Education in Eramosa:
Part 1 – Exploring Farmer Tim’s Historic Barns Written by Emma Rutledge Foreword written and edited by Mikayla Barney In…
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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.…
Canadian Barn Reference Book List
Contributed by Claudia Smith Secretary OBP If you are a barn lover who likes reading about old barns – their…
Haunted Barns! Part 2
PRESENCES INSPIRE PRESERVATION by Peter Roe It has often been noted that ghosts haunt any location where life has existed,…
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…
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…
The Canada Farmer, 1864
by Diana Macdonald While doing research in The Canada Farmer, a fortnightly news journal printed in Toronto, from 1864 (slowing…
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.
The Sad Remains of a Barn in Southern Ontario
by Laura Brown, OBP Member and Our Stellar Volunteer Hello, my name is Laura Brown. I took these photos of…
Worked at Well: The Stable Pump
by D. B. McCowan, P.Eng. (bmccowan@netrover.com) An old wooden pump sitting in Bill McCowan’s (1923-2018) barn in Pickering probably came…