Wingham Advance-Times, 1977-06-22, Page 2am Advance -Times, June 22, 1977
MUSEUM OFF ICERS—Ed Fielding continues as secretary
for the Wingham Heritage arid Historical Society, with John
Pattison serving as property committee chairman and Mrs.
I. E. Morrey continuing as president. Ross Hapilton is vice
president, Mrs. G. W. Tiffin is historian, James A,Currie
accession committee chairman and Stewart Beattie is
treasurer.
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AMONG THOSE ATTENDING the Wingham Museum's
open house June 16 was George Allen, front right, the man
who initiated the drive for a museum 12 years ago. About
150 people took advantage of the open house to view exhibits
from Wingham's past and some remained for a meeting at
which officers for the year were appointed. Seen here are
Mrs. Ed Fielding, Mrs. Stewart Beattie, Mrs. J. K. Mc-
Gregor, Mr. Allen; second row James A. Currie and Mrs. G.
W. Tiffin; in background John Pattison,
Open house draws many
tosee
• No fanfare, ribbon -cutting or
speeches marked the opening of
the Wingham Museum last
Thursday night. Nevertheless,
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some 150 people fo d their way
upstairs in the ol post office
building to look ov a a collec-
tion of exhibits from Wingham's
past. \
They were rewarded with four
, rooms of pictures, posters, signs,
china and furniture, •together
with carvings and old glove -mak-
ing and surgical equipment.
One room, the George Allen
Room, is filled with caryings of
birds, hand carved from pine and
painted by this local artist.
The museum also boasts a col-
lection of five paintings by
George A. Reid, another local
artist.
Mrs. I. E. Morrey, president of
hs toricc'I'
the Wingham and District Heri-
tage and Historical Society which
has worked to establish the mu-'
seum, cited the years spent set-
ting it up as the reason for the
low-key opening.
After working on it for such a
long time, she said, the actual
public opening was almost anti-
climactic.
The first step toward founding
the museum came 12 years ago
with the donation of $1,000 by
George Allen. Other donations of
money and artifacts followed and
eventually the society obtained
permission to use the two upper
floors in the former .post office
and went to work prepan the
building and exhibits for splay.
Though the Museum is now of-
ficially open, access will be by
appointment only until finances
displays
permit hiring of a fulltime cura-
tor,
Also, the exhibits now on dis-
play do not represent the full col-
lection, "We just have enough to
whet the appetite of the ptiblic,".
Mrs. Morrey said. More things
are on the way or have been
promised.
She told historical society
members the museum is intend-
ed to keep the older days alive.
"Young people coming up should
know what a beautiful place
Wingham and this\e9mitry is,"
she declared.
She also expressed appreci-
ation for the cooperation received
from town council and others in
establishing the museum. Coun-
cil "is receptive" .to giving the
museum the first floor ,of the
building, now used as a daycare
UP HE dOES—With a little help, Joe Walker gets on Beauty, a horse at his teacher's farm
last Wednesday. Ann Crawford, one of the mother's supervising the trip helps him as
Sherri Arm Robertson holds the horse still. Mrs. Colleen Robertson took both her morning
and afternoon class to her farm.
centre, to allow expansion of the
collection, she said. .
The society members .met fol-
lowing the open house to appoint
this year's executive. Mrs. Mor-
rey continues as president, with
Ross Hamilton as vice-president,
Ed Fielding as secretary , and
Stewart Beattie as treasurer.
John Pattison is chairman of the
property committee and James
A. Currie is chairman of the ac-
cession committee, while Mrs. G.
W. Tiffin is historian.
The accession committee is re-
.
.sponsiblnfOr screening objects of
possible interest to the museum.
Mr. Currie said pieces must be
identified as specificallyas pos-
sible. "We want things that are
part of the Towii of Wingham."
Asked by Mr. Allen whether
the museum shouldn't accept
beautiful things, whether or not
they are from this area; Mr. Cur-
rie agreed perhaps it should, but
felt space restrictions would
eventually displace items not of
historical interest to Wingham.
