Researching Canada’s ‘Last Public Hanging’

Researching Canada’s ‘Last Public Hanging’

The following blog posts were originally published by Carling Marshall-Luymes on her personal blog while she was an intern for the Huron County Museum & Huron Historic Gaol in 2007. You can see the exhibit on the history of capital punishment on permanent display...
Cow Appreciation: Andrew Dairy

Cow Appreciation: Andrew Dairy

July 9th is Cow Appreciation Day and summer student Chloe Oesch has been exploring the museum’s collection for stories about cows and delicious local dairy products from Huron County’s past! If you are interested in finding more cow-related artifacts, you...
Eight Historical Diaries Now Available Online

Eight Historical Diaries Now Available Online

Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. Photo: Robert Watson diary, pages 8-9. Cliquez ici pour le Français The Museum’s digitization collection has grown to include scanned and uploaded eight historical diaries.  They were...
Huron County Museum Staff  Complete Henderson Digitization Project

Huron County Museum Staff Complete Henderson Digitization Project

Written by Jacob Smith, Digitization Coordinator for the Huron County Museum. The photo above is a portrait of World War II serviceman Leon Prosser. A992.1040c  Cliquez ici pour le Français 500 additional photographs of World War II servicemen have been catalogued,...
Huron County Museum Research in Action: Unidentified Military Photo

Huron County Museum Research in Action: Unidentified Military Photo

Written by Collections Assistant Noah Chapman. Recently, the Huron County Museum began the transfer of artifacts from the (now-closed) North Huron Museum. Among the items was this image of a group of World War One soldiers (object number 2023.0067.352). Unfortunately,...