Blog

October's Blog highlights the formation of the Coloured Corps, or Runchey's Company, a company of Black men raised during the War of 1812 and led by Richard Pierpoint.

Our summer student Tylaan Kalemba explores some of the artifacts and plants in the Museum's courtyard.

Museum volunteer and postcard collector, John Sayers, looks at the story behind one of the postcards from his wife's collection.

In conjunction with our current exhibition of heritage homes, our Assistant Curator explains the five houses she chose as "sexiest" in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

For Indigenous History Month we look at early alliances and treaties between Indigenous People and settlers.

Our Program Assistant, Robyn, looks at the work of Maria Rye and "Our Western Home" located here in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where thousands of young girls came through from England to become domestic workers in Canada.