Tag Archives: Oshawa Museum

Archives Awareness Week 2021

Posted on April 5, 2021 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

Spring is here and what a fabulous way to celebrate the new season than by celebrating the amazing archival collections in our communities. The Archives Association of Ontario has designated this week, April 5th to 9th, as Archives Awareness Week … Continue reading →

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Implicit Bias and the Oshawa Museum’s Archival Collection

Posted on December 11, 2020 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist This post was originally published on the Oshawa Museum’s Blog, December 4, 2020. What is implicit bias?  The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State  University defines it as such: also known … Continue reading →

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Canadian Nursing Sister in WWI – Nursing Sister Emsley

Posted on November 4, 2020 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist at the Oshawa Museum Throughout history, women have always played a role in warfare generally working to nurse the wounded.  In Canada, nurses had served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps since the 1885 Northwest Rebellion … Continue reading →

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Connecting the Past with the Future

Posted on April 6, 2020 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist at the Oshawa Museum What a surreal time we are currently living through. In the not to distant future, historians will study this time and those of us who collect history can help those future historians … Continue reading →

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Who Was John Baker?

Posted on February 27, 2020 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist – Oshawa Museum This article was originally posted on the Oshawa Museum Blog in honour of Black History Month, January 25, 2019. John Baker is an important part of Oshawa’s history, even thought it is entirely … Continue reading →

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General Motors of Canada – Oshawa

Posted on December 13, 2019 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist, Oshawa Museum This month marks the end of an industrial era in Oshawa. By the end of day on Friday, December 20, 2019 the last vehicle will have rolled off the assembly line at General Motors. … Continue reading →

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Christmas Wishes From Overseas

Posted on December 5, 2019 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Jennifer Weymark, Archivist, Oshawa MuseumThis article originally appeared in the Oshawa Express, Dec 21, 2011 In 2011, the archives acquired four Christmas cards sent from an Oshawa man serving overseas during WWII. Pte. Earl Hann was overseas serving as a … Continue reading →

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Jack Humphreys – The Story of a Veteran of Two Wars

Posted on November 7, 2019 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

Written by Jennifer Weymark – Archivist, Oshawa Museum Jack Humphreys was born on September 15, 1879 in Newton, North Wales. For many who lived in Oshawa in the late 1970s, Humphreys was known as one of Oshawa’s oldest citizens. Each … Continue reading →

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This Months Header

Posted on July 25, 2019 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

This header comes to us from the Lowry Collection. This collection features a series of images taken in Oshawa’s Lakeview Park in the 1930s. The photographs provide researchers a glimpse into the activities at the park in the decade after … Continue reading →

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Lest We Forget – Profiling Alfred Hind

Posted on November 1, 2018 by durhamregionareaarchivesgroup

By Lisa Terech, Community Engagement Coordinator – Oshawa Museum This article has been edited from what originally appeared on the Oshawa Museum Blog.  There are two Veteran’s Plots in Oshawa’s Union Cemetery: World War I and World War II.  Looking … Continue reading →

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