Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum
Enjoy this sneak peek at the Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum (WHAM).
To experience everything the museums have to offer, you'll have to visit. Visit often, they are always changing things up. New exhibits, events and programming. Admission is by donation so a great value for the whole family.
For more information: waterfordmuseum.ca
Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum
The grand opening of the Agricultural Gallery & Norfolk County Agricultural Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.
Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum Grand Opening
Heritage - Waterford Museum - Norfolk County
Heritage and history in Norfolk County at Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum. Norfolk County's library of video footage is available for media outlets to use free of charge, with permission from Norfolk County Tourism. Contact tourism@norfolkcounty.ca or 519-426-9497.
Bowlby Bros & Co. Tin at Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum.avi
This tin can was shipped from Waterford, Ontario more than 100 years ago with Choice Winter Apples in it. It was found recently in Kirriemuir, Scotland and after doing some research and exchanging a few emails, the can was sent back home to Waterford. This is amazing as this tin can should have found its way into the garbage a century ago and what is even more amazing is that the Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum is housed in the old canning factory and didn't have a single old can with a label in its collection. Thank you Kirriemuir Heritage Trust.
Waterford Tricenturena 1967 Centennial
Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum (WHAM) chose photographs from its collection that told a unique and engaging Waterford story. We then set about to accurately re-create them so that we might bring each one to life through film. This project was funded by the Government of Ontario through the Museum Technology Fund.
As a 1967 Centennial project, a new arena was built in Waterford. As part of the fundraising effort, a 30 hour radio-a-thon was held at W. F. Hewitt School in December 1966. This is that radio-a-thon.
Waterford Observation Tower
Waterford Observation Tower c. 1908. A tower built by the Geodetic Society, a branch of the Federal Government to map the Dominion of Canada. The tower became a tourist attraction for many as it was said on a clear day, you could see to Niagara Falls. A bit of an exaggeration to be sure but was used on promotional material, none-the-less.
Waterford Heritage Trail
A short film on the creation of the Waterford Heritage Trail in Norfolk County, home of the Waterford Ponds Park.
For more information, visit:
waterfordpondspark.com
Waterford Pond Bridges Project (Waterford, Ontario)
waterfordpondspark.com
Update - we have got one of the bridges in place now!
We are a subcommittee of the Waterford Heritage Trail, and our project has the support of the Waterford Lion and Lioness Club, the Waterford Legion (Branch 123), the Waterford Horticultural Society, the Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum, the Waterford & Townsend Historical Society and countless citizens, cyclists, anglers, dog-walkers, hikers ... you name it!
Ontario's First Ginseng (Hellyer)
Ontario's first ginseng crop was first propagated right here in Townsend Township, Norfolk County by brothers Clarence and Albert Hellyer in 1890s. The strain that the Hellyer brothers developed is still used in today's ginseng gardens.
Waterford Heritage Tractor Drive 2012
Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum Tractor Drive 2012. A day long tour through the back roads of Norfolk County. Like every other year it was a blast! Looking forward to next year!
The Shrubberies - Here Comes the Rain Again
Cover of The Eurythmics Here Comes The Rain Again by The Shrubberies. Recorded at Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum in Waterford, Ontario.
President & Vice President Massey Collectors Club Dec 3 2017
The Canadian Massey collectors club - TwinPower Heritage Association, has a new President and Vice President for 2018.
This year is the 100th anniversary of tractors for Massey.
Our next meeting is at the Waterford Museum, in late Feb or early March
Ag museum tour
Ohio Ag director Dave Daniels tours the new Buckeye Agriculture Museum in Wooster March 13 during Ohio Ag Week.
West Tennessee Ag Museum
It's a place where agriculture's history is told though fascinating exhibits and peices of the past. The West Tennessee Agricultural Museum in Milan offers an opportunity to learn and travel thrrough time.
The Shrubberies - Here Comes The Sun
Cover of The Beatles' Here Comes the Sun recorded at Waterford Heritage & Agricultural Museum in Waterford, Ontario.
