Organizations: Heritage

Heritage celebrates the history of Northumberland.

European settlers joined the First Nations in the 1790s. They cleared the land and farmed it, built churches and schools, and created prosperous and self-sufficient communities.

They sculpted a man-made countryside on the gifts of the glaciers – lakes, drumlins and the Oak Ridges Moraine – as an enduring and welcoming heritage for all of us who come in their footsteps.

Events such as the Alderville Powwow, Heritage Week in February, and the Rural Ramble are some of the events that keep us in touch with our past. Our four agricultural fall fairs - in Campbellford, Port Hope, Warkworth and Roseneath - are not just composed of games and midway rides, they continue to reflect and link us to our agricultural way of life from the past.

In every municipality heritage organizations, historical societies and museums seek to preserve what is best from the past for the future. All welcome volunteers who share their passion and commitment.

Alderville First Nation

Alderville First Nation was founded during the mid-1830s as a relocation to the Mississauga Ojibway groups that inhabited the Bay of Quinte-St Lawrence River corridor in what is today eastern Ontario. Their history is rich as military allies of the British in the development and defense of Upper Canada and even before that in their conquest over "the Mohawks" some 300 years ago. Today the community is able to maintain its traditions in the area while equally participating in the mainstream economy and the broader labour market where a large number of people are busines owners, tradespersons and professionals.

11696 Second Line
PO Box 46
Roseneath, ON K0K 2X0
Phone: 905-352-3044

Website: www.aldervillefirstnation.ca
Email: dmowat@eagle.ca

Campbellford-Seymour Heritage Society

113 Front Street North
Campbellford, ON K0L 1L0
Phone: 705-653-2634

Website: www.csheritage.org
Email: csheritage@persona.ca

Canadian Fire Fighters Museum

The Canadian Fire Fighters Museum collects, preserves and exhibits artifacts that depict the history and development of fire fighting in Canada. Included is a collection of fire apparatus representing hand-drawn, horse-drawn, and motorized periods, as well as photo displays, helmets, turnout gear and tools of the trade, and a working box alarm system.

95 Mill Street South
PO Box 325
Port Hope, ON L1A 3W4
Phone: 905-885-8985

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Website: www.firemuseumcanada.com
Email: cffmph@bellnet.ca

Cobourg & District Historical Society

200 Ontario Street
Cobourg, ON

PO Box 911
Cobourg ON, K9A 4W4
Phone: 905-377-0413

Website: www.cdhsarchives.org
Email: archives.cobourg@bellnet.ca

Cobourg Museum Foundation

128 Durham Street
Cobourg, ON K9A 2M2
Phone: 905-372-6258

Website: www.northumberlandheritage.ca
Email: joan.chalovich@bellnet.ca

Dorothy’s House Museum

3632 Ganaraska Road
Campbellcroft, ON L0A 1B0
Phone: 905-797-2247

Email: ronald.getz@sympatico.ca

East Durham Historical Society

P.O.Box 116
Port Hope, ON L1A 3V9

Phone: 905-797-2247

Website: www.porthopehistorical.ca
Email: ronald.getz@sympatico.ca

Friends of Presquile

Phone: 613-475-1688

Website: www.friendsofpresquile.on.ca
Email: a.careless@utoronto.ca

Heritage Alnwick-Haldimand

Website: www.graftonvillage.ca/lacac.html
Email: waltlued@eagle.ca

Kawartha Lakes Spirit Walks

The Victoria Inn
Gores Landing, ON K0K 2E0
Phone: 905-342-3261

Website: www.eagle.ca/VictoriaInn/eco/walk.htm
Email: VictoriaInn@eagle.ca

Marie Dressler House Museum

212 King Street West
Cobourg, ON

Website: Marie Dressler Film Festival
Website: Marie Dressler

Memorial Military Museum

226 Albert Lane
Campbellford, ON K0K 1L0
Phone: 705-653-4848

Memory Junction Museum

60 Maplewood Street
P.O. Box 294
Brighton, ON K0K 1H0
Phone: 613-475-0379

Website: www.memoryjunction.netfirms.com
Email: re.bangay@sympatico.ca

Municipality of Port Hope Historical Society

P.O. Box 16
Port Hope ON L1A 3V6
Phone: 905-797-2247 or 905-342-2657

Website: www.porthopehistorical.ca
Email: info@porthopehistorical.ca

Proctor House Museum

96 Young Street
Brighton, ON
Phone: 613-475-2144

Website: http://www.proctorhousemuseum.ca/
Email: info@proctorhousemuseum.ca

Roseneath Carousel

Enjoy a ride on a C. W. Parker museum-quality, restored forty horse and two boat antique wooden carousel built in 1906 in Abilene, Kansas - nostalgic music provided by a 1934 Wurlitzer Band Organ complete with paper rolls! Located, owned and operated since 1932 by the Roseneath Agricultural Society inside a heritage designated, sixteen sided wooden building on the Roseneath Fairgrounds.

9109 County Road 45
Roseneath, ON
Phone: 905-352-3778

Website: www.roseneathcarousel.com
Email: carousel@eagle.ca

Rural Ramble Farm Tour

Ramble through the scenic hills of old Northumberland and bring the whole family to enjoy this award-winning, self-guided, country driving tour of family farms and rural attractions. Come sample our country hospitality that has made us a summer tradition. Get your passport early and plan your personalized touring weekend.

Contact: Leah Murry at leah.murray@sympatico.ca.

Phone: Toll Free 1-877-461-3276 or 905-344-7601

Website: www.ruralramblefarmtour.com

Save Our Heritage Foundation

Brighton, ON