This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Family Fun at the Schoolhouse
In-person
Museum History & heritage Agriculture TourDate and time
Location
Old Palermo Schoolhouse
2431 Dundas Street West
Oakville, ON
Directions: The old Palermo School house is located on the North side of Dundas east of Bronte Road. NOTE, traffic control barriers in the centre of Dundas only allow for access for west bound traffic into the schoolhouse! This is fine if you are travelling west, however eastbound visitors will have to turn around at the next traffic light at Palermo Park and come back west. Sorry but the price of growth... Parking is beside the schoolhouse.
Access
Free.
Offered in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
Has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
So Much Family Fun at the Fair!
Come enjoy a day full of hands-on activities the whole family will love!
🐐 Petting Farm
Meet some furry and feathered friends:
* Goats
* Bunnies
* Sheep
* Chickens
* Miniature horses and donkeys
🧺 Old-Time Laundry Fun
Step back in time and try washing clothes the old-fashioned way!
* Scrub on real washboards
* Splash in big laundry tubs
* Hang clothes on a line with wooden pegs
* Make bubbles and have a blast!
📚 One-Room Schoolhouse
* Meet the “schoolteacher” and try writing your alphabet on chalkboards
* Ring the teacher’s bell!
* Try out an old-fashioned ink dip pen and write a letter to a friend
* Parents and grandparents—look for schoolbooks from your own childhood and share your stories!
🧸 Old-Fashioned Toys & Crafts
* Play with wooden toys from long ago
🐄 Milk Mabel the Cow
Yes, really! Try your hand at milking our friendly pretend cow, Mabel.
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Organizer
Trafalgar Township Historical Society
All of the community that we know as Oakville, Ontario was once Trafalgar Township. The political boundaries of Trafalgar Township ceased to exist with the amalgamation of the Township, and Oakville in 1962.
The Trafalgar Township Historical Society was established in January 2006, founded on the work of the Trafalgar 2000 Committee, a group of citizens who organized an event to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar Township.
Our home is now in the Heritage Palermo One Room Schoolhouse, and home to our Culture day’s Events at 2431 Dundas Street West.
Palermo was one of the earliest towns in Trafalgar Township!
It once boasted:
- A foundry that riveled Massey Ferguson
- A medical school,
- two schools, two hotels, two corner stores,
- A town hall, a temperance hall,
- two churches, and their cemeteries.
Palermo was the first town in Trafalgar to install sidewalks and had the first school library and music program.
The old schoolhouse is our home and location for the Culture Days Events
The society focuses on preserving heritage homes, and local history through research, hosting speakers, a monthly open house and maintaining an images site where we have scanned over 2,000 local photos and documents that are fully accessible to the public.
Check out our online archives here; https://tths.ca/our-images
You can also visit us at www.tths.ca or email [email protected] to join us.
This event is part of a hub:
Preserving the Agricultural History of North Oakville
Trafalgar Township Historical Society Oakville, ONExperience; - The Old Palermo Country Store, Goods from now and the old days! - The Old Schoolhouse the 1 room schoolhouse, chalkboards, wooden desks, spellers, the teacher, - Life on the Farm displays of early farming life see rope windi...