As an example of the availabi-
lity of historical items, Mr. Cur-
rie told of an article in The Ad-
vance -Times in which he men-
tioned one thing the museum
wanted was an original map of
the Village of Zetland. (Zetland
was just west of Wingham along
the road to Whitechurch.) •
Teeswater lawyer Andrew Mc-
Tavish saw the article, recalled
having seen such a map in an old
file, found it and donated it to the
museum, where it is- now on dis-
play
In his treasurer's report, Mr.
Beattie told society members
that while the museum has re-
ceived almost $8.000 in donations,
nearly 85,000 has already been
paid out and there are still out-
standing accounts of more than
84.000, leaving them more than
83,000 in the red.
Most of the expenditures hav,e
been for renovations to the build-
ing and it is hoped these can
eventually be recovered through
a government grant.
However, the society continues
to welcome donations toward the
continuing work on the museum.
Contributions are tax deductible
Belgrcive ersonais
Mr. and Mrs. George Johnston
and Brenda spent the weekend at
Ottawa.
Mrs. Mae Riim, Lois and Gor-
don spent the weekend with Mrs.
Keith Cartwright and family of
London. Keith Cartwright was
attending the disabled Olympic
Games for the Handicapped in
Brantford. He received a silver
medal for the Snooker games and
in a wheel chair basket ball game
he received a bronze Medal.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hibberd
attended the 50th wedding anni-
versary for Mr. and Mrs. William
Campbell in the Legion Hall in
Harriston on Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hibberd
attended the 45th wedding anni-
versary supper in Ranton Place,
Palmerston on Sunday.
Mrs. Elroy Kuntz and Peter of
Kitchener spent a couple of days
last week with her mother Mrs.
Mae Rinn.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mines of
Niagara Falls visited last Mon-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mc-
Guire.
Miss Margaret Higgins of, Lon-
don spent the weekend with her
mother Mrs. Robert Higgins.
Mrs. Clarence Hanna held open
house on Saturday in honor of her
daughter Gail, Mrs. Brian Storer
of Kitchener who was recently
married. Mrs. Leslie Storer and
Mrs. Lorne Jamieson poured tea.
Over 50 ladies called.
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Hanna were Mrs.
Leslie Storer of Kitchener, Mrs.
Robert Storer of Molesworth, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hanna, Jim and
Kevin of Lapeer, Michigan.
The Family Consumer Affairs
meeting of . the Belgrave •
Women's Institute will be held
Tuesday, June 28, at 8:15 p.m. in
the WI Hall. Mrs. James Hunter
is the convener and " the 4-H
Homemaking Club will present
skits and have exhibits at this
rrieetinr The lunch committee is
Mrs. Norman Coultes, Mrs.
Herson Irwin, Mrs. Peter Camp-
bell. Everyone welcomet,,
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Leitch and
Julie of London spent the week-
end with Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Grasby. Jeffery, Leitch, who
spent last week with his grand-
parents, returned home with his
parents on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.
George M. Johnston and Tara of
Ilderton visited at the same home
also with Mrs. Laura Johnston.
All attended the Sunday School
anniversary and chicken bar-
becue -at Knox United Church.
Mrs. Lloyd Michie is a patient
in Hamilton General Hospital.
We wish her a speedy recovery.
About 112 friends and relatives
attended the celebration of the
25th wedding anniversary of Mr.
and Mrs. Jiin Hunter at the Bel -
grave Community Centre, Sun-
day. A picnic dinner was served
at noon by the family and friends.
An enjoyable time was hadby all.
Guests attended from Troy,
Hamilton, Burford, Brantford,
Lynden and Kitchener.
Mr. and Mrs. John McBurney
visited with Mr. and Mrs. Grant
McBurney and family in Missis-
sauga and attended graduation
ceremonies at Convocation Hall,
Toronto, when Grant received an
honorary Bachelor of Science de-
gree, having attended two years
in the Survey Science program at
Erindale College, Mississauga.
Grant was sworn in June 8 as a
member of the Association of On-
tario Land Surveyors. He and his
family leave shortly to reside. in
Ottawa where he will continue in
his profession.
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