Domtar Artifacts
The Cornwall Community Museum has a display of artifacts from the history of Domtar Cornwall Mill.
Canada Cotton Mills
Times Gone By is produced with the Cornwall Community Museum and takes a look at the city's rich history. This segment profiles Canada Cotton Mills.
St. Lawrence Brewery
Times Gone By is produced with the Cornwall Community Museum and profiles Cornwall's Rich History. This segment looks at the St Lawrence Brewery.
The Smell Of Money
Times Gone By is produced with the Cornwall Community Museum and takes a look at the city's rich history. This segment profiles our industrial past.
Cornwall, England: Tin Mines - Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite
More info about travel to Cornwall: The evocative coast of Cornwall, England, is dotted with 19th-century Industrial Age ruins. The iconic smokestacks today are the dramatic remnants of Cornwall's now-dead tin-mining industry, which just couldn't compete with cheap tin from abroad.
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Volunteering for vital museum work (24.9.2017)
Visitors to Hong Kong's 19 museums have been enjoying even better services of late, thanks to an expanded team of volunteers who are helping to run the facilities.
Volunteer Lee Choi-leung works at the Museum of History every week, conserving ancient books and other artefacts.
When I was a secondary student, I liked studying history a lot. When I first came here, I was assigned to work on the Chinese history books the Twenty-Four Histories. I felt honoured to take part in preserving historic literature.
Ad hoc assistance
The Leisure & Cultural Services Department began recruiting volunteers like Mr Lee for its museums on an ad hoc basis more than a decade ago.
Mr Lee became a volunteer in 2015.
Besides history, he said the conservation work has rekindled his interest in chemistry.
I stopped studying chemistry after secondary school. That's why I have learned a lot from my conservation work at the Museum of History.
Take the conservation of a paper artefact as an example. What materials are used to preserve it? Many factors including the temperature and light during the conservation process affect the outcome.
The more I learn, the more interest I have in conservation work.
Nurturing novices
To formalise its volunteer recruitment, the department launched the Museum Volunteer Scheme in March.
It trains participants to work in Hong Kong's museums.
Retiree George Gog is one of the scheme's new recruits.
When he first worked as a museum volunteer, his main job duties included distributing promotional leaflets and doing crowd control.
I have visited all 19 museums in Hong Kong. On overseas visits, I also like visiting museums as I can see and learn many things.
Many people visit museums. I like interacting with people. I gain a lot of satisfaction from helping others.
I feel a sense of achievement in serving the department with what I have learned from my training.
The department has recruited more than 600 volunteers through the scheme so far.
They work with the 200 helpers who were volunteering at museums before the scheme's launch.
Recruit requirements
Participants must be adults with good communication skills.
They also have to be passionate about museum work and be willing to help others.
Job duties include receiving visitors, managing museum collections, maintaining exhibits, and organising education activities and workshops.
The department's Marketing & Business Development Director Cynthia Mo said volunteers act like a bridge between museums and the community.
They come from the community. Being museum visitors themselves, they know what visitors want.
They can tell the museums and their curators the visitors' needs and preferences.
After the volunteers learn about the museums' operation they can serve as promotion ambassadors.
Then our museums will have a stronger connection with the community.
The department may launch more recruitment drives in future to give people the chance to learn about museum operation and to allow them to participate in cultural education work. (
350 Cornwall - People Power: Moving Planet Rally
Transition Cornwall+ participated in the Cornwall Moving Planet event, September 24, 2011. Nearly 70 people showed up for the People Power: Moving Planet Rally as part of our community's contribution to the global 350.org movement. We paraded in Lamoureux Park in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, and displayed posters that imagined new ways to travel; all to show our support for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels by celebrating people-power transportation alternatives. Afterwards, participants visited Moustache Joe's and The Grind to enjoy meals and snacks made with local produce.
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The Carleton House
Times Gone By is produced with the Cornwall Community Museum and takes a look at the city's rich history. This segment profiles the Carleton House.
Diving Mille Roches in the Lost Villages Sept 2011
Diving the Mille Roches Power House a submerged former power generating station located in the Lost Villages near Cornwall Ontario. This site was flooded along with several villages in the 1950's during the construction of the St Lawrence Seaway. On this dive we utilized scooters to access the site during a 150 minute dive. Some of the trees removed from the site are visible at the end of the video.
England's Cornwall
Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide | Check your local public television station for this Rick Steves’ Europe episode or watch it on The far southwest of England is a world unto itself, with a persistent Cornish culture. We'll explore a world of flowers springing from towering hedges, a tin-mining heritage going back to biblical times, salty pirates' towns and fishing villages, and the Land's End of England. Then, side-tripping deep into the vast and mysterious Dartmoor National Park, we'll hike to forgotten stone circles and chase wild ponies.
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Trevarno Garden Museums Cornwall.wmv
The Trevarno gardens is a great place to visit in Cornwall. Once through you arrive at the Garden Museum and Toy Museum. Plenty to see and in the Toy section you can relive your childhood. A small walk to the main house brings you to the Soap Museum
I walk the bridge in Cornwall Ontario - May 2013
I walk the bridge in Cornwall Ontario - May 2013
Update Bridge Demolition Cornwall Ontario May 2015
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Introduction to the Creation Science Centre in Cornwall Ontario
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La Plata, Missouri USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE
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Fingal's Cave | Tales from the Trails | Ep. 10
We challenged Feather and the Wind to find the best stories on our 4-day Magical Mull tour. In this episode they take a boat ride to Iona; discover the history behind Iona Abbey; get up close with some cute Highland cows; and land on the incredible Fingal’s Cave.
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Exploring a Haunted Old Creepy Jail! (Bodmin Jail!) (PART 1)
When i was in Cornwall we went to Bodmin jail!
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The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visit Kentucky
As part of the last leg of their US Tour, The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited Louisville, Kentucky, where they received a warm welcome from the local community.
Cornwall Torch Relay Part 3.wmv
A slide show of Photo I Took During the Cornwall Torch Relay Dec 14 2009 Made For the Torch Handlers From Myself (Sylvie) GO CANADA GO HISTORY WAS MADE HERE TODAY IN CORNWALL ONTARIO