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Christmas seals.
Upstairs on the second floor the
focus is mainly on household items.
Remember those old pitchers and
basins that sat on a wash stand in
bedrooms before bathrooms became
part of every house? The museum has
a collection of 150 of these sets.
There are 330 oil lamps of every Size
and shape as well of plenty of
exquisite glassware, china and a
bottle collection.
From the kitchen of the old-time
home there is butter -making
equipment, laundry machines, sewing
machines and copper kettles.
Staff will be happy to wander
through the collection with you and
explain the origin of the items.
The museum is open daily during
July and August from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. In May, June and September it's
open the same hours on Saturday and
Sunday only. Tours, including school
tours, can be arranged by
appointment at other times. There is
no fixed admission fee but volunteer
donations are accepted to help offset
expenses.
For those not familiar with the
N. E. Hagedorn: museum founder.
Laundry machines and raw on row of
china and glass are featured on the
museum' s second floor.
area, Paisley can be reached along
three different Bruce County
highways: No. 3, heading north from
just west of Walkerton on Highway
9, through Paisley and on to Highway
21 just south of Southampton; along
No. 1, running north; and along No.
11 which heads east -west from North
Bruce on Highway 21.
The Paisley area provides some
interesting side trips along the way.
Four of the six south -Bruce
destinations mentioned in Ron
Brown's Ontario Ghost Towns and
Scenic Back Roads Atlas are within a
short distance of the village.
Malcolm is a crossroads village on
Bruce Road No. 15 a little over 20
km southeast of the village. This was
once, Brown says, a stage stop for the
early settlers. A former church and
vacant buildings remain.
Gillies Hill, east of Paisley on Bruce
Road No. 11, contains the photogenic
shells of a church and a school,
Brown relates. It was once a
crossroads hamlet for the prosperous
surrounding farm land.
Williscroft was a mill village on the
Saugeen River. Located about 15 km
northeast of Paisley it still has a few
houses and a vacant church.
Glammis, 20 km southwest of
Paisley on Bruce Road No. 15, still
has many houses but the main street
is a shadow of the prosperous
community it once was.
In their own way, the villages are
a living museum, showing how the
changes in farming and the rural
lifestyle throughout the 20th century
have changed the landscape, moving
people to larger and larger centres
and marginalizing the small villages
throughout the countryside. 0
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