson, family, Fenelon Falls, first, first footer, First footing, foot, friends, greeting, Haliburton, happy, Hogmanay, home, Hutchison House Museum, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kircaldy, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, log, Lowland Scots, lyrics, midnight, new year, old long since, Old Scots, Ontario, peat, Peterborough, pier, revellers, Robert Burns, Scotland, Scottish settlers, settlers, sing, song, tall, The Peterborough Museum & Archives, Things to do, time, tradition, tragedy, visitor, wee dram, whisky, winter, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Today, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, most revellers sing the song Auld Lang Syne and join

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“Wonderful Things…”

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November 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of what may be considered the world’s greatest archaeological discovery. On 26 November 1922,

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What I Did on my Summer Vacation – In 1967

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Do you recall what you did on your summer vacation fifty-five years ago? Maybe not, until I mention that 1967

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Past & Present

May 18, 2022May 25, 2022 Cottage Country 223 Views300 Hunter St E, 705-743-5180, archives, Art Museum Foundation, artifacts, Ashburnham Memorial Park, collection, Community, Craig Zeidler & Strong, Don Willcock, historical, Hunter St W, Joore & Kraetzer, May, Museum Month, past, Peterborough Historical Society, Peterborough Museum & Archives, PMA, present, Public Library, Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee

Peterborough Museum & Archives The Peterborough Museum & Archives (PMA) has been located in Ashburnham Memorial Park, off Hunter Street

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Welcome to the Spring into Summer Issue

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022 Cottage Country 162 ViewsBobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Canada, Canada’s National Fishing Week, CCC Publications, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Life, Don Willcock, Fenelon Falls, fishing, home, Inukshuk Farm, Kawartha Lakes, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Keep Canada Fishing, Kids, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, may june, Memories, Mike Williams, Peterborough, R&J Machine, recipes, Russ Sanders, shop local, shopping, summer, Things to do, those were the days, water, weekend at the cottage, Williams Outfitters, winter, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Spring is in full swing here in Cottage Country. We have (hopefully) finished with the rainy season and we are

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William & Walter Blackwell, PETERBOROUGH ARCHITECTS

April 16, 2022 Cottage Country 449 Views300 Hunter St E, 705-743-5180, architect, Blackwell, Craig & Zeidler, Don Willcock, Eberhard Zeidler, King George Public School, Peterborough, The Peterborough Museum & Archives, Walter Renison Lightborne Blackwell, William Blackwell, www.peterboroughmuseumandarchives.ca, Y.M.C.A.

Renowned Canadian architect Eberhard Zeidler, who died in January, usually is thought of as a “Toronto Architect” but actually began

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Peterborough Canoes, Sure – But Peterborough Toboggans?

January 26, 2022 Cottage Country 445 ViewsBobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Canada, Communities in Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, Don Willcock, Kawarthas, Montreal’s Mount Royal, museum, Ontario, Peterborough, The Peterborough Canoe Company, The Peterborough Museum & Archives, tobogganing

The Peterborough Canoe Company (PCC) was formed in 1892 and operated until 1961. It produced thousands of wide-board, cedar strip,

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Alderville’s War Memorial

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In the years following World War One, communities across Canada looked for ways to memorialize their war dead and to

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Roseneath Fair – Memories

October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 Cottage Country 457 Views300 Hunter St E, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Canada, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Don Willcock, lakefield, Ontario, Peterborough, Peterborough Museum & Archives, Roseneath Fair

Agricultural fairs, many of which occur in September and October, are an important part of rural Ontario life. While big exhibitions

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