Barn History – Page 2 – Ontario Barn Preservation

Documenting the Loss of Old Barns in Sombra Township

Posted by Darrell Randell, OBP Member and Regional Representative A long-time volunteer at the Sombra Township Museum, the late Charlie…

GORDON BECK PHOTOGRAPHY by Claudia Smith, OBP Secretary Part 3, continued from last week … Gordon worked for the Montreal…

GORDON BECK PHOTOGRAPHY by Claudia Smith, OBP Secretary Part 1 “When people say, ‘There used to be a barn here,’…

By Emma Rutledge In this month’s blog post, we have an article written by Emma Rutledge, who is a history…

Part 1 – Exploring Farmer Tim’s Historic Barns Written by Emma Rutledge Foreword written and edited by Mikayla Barney In…

How Barn Poetry Can Uncover Canadian History By Mikayla Barney, OBP Member and Volunteer Repurposing can come in many forms.…

by Jon Radojkovic Radojkovic, OBP Director I was happy when I saw the first log barn. I had expected to…

by Diana Macdonald While doing research in The Canada Farmer, a fortnightly news journal printed in Toronto, from 1864 (slowing…

I learned to start snooping around the barns for notes and records and found that they could be in the strangest places.

By Jim Campbell, OBP Vice President, Duntroon. Thanks goes to our awesome OBP Administrative Assistant Laura Brown for finding this…