Welcome to the Stanhope Heritage Museum
The Stanhope Museum, located in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario, is home to more than 140 years of records and artifacts. This Ontario museum specializes in local pioneer history and is home to the historic Hawk Lake Log Chute. Hawk Lake Log Chute is the only remaining log chute of its kind in Ontario. The log chute has been painstakingly repaired and reconstructed.
The Stanhope Museum is one of Ontario's smaller museums but it has one of the largest archives of Ontario pioneer history and records. The museum is only a two hour drive from Toronto just north of the town of Minden in the scenic Haliburton Highlands of Ontario.
10TH STANHOPE HERITAGE DAY Saturday July 21, 2012
Celebrate our 10th Anniversary with local folks demonstrating historic arts and trades such as maple syrup making, pottery, tatting, basketry, carving, caning, spinning, weaving and rug hooking. See displays of antique and press cameras, vintage cars, Haliburton rocks and minerals, quilts, bee observation box, canoes and paddles, and the unique Haliburton Gold lake trout. Learn local history from authors, the genealogy society and the portable library. Kids can touch farm animals, decorate gingerbread cookies, play traditional games, and have their faces painted. Muskoka Wildlife Centre demonstration at 11 am. Many items for sale including local farm produce, our award winning citron marmalade, heritage seeds and garden gifts. Enjoy Gord Kidd’s music, a BBQ lunch, goodies from the bake sale table. Wander through the past from 9 to 3 at the Stanhope Museum grounds, 1123 North Shore Rd, just east of Hwy 35 north of Carnarvon. $2 admission; kids 5 & under free.
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