Brockville Museum #MDO5 2018
Vote for the Brockville Museum on whenyouworkatamuseum.com during the Spring 2018 competition! (Our voting day April 17th, 2018) It’s the fifth and final annual international dance off competition featuring professionals from museums, galleries, libraries and archives around the world showing off their best dance moves.
In this video, staff and volunteers at the Brockville Museum follow a pair of unsuspecting visitors through our exhibits, surprising them at every turn with their superb dance moves!
The Brockville Museum is located in Brockville, Ontario. We share the social and industrial history of our riverfront community.
-- Update: Thank you everyone for voting for us! We came in second in the Canadian round of voting. It was so much fun to create and promote this video and to view all the amazing #MDO5 videos from around the world. Thanks for your support --
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CTV Morning Live's Melissa Lamb spends the morning at the Brockville Museum. The museum features exhibits and artifacts related to Brockville's rich Loyalist history and the city's development as a waterfront community.
Fulford Place Museum, Brockville, Ontario | WPBS Short Flix
“Pink Pills for Pale People” helped construct this grand mansion. The Fulford Place Mansion in Brockville, Ontario, was built in 1901 for Senator George T. Fulford. Fulford made his fortune selling “pink pills for pale people” and at one time, was the richest man on the river. He was one of the first people to use testimonials in advertising, which became a very successful technique.
The stone for the mansion came from a quarry at Gouverneur, New York, just across the border. Inside, the house features intricately carved woodwork, all fashioned by hand.
In 1905, George Fulford became the first Canadian ever, to die in an automobile accident. His son, George the second, was only three years old at the time. George the second died in 1987. George the second donated the house to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, and his son, George the third, donated all the contents of the house.
Today, this 35-room mansion is owned and operated by the Ontario Heritage Trust and is open for tours. Original furniture, china, silverware, paintings and more are showcased throughout the house. When you come to visit, you’ll see what this house was like in 1901.
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CTV Morning Live's Melissa Lamb spends the morning at the Brockville Museum. The museum features exhibits and artifacts related to Brockville's rich Loyalist history and the city's development as a waterfront community.
Archival Footage: Dickens Festival Reading at the Brockville Museum
Archival Footage: Brockville Centennial Celebrations 1967
In 1967 Canada celebrated its 100th birthday. On June 17th, 1967, Brockville held an Old Time Country Fair on Courthouse Green to celebrate Canada's Centennial. It was very common that year for people to dress in 1867 costumes- which you can see in this video. To learn more about how Brockville celebrated the Centennial, visit us during 2017 for our special sesquicentennial exhibit, How Brockville Celebrated the Centennial.
Brockville's Mountie Hat
Curator/Director, Natalie Wood shares the story of one of the Brockville Museum's most Canadian objects: a 1965 Royal Canadian Mounted Police hat made in Brockville at the John B. Stetson Company (Canada) Limited factory. Brockville was the first city outside of Philadelphia to have a Stetson factory, and the Brockville plant was the exclusive manufacturer of the RCMP's iconic uniform hat.
Archival Footage: Brockville's Sesquicentennial 1982
This archival footage makes up part of a film called Day on the Green which captured the events that celebrated Brockville's sesquicentennial in 1982. Included is the unveiling of the new Statue of Justice on the Court House and the parade. The clip also includes footage of Sesqui the squirrel (Brockville's mascot for the year) and Brockville's Ambassador of Smiles, Con Darling!
Archival Footage: Brockville Farmers' Market 1967
Check out this throw-back to 1967! The Brockville Farmer's Market was established in 1833 and continues to operate to this day.
Have you ever seen produce like this?
For more on Brockville in 1967 (Canada's Centennial Year), visit the Brockville Museum in 2017 for our special sesquicentennial exhibit, How Brockville Celebrated the Centennial.
Brockville Tourism
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From Cruises, kayaking and cliff jumping on the river, to the many restaurants, beautiful buildings and hikes; here's a small taste of what Brockville has to offer!
Bmuse - Episode14 : How Brockville Celebrated the Centennial exhibit
2017 marked Canada's 150th Birthday, but back in 1967, the nation celebrated Canada's Centennial in a very big way! The Brockville Museum's special Canada150 exhibit looked at How Brockville Celebrated the Centennial.
In this episode we look at the history of Brockville's popular Centeen Park, and how it got its name. After a year of voting, our visitors opted for the name Riverside Park instead.
This exhibit was on display between January 3 and December 15th, 2017. This exhibit was turned into a virtual exhibit and is available on our virtual museum site:
Archival Footage: A Childhood Winter c1930s Brockville
Digitized home movies from the Cossitt Family featuring a young Tom Cossitt enjoying the snow in typical childhood ways: shoveling, sledding, and snow ball making.
Tom Cossitt (1927-1982) was the son of a prominent Brockville family. He went on to become a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada in 1972 and served until his death.
The Brockville Museum is grateful to the Cossitt Family for the donation of a large selection of home movies and to our amazing volunteers who spent hours working to digitize these archival films.
Brockville History
CTV Morning Live's Lianne Laing gets a quick glimpse into the history of Brockville.
John Adolfi Presents: 1243 County Road 2 Brockville Ontario Canada
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Archival Footage: Tom Cossitt Home Movies c1920s-1940s
This archival footage was donated to the Brockville Museum by the Cossitt Family. The video was digitized in 2013 thanks to volunteer efforts. These clips were compiled from the reels of Cossitt footage to show the life of Tom Cossitt growing up as a child in Brockville before he entered politics. To learn more about Tom Cossitt and other historical figures and vivacious ordinary people from Brockville, please visit our People of Brockville at the Brockville Museum.
Thomas Cossitt was born in Brockville on November 15th, 1923. He attended St. Alban’s School for Boys in Brockville and later graduated from Trinity College in Toronto. During his summer holidays he worked as a student reporter for the Brockville Recorder and Times. When his father died in 1962, Cossitt took over the family’s insurance business.
Cossitt entered political life in the 1950s when he served on Brockville’s town council. He supported the political campaigns of local Liberal candidates George T. Fulford and John Ross Matheson. In 1972, however, Cossitt became disenchanted with the Liberal party and switched to the Progressive Conservative Party. That year, Cossitt was elected as the Member of Parliament for Leeds County. He was re-elected in 1974, 1979 and 1980.
Cossitt became a well-known and controversial political figure. He frequently made national headlines for his criticisms of Prime Minister Trudeau and for his persistent questioning in the House of Commons. His constituents in Leeds-Grenville, however, appreciated his tireless efforts to solve their problems.
On March 15, 1982 Cossitt died of a heart attack at an executive meeting of the riding’s Progressive Conservative Party. At his funeral people spoke of a man misunderstood. His wife, Jennifer (nee Birchall), succeeded him as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Leeds-Grenville until 1988.
Ribfest 2019 Brockville, Ontario
Trying some pulled pork and blooming onion at Ribfest at Hardy Park in Brockville.
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Flag of Canada in 2015
Drapeau du Canada – Fierté du patrimoine
Célébration du 50e anniversaire du drapeau du Canada en 2015
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CTV Morning Live is officially welcomed to the town of Brockville by the acting mayor and Tourism Brockville.