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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Eisenbuch Museum popular spot for visitors
(Continued from .page 11)
house displays old fashioned rooms
as they were years ago; living
room, dining room, bedroom,
kitchen, music room and a sew-
ing room with spinning wheels,
sewing machines, old fashioned
quilts and embroidery pieces; a
display of stuffed birds, the
largest of which was donated
by the Carriere family, and
contains many birds which are
now extinct.
Building Number two was the
old barn and drive shed where
the minister kept his horse and
buggy. Often a cow and some
chickens were kept there too,
as was the custom of the day.
Now this building is set up to
represent an old Country Store
and displays a variety of goods
that one would expect to see in
a general store of the 1800's.
There is a shoe department with
old fashioned •shoes - and equip-
ment used by a shoemaker for
the making and repairing of shoes
Next to the shoe store is a
waiting room. You enter through
doors taken from the Balmoral
Hotel, which was built in the
late 1800's by Narcisse Cantin,
at St, Joseph's (eight miles north
of Grand Bend.)
The Balmoral Hotel was dem-
olished in the early 1900's, thus
ending the dram of Mr. Cantin,
who hoped to have a canal built
from Port Stanley to St. Joseph's.
Mr. Cantin is sometimes called
the father of the St. Lawrence
Seaway. Glass in the door to the
entrance to the Hotel was import-
ed from Scotland and has the
picture of the Balmoral Castle
engraved in the glass. The pres-
ent Queen of England and the
Commonwealth still spends a part
of her holidays in this castle.
The door is now a part of the
Museum. It was from this door
that the Balmoral Hotel got it's
name.
Also in this building you will
see many old family Bibles,
some in German and French, one
dating back to 1795 - and also
a collection of clocks, clothes,
china and glassware.
Displayed in building number
three is a large collection of
small farm tools along one side
wall. There is a hearse which wa
used by Stephenson and Son,
Ailsa Craig, in the late 1880's4
Also stored here is a 1925 fire
engine, which is owned by the
Bluewater Shrine Club, is in fine
running condition and is used by
the Shriners in parades, etc.
Here also is a cart used by Nar-
cisse Cantin, and an ancient
buggy, etc.
The upstairs of this building
houses many items of household
equipment, washing machines,
churns, stoves, cradles, baby
buggies and an old fashioned
bathtub.
In building number four, is a
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large display of farm imple-
ments; a reaper, a wooden hand-
made hay rack dated 1878, an
iron scraper used to haul gravel
in 1880 (drawn by four horses),
a two -wheeled oxcart, etc.
Upstairs is a good selection
of the smaller farm implements
such as a fanning mill, ox plow,
wooden hand -made harrows,
etc., as well as a harness shop,
a blacksmith shop, 'tools for
making maple syrup such as
hand -carved spiles and buckets,
and a set of veterinary equipment
used by the late 1, M, Young in
1900 when he first started pract-
ice in Cil Springs.
THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1971
Building Number five is the
Mary Ellen Memorial Chapel.
Building number two was rep-
aired and set up in 1961 and
Building number three was added
the next year. Number four was
built in the fall of 1963. Both
numbers three and four are attach'
ed to Number two and painted a
bright red with EISENBACH MUS -
EUM in white letters along the
side.
Arranged in various parts of '
the building, the visitor will find
hobby displays of pipes, coins,
watches and jewellery and many
individual articles from individ-
ual donors.
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