This is an archived event from Culture Days 2019.
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Experience the Cannington Blacksmith and Carriage Shop
History & heritage Museum Science & technology Storytelling Tour
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Location
former Village of Cannington
Cannington / Brock, ON
Directions: Located just south of the main intersection on the Village. Across the street from the Township of Brock Administration Building, where there is free parking.
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
Tour the 1875 Cannington Blacksmith and Carriage Shop, located on its original site in the downtown of the former Village of Cannington. Restored by the Cannington Historical Society, the shop is filled with artifacts from this by-gone era. See where seven tradesmen plied their trades, two blacksmiths, a ferrier, a carpenter, a wheelwright, a painter and salesman/bookkeeper. Among the exhibits is The Stevenson Cart that was manufactured in the Village and featured at the CNE in 1902; a buggy and a cutter. An assortment of blacksmithing tools are displayed. Costumed interpreters are on site to explain the importance of this business in a pre-auto time.
Links
- read more canningtonhistoricalsociety.ca
Organizer
Cannington & Area Historical Society
The Cannington Historical Society was incorporated in 1977, to preserve the local history of the people, events and places in the former Village of Cannington (1878). The Village was dissolved by the Regional Municipality of Durham Act and amalgamated into a new Township of Brock. The Society's mission is to research, collect and preserve local historical information, stories and area artifacts. It also has a mandate to preserve heritage buildings, such as the Blacksmith and Carriage Shop, And, saving by relocating / restoring structures representative of the area to the Cannington Historical Museum located in MacLeod Park to depict Cannington's development since the 1830's.. The Museum has in its collection an 1830 log Cabin, 1860 log house, 1900 driving shed, 1906 Canadian Northern Railway Station, 1929 caboose and 1934 Loyal Orange Lodge hall. The Museum is open seasonally on weekends from Victoria to Labour days, or by appointment.