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Category: Local Personalities

A 1939 photograph of Estelle Cuffe Hawley
March 8, 2022March 14, 2022stcmuseum

The Remarkable Estelle Cuffe Hawley

February 6, 2021February 3, 2021stcmuseum

General Tubman: St. Catharines, 1858 – Part I

November 18, 2018February 12, 2019stcmuseum

We Did Our Bit: WWI Exhibition Favourites Part 5 – Olive Weller’s Travel Diary

September 6, 2017September 7, 2017stcmuseum

One Dominion: On the Path to Confederation

February 12, 2017April 5, 2022stcmuseum

Narratives of Fugitive Slaves – Part 2

October 27, 2016October 17, 2016stcmuseum

Betty Lampard: St. Catharines’ first drama critic

October 24, 2016October 17, 2016stcmuseum

St. Catharines’ own historic election

A brown book spine reads Twelve Years a Slave in gold coloured letters. The book is faded and worn.
October 12, 2016October 18, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Solomon Northup

October 11, 2016October 17, 2016stcmuseum

Three Marys, Leading the Way

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016stcmuseum

Ask Alicia – John N. Jackson

October 5, 2016October 7, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Lt. Col. Frank Case McCordick

October 3, 2016October 17, 2016stcmuseum

Lillian Phelps: St. Catharines’ own suffragette

September 28, 2016October 7, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Air Commodore Leonard Joseph Birchall, Savior of Ceylon

September 21, 2016September 23, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Neil Edward Stevens

September 14, 2016September 23, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – John Charles Rykert, K.C.

September 10, 2016September 11, 2016stcmuseum

The Emotional Power of a Spirit Walk

September 7, 2016September 23, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Charles Blisset Millner

August 31, 2016September 23, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Frank Edward Poynton

August 30, 2016October 17, 2016stcmuseum

Gwendolyn Mulock: St. Catharines’ first female doctor

August 24, 2016August 26, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – George Keefer

August 12, 2016August 26, 2016stcmuseum

Ask Alicia – Notorious Criminal or Local Folklore?

August 10, 2016August 26, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – C. Bruce Hill

August 3, 2016August 3, 2016stcmuseum

Wilson Morningstar’s Blacksmith Shop

August 3, 2016August 26, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Mary Cameron Burgoyne

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Dr. Heime Geffen

July 13, 2016July 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – John Kretz

July 6, 2016July 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Harry J. Carmichael

June 29, 2016July 20, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Oliver Phelps Esq.

June 22, 2016June 27, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Charles Complin

May 25, 2016June 21, 2021stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Dr. Lucius Oille

April 27, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Robert Stanley Kemp Welch O.C., Q.C., LL.D., O.St.J., O.L.J.

April 20, 2016October 18, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – James S. Smiley

April 13, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Sydney George Chambers

April 6, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Albert Adams

March 30, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Alexander Muir – Muir Bros.

March 23, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Charles and Edith Annie Draysey

March 16, 2016May 10, 2016stcmuseum

Know Your Neighbours – Richard B. Wright

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

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

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