It lives!

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant On March 13, 2014, we launched digital.huroncounty.ca, the end product of the Henderson Digitization Project. The website displays over 850 newly digitized images taken by Goderich photographer J. Gordon Henderson and was...

Collection Connections

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant In September, I posted a picture on the Museum’s Facebook page as an example of the WWII-era wedding photographs in the Henderson collection. What I didn’t know at the time is that the wedding dress in the picture was...

Moving pictures

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant Working with a photographic collection from a studio photographer means we have access to many instances of two or more shots taken in short succession. In essence, there are hundreds of two-frame movies available to us if...

Sixteen Trillion Pixels

By Emily Beliveau, Digital Projects Assistant 16,274,377,342,285. Sixteen trillion, two hundred seventy-four billion, three hundred seventy-seven million, three hundred forty-two thousand, two hundred eighty-five. That is the number of pixels that make up the...

Dogs of Air Training (Part 2)

In Part 1, we featured the three dogs that appeared in class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Today is a somber post about a dog that was killed by one of the guards. On February 29, 1944, a letter ran in the Sky...