by Vanessa | Jan 17, 2024 | History, Publications, Uncategorized
Orillia Waterfront Transformations By David Town, Historian, Author of ‘A Waterfront for Everyone’ Orillia Museum of Art & History Guest Contributor What a transformation our waterfront is undergoing! There’s a new road going in with better access to the...
by Vanessa | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Mona Cottage, the Residence of James Scott, Esq. 1844 – Orillia Township, Ontario By Fred Blair, OMAH Family researcher and guest contributer In July of 1844, Titus Hibbert Ware, originally from the City of Worcester, England, left England at the age of 33 to...
by Vanessa | Sep 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
OMAH is hosting a unique new event that will bring emerging musicians to the museum for an evening of live entertainment and refreshing mocktails developed by mixologist and museum assistant Mikenna Richardson. Music and Mocktails kicks off on Thursday, September 29,...
by Vanessa | Sep 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Dave Osborne, OMAH Volunteer The bridge at Highway 12 South is dedicated to Constable Willis Jacob, who died in a fatal motor vehicle collision in 1958 Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Constable Willis Jacob, age 35, a three-year veteran, reported to work as usual...
by Vanessa | Jul 5, 2022 | Publications, Uncategorized
John Ramsay and the Oro Settlers from Islay By Fred Blair, OMAH History Committee John Ramsay grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1836, at the age of 22, he obtained a lease on the struggling Port Ellen whisky distillery on the Island of Islay in Argyllshire, Scotland. ...
by Vanessa | Mar 1, 2022 | Publications, Uncategorized
OMAH Tribute – Dr. Richard (Dick) Johnston By Mary Ann Grant, OMAH History Committee There are those in our community who make a huge difference and who enhance the lives of others by their actions and contributions; Dr. Richard (Dick) Johnston is one of those...
