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The St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canals Centre, located next to Lock 3 of the historic Welland Canal, is a leading local history museum and community gathering place, engaging visitors and building relationships with partners, while demonstrating curatorial leadership and innovative programming and exhibits. The St. Catharines Museum is dedicated to engaging visitors in the celebration of our local stories and the cultural identity and history of the City. We are a community resource that interprets, exhibits, researches, acquires, and preserves material culture and stories of St. Catharines.
March 23, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Charles and Edith Annie Draysey

March 16, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Richard B. Wright

March 11, 2016March 14, 2016stcmuseum

Ask Alicia – Why Is That Flag There?

March 9, 2016March 14, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Lachlan Ebenezer McKinnon

A black and white family portrait. A man, boy and woman are seated in the front row; two young girls stand in the back row. The family is dressed in fashions typical of the lat
March 8, 2016February 1, 2016stcmuseum

Isabella Frampton Hawken: The Original #Girlboss

March 7, 2016March 8, 2016stcmuseum

Morningstar Mill – Keeping up with the Joneses

Black and white photographic portrait of Mary Malcolmson. She has her hair up and is wearing glasses and a blouse with a lace high-neck collar
March 2, 2016March 2, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Mary Helen McKean Malcolmson

Detail of a poster, a woman is placing her vote into a ballot box while thinking of a soldier overseas, shown standing next to her in a sketch.
March 1, 2016February 1, 2016stcmuseum

Votes for Women!

February 26, 2016March 1, 2016stcmuseum

“Ask Alicia” Whitman & Barnes Mfg. Co.

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016stcmuseum

The St. Catharines Orioles

Portrait of Rev. Ball. He is seated in a chair and wearing a dark coloured suit.
February 24, 2016February 24, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Reverend Richard Amos Ball

Driver James Grant of the 49th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force
February 23, 2016February 23, 2016stcmuseum

Black Soldiers in the Great War

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Brian Joseph Cullen

February 16, 2016February 17, 2016stcmuseum

Dear Jack Hardy

Portrait of the Ball Family. The group of five women and five men are pictured outdoors, with five individuals seated in front and the remainder standing in the rear.
February 16, 2016February 18, 2016stcmuseum

Post Underground Railroad

February 12, 2016February 12, 2016stcmuseum

“Ask Alicia” – Merritton High School

February 11, 2016February 12, 2016stcmuseum

Doing our Bit: St. Catharines and the Great War Mapping Project

February 11, 2016February 11, 2016stcmuseum

NEW! Doing Our Bit: The Audio Tour

February 10, 2016February 10, 2016stcmuseum

Guest Blogger shares her faves!

February 10, 2016February 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Estelle Cuffe Hawley

The congregation of the BME Church stands on the steps and ground around the entrance to the Salem Chapel.
February 9, 2016February 1, 2016stcmuseum

Salem Chapel, BME Church and Zion Baptist Church

Photo of Ron Sexsmith playing guitar
February 3, 2016February 9, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Ronald Eldon Sexsmith

Province of Ontario Heritage Plaque describing the life of Richard Pierpoint
February 2, 2016February 2, 2016stcmuseum

Richard Pierpoint

February 1, 2016March 8, 2019stcmuseum

Journeys to America

Postcard of the Twelve MIle Creek Valley showing the old Welland Canal
January 29, 2016January 29, 2016stcmuseum

The A-Z of St. Catharines History – Introducing “Ask Alicia”

January 27, 2016January 26, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Part 52 FINAL POST – Oliver Seymour Phelps “Junius”

Spiral staircase that used to take visitors to the river bed below Decew Falls
January 25, 2016January 25, 2016stcmuseum

Morningstar Mill: The Last Dragon?

curator for a day VIP badge and white gloves from the Museum's Curator for a Day Program
January 21, 2016January 21, 2016stcmuseum

Curator for a Day

Newspaper clipping of Dallas Green's awards nominations
January 20, 2016January 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Dallas Green

A hockey player, dressed in red and white skates across the ice holding a hockey stick with a puck in front of it. The board behind the skater reads NCAA Ice Hockey.
January 20, 2016January 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Sara Bauer

January 11, 2016August 14, 2017stcmuseum

Know your Neighbours – Edwin Poole

January 11, 2016January 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt. 9 – Thomas Rodman Merritt

December 23, 2015January 11, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt. 8 – Lt. Col. William Hamilton Merritt IV, M.D.

December 23, 2015January 11, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 7 – Catharine (Cassie) Welland Merritt Pellatt

December 9, 2015January 11, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 6 – Emily Lena Merritt and Catharine Nina Merritt

December 2, 2015January 6, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 5 – William Hamilton Merritt Jr.

December 2, 2015January 6, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 4 – The Merritt Family

November 23, 2015January 6, 2016stcmuseum

Knitting Our Bit!

a painted portrait of a grey-haired William Hamilton Merritt. Merritt sits in an ornate red armchair and is wearing a black suit with a white shirt. Merritt holds a pen in his right hand in a gesture of writing.
November 19, 2015January 6, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 3: the Merritt Family

Photo collage of William Hamilton Merritt, Thomas Merritt
November 19, 2015January 6, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours Special Edition Pt 2: The Merritt Family

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