Alderburn Farm Transitions
THIS SMALL STORY OF ALDERBURN FARM assumes a lot. The red barn building itself is the focus inside a larger view of the people who influenced the work of the farm with brief notations about some the people who influenced it most. The blog posts straddle many periods of growth and change over about a hundred and fifty years. Most of the details are resourced from online material and much of it proves rumour as well. However, verbal records from the family and friends may prove otherwise yet.
THESE REFERENCES
illustrate some of the events that correspond with the farm timeline and may have influenced life and work at the farm or provide a continuing record:
Then & There Events: lists events that are relevant to the general history of Alderburn Farm.
ARCHIVES:
Ongoing Photo Archive: Flickr Alderburn Farm
A photographic archive describing current events (mostly scenery in fact) is in development at all times. There are presently five-hundred photographs of the farm and its surroundings and some of them can be viewed here at the Flickr site: Alderburn Farm Archives:
butter shed sepiatone on the dairy road
butter shed today
Note: there is a freight train passing
Archives and Collections Society
A not-for-profit organization dedicated to marine conservation research and education
University of Guelph: The Collections – Agricultural History & Rural Heritage
also:
Rural History Resources
HISTORY ESSAYS & DOCUMENTATION:
Canadian Heritage Gallery: CANADA: A Celebration of Our Heritage
Chapter 1: The Giant Land
(… Many heritages would join in shaping Canada’s history, in all its sweep and rich variety… )
Government of Canada: The Evidence Web
Come and explore original examples of Canadian History from Library and Archives Canada. There are hundreds of historic items and many essays for you to discover, with many more to come!
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Provinces & Territories: Ontario
Ontario Heritage Connection
Connecting to timelyinformation on issues across Ontario
The Archives of Ontario Celebrates Our Agricultural Past: Settling the Land
(… Agriculture was practised in Ontario long before the creation of records to document it. …)
Ontario Office of Francophone Affairs
(… Until the mid-19th century, Francophones were the majority population in Ontario. …)
The Black Canadian Experience 1834-1914: Flight Freedom Foundation
(… Black Canadians were in Canada from the earliest times, initially as free people, then as slaves….)
The Canadian Encyclopedia: Immigrant Children
(… On 14 April 1826, an obscure police magistrate in London, England, Robert Chambers, told a committee of the British Parliament dealing with emigration: “I conceive that London has got too full of children.” …)
Ontario Immigration: Discover Ontario
(… People have lived in Ontario for at least 7,000 years. Ontario has many distinct native cultures and languages….)
CANADIAN HISTORY IN THE MEDIA
CBC Digital Archives
Extensively archived multimedia from the vaults of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation
The National Film Board
For 70 years, the National Film Board of Canada has been breaking ground in socially-engaged documentary, auteur animation, alternative drama and more!
CJRT 96.7 FM (local)
Centred in Renfrew, from Barry’s Bay to Carleton Place to the Pontiac – Community Radio is on the air LOUD and CLEAR!
MONDAY 7 PM – BALLADS OF A BLINDMAN WITH YOUR TOUR GUIDE KERRI
Impressive music library
