Robert Hopkins has lent his 1928 Model "A" Sports Coupe to the Massey Area Museum for August. This historical auto is not to be missed!
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The purpose of the Massey Area Museum is to collect, preserve, research, and exhibit these objects which will serve to illustrate the settlement and development of the Township of Sables-Spanish Rivers and Sagamok Anishnawbek, up to 1968, the year the museum was founded.
We recognize that understanding our local heritage is necessary to gain a better appreciation of community, province, and nation. The Museum collects artifacts and documents that depict the area’s past in terms of the earliest native settlement, early exploration, and first white settlement, the part played by natural resources in our community (lumber, minerals, waterways), agriculture, education, religion, cultural achievement, manufacturing, trade and transportation, business and municipal political development. The Museum provides for the preservation of such material as well as it possibly can, and for its availability to all who wish to see it. WATCH OUR NEW VIDEO SERIES!
Students of St. Mary School came to the Museum for a visit!
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THANK YOU
Thanks to Bill McKenna and his team who have worked hard to refurbish the pointer boat that is displayed in front of the museum. "Big Red", as The Friends of the Spanish River affectionately named him, has been featured in many parades and country fairs and has logged many miles on the Spanish River.
Ed Tate, former secretary/treasurer, built it twenty years ago. The original builders of this type of boat was the Cockburn Company of Pembroke, Ontario. He was helped by the late Bill Blight, also known as "Mr. Spanish River." Other people who helped were Laval Bouchard, Tom MacFarlane , and Massey's Home Hardware. Gilles Poirier is going to help us move the boat on and off the property between the two buildings. DISCOVERY DAYS 2017 |
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The Massey Area Museum wishes to thank the following benefactors for their contributions:
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