The Canada Farmer, 1864
by Diana Macdonald While doing research in The Canada Farmer, a fortnightly news journal printed in Toronto, from 1864 (slowing…
Category: Barn History (page 3)
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.
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…
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…
Traditional Barns in Quebec: Part 2 of 2
by Arthur Plumpton, member of OBP The genesis of nineteenth century traditional barns Part 1 looked at the traditional…
Traditional Barns in Quebec: Part 1 of 2
by Arthur Plumpton, member of OBP You may have wondered about the architectural similarities and differences amongst heritage barns in…
The Old Barn Model: The Final Product (Part 3 of 3)
by Hugh Fraser, OBP President for 2023-2024 In the first blog of this series, I described my serendipitous meeting with…
The Old Barn Model: The Swing Beam Barn and Its Challenges (Part 2 of 3)
by Hugh Fraser, OBP President for 2023-2024 In the first blog of this series, I described my serendipitous meeting with…
The Old Barn Model: A Serendipitous Encounter (Part 1 of 3)
by Hugh Fraser, OBP President for 2023-2024 In September 2022, I worked three days on behalf of Ontario Barn Preservation…
How to Build a Windproof Barn in 1935
Thanks to OBP’s Administrative Assistant Laura Brown for finding this amazing article in American Builder, August issue of 1935! This…