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Blog – All things Ontario Barns (page 3)

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Rising Leviathans:

How Barn Poetry Can Uncover Canadian History By Mikayla Barney, OBP Member and Volunteer Repurposing can come in many forms.…
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Posted on: January 5, 2025 Last updated on: January 5, 2025 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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Haunted Barns! Part 2

PRESENCES INSPIRE PRESERVATION by Peter Roe It has often been noted that ghosts haunt any location where life has existed,…
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Posted on: October 30, 2024 Last updated on: October 14, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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Haunted Barns! Part 1

by Richard Palmisano. Nothing defines a farm from any other property then that of the majestic barn. The command-and-control centre…
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Posted on: October 14, 2024 Last updated on: October 14, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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A Great Drive to See Log Barns  

by Jon Radojkovic Radojkovic, OBP Director I was happy when I saw the first log barn. I had expected to…
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Posted on: September 3, 2024 Last updated on: September 3, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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The Canada Farmer, 1864

by Diana Macdonald While doing research in The Canada Farmer, a fortnightly news journal printed in Toronto, from 1864 (slowing…
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Posted on: August 12, 2024 Last updated on: September 3, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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Barn Records and History

I learned to start snooping around the barns for notes and records and found that they could be in the strangest places.
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Posted on: July 2, 2024 Last updated on: September 3, 2024 Comments: 1 Written by: ONTBarn
1923 Film Log Construction Snip

Century-old Film of Early Log Construction

By Jim Campbell, OBP Vice President, Duntroon. Thanks goes to our awesome OBP Administrative Assistant Laura Brown for finding this…
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Posted on: June 26, 2024 Last updated on: June 27, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
Lang Pioneer Village Log Barn Detail

Building a Log Barn in 1840’s Nottawasaga

by Jim Campbell, OBP Vice President, Duntroon. In the early 1900’s my great-great-grandfather, Donald Blair, with only a Grade 3…
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Posted on: June 3, 2024 Last updated on: June 3, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
Pedlar People Hay Trolley

Hay Trolley

Hay Trolleys in the barn and restored as a collectors piece.
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Posted on: May 6, 2024 Last updated on: June 3, 2024 Comments: 2 Written by: ONTBarn
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The Return of the Barn Swallows

Excerpts of an email to OBP by member Ted Spearing, edited by Jim Campbell I’m writing back in response to…
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Posted on: April 1, 2024 Last updated on: March 23, 2024 Comments: 0 Written by: ONTBarn
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