Bayer Museum of Agriculture
The Bayer Museum of Agriculture is located in Lubbock, Texas and is focused on showcasing the rich past, present and future of the West Texas agriculture industry. The Bayer Museum of Agriculture is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 pm to 5 pm. For more information on upcoming events and exhibits visit agriculturehistory.org. This video was created by Cassie Godwin.
Tired Iron, tractor museum Part 2
Bump Hamilton's tired iron tractor museum collection
There was a man who had a noble dream
Robert Owen, 1771-1858
Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire (The industrial community at New Lanark had been planned by Richard Arkwright and David Dale in 1783, to take advantage of the water power of the Falls of Clyde deep in the river valley below the burgh of Lanark, twenty-four miles upstream from of Glasgow. In 1800, there were four mills making New Lanark the largest cotton-spinning complex in Britain, and the population of the village (over 2000) was greater than that of Lanark itself. Dale was progressive both as a manufacturer and as an employer, being especially careful to safeguard the welfare of the children.
Owen's partners did not share his enthusiasm for education and welfare: the major expenditure on social buildings came only after the formation of his third partnership in 1813. His ideas were shaped by the Enlightenment, his contact with progressive ideas in Manchester as a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society, and his acquaintance with the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment. Owen's general theory was that character is formed by the effects of the environment upon the individual. Hence, education was of central importance to the creation of rational and humane character, and the duty of the educator was to provide the wholesome environment, both mental and physical, in which the child could develop. Physical punishment was prohibited and child labor was restricted. Man, being naturally good, could grow and flourish when evil was removed. Education, as one historian has put it, was to the the steam engine of his new moral world.
. The New Harmony community was not a success. By May 1827, there were ten different sub-communities on the estate, and a year later failure was apparent.
During his absence at New Harmony, the nature of Owen's support in England had begun to change. Working men were now listening to his message, democratic socialist ideas were being developed by men like William Thompson of Cork, and cooperative, labor exchange and trades union movements were becoming more popular. Owen became convinced that the world of competitive industrial capitalism had reached a stage of crisis and that the leaders of society would now turn to him in their hour of need. What Owen offered the working class Owenites was social salvation -- his creed was that of the secular millennium.
These views were expressed in his weekly periodical, The Crisis (1832-1834), and had a following particularly among the labor aristocrats of London who sought to exchange their products according to the labor theory of value at the Gray's Inn Road Labour Exchange, which Owen opened in 1832.
Breaking with these labor movements in 1834, Owen turned back to his plan for a community and founded a journal, The New Moral World (November, 1834) and an organization, the Association of All Classes of All Nations (May, 1835) to prepare public opinion for the millennium.
In the 1840s, Owen embarked on a new settlement at Queenwood Farm in Hampshire. There was insufficient capital and the community, projected to support 500 members, never attracted more than ninety communitarians. In 1841, Owen secured capital from a consortium of capitalist friends and built a luxurious mansion, Harmony Hall, to house a community normal school which would train Owenites in a correct communitarian environment. Owen quickly spent his funds and in July 1842 was removed from control. He resumed control in May 1843, but his concept of a normal school was not what many Owenites had hoped for, and in 1844 the annual Owenite Congress rebelled against his despotic control of community policy.
Owen moved on. His missions to Europe and North America never ceased and he retained a lively interest in current affairs, confidently expecting that governments would secure his services. In 1855 he called a series of public meetings to proclaim the millennium. A loyal nucleus of Owenites stood by his side, devoted to the man who, whatever else he had done, had given them a vision of a new moral world. In 1853 he became a spiritualist. On November 17, 1858 Owen died in the Bear Hotel, next door to the house in which he was born.
Owen's character was a paradox to his contemporaries. By temperament, he was conservative and authoritarian; by nature he was naive. He was convinced that man's character was made for him, rather than by him and that social change would only come from calm reasoning with the leaders of society. He never believed in the independent power of the working classes and he could never conceive that within capitalist society there might be more than one rationally agreed interest.
Grossology, The Tour.mp4
Kids of all ages will enjoy Grossology..the Impolite Science of the Human Body. This fun and fascinating exhibit is featured through January 8, 2012 at the Waterford Heritage and Agricultural Museum in Waterford, Ontario. Don't miss Grossology's last stop in Canada.