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1837 Rebellion Boxes | The Scott Rebellion Box ~ An exciting piece of Pickering's history!

Completed Projects and Fundraising events by
Pickering Museum Village Foundation and partners

• 2010 completed financing the restoration of the Brougham Temperance House - over $300,000 from the Foundation.
• 2010 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Death Hydes.
• 2010 financed the display for the Scott Rebellion Box.
• 2010 assisted with the acquisition of the Scott Rebellion Box.
• 2009 assisted the Gas and Steam Club with the acquisition of lumber.
• 2009 purchased stoves for the Brougham Temperance House.
• 2009 continued the Rubber Duckie RACE, Amazing Raffle and Pumpkin Carving at the Fall Family Festival.
• 2009 partnered with the City to receive the Building Canada Fund Communities Component.
• 2009 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: The Case of the Backroom Backstab
• 2009 assisted with egineering drawings for the Waterloo Steam Engine.
• 2008 presented an honorarium to the PMV Woodwrights Guild for their assistance with the Rubber Duckie RACE.
• 2008 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: The Case of the Novel Death
• 2007 assisted with the acquisition of a fork lift truck for the Gas & Steam Club.
• 2007 established an annual Rubber Duckie RACE.
• 2007 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: It's All Relative
• 2001-2008 funded research and feasibility projects for the Brougham Central Hotel and a condition assessment of the BCH to reflect its many roles throughout time from its probable origin as a single home in 1822 through its time as a temperance hotel to the present.
• 2006 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Lights, Camera, Murder
• 2005 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?:2009 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Sounds Like Murder
• 2005 presented the City of Pickering with a cheque for $250,000 towards the reconstruction of the Redman House, Phase One of the Brougham Central Hotel Project. Pat's presentation.
• 2004 partnered with Sears for new maintenance tools for the Gas and Steam Barn.
• 2004 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Don't Say Macbeth
• 2004 moved the Drive Shed to a new location on the site to accommodate restoration of the Brougham Central Hotel.
• 2003 purchased the Harry Foster document collection and presented it to the museum village. (See The Harry Foster Collection, page 4)
• 2003 supported volunteers when they made a replica of the 1837 Rebellion Banner (See Victoria The 1st, page 3)
• 2003 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Murder Under the Big Top
• 2002 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: The Silver Chalice of Taeonostae
• 2002 partnered with Ajax Rug Hookers to create a replica of a rug in PMV collection. (See Fabulous Fake, page 6)
• 2001 partnered with Backwoods Players for Whodunit?: Lights, Camera, Murder
• 2001 funded repairs and cleaning of the 1890 reed pump organ in the Chapel
• 2001 formed a partnership with Benjamin Moore Paints to fund the interior restoration of the 1853 Bible Christian Chapel. Its interior walls, ceiling and floor were patched and painted by Foundation members and friends. New pews were constructed and finished, and appropriate lighting was donated by a local blacksmith.
• provided assistance to Bloomers and Britches, the museum village heritage gardeners. They, in return, have made substantial donations back to the Foundation.
• 2001 funded the installation of cairn and donated bell in front of the Puterbaugh Schoolhouse.
• 2000 enlisted the talents of Ajax Creative Arts to provide drawings of the buildings and produced If walls could talk, a collection of the drawings and short history of each building.
• 2000 supported printing of Town's Millennium Book Time present and time past: a pictorial history of Pickering
• funded the purchase of computer hardware and a digital camera to the museum village for cataloguing artifacts.
• 2000 invited Glendale Tennis Club to fund appropriate lighting for the schoolhouse.
• 2000 celebrated the opening of the Puterbaugh Schoolhouse, the Foundation's first major partnership project.
• obtained a grant from Canada Trust Friends of the Environment and assisted with heritage tree and shrub planting in the museum village.
• 1999 held a "Cow Plop Lottery" at the Fall Family Festival.
• 1999 brought the "Bush-Ladies" production to Pickering.
• 1997 established a Read-A-Thon which ran for three years.
• 1997 held first fundraising raffle.
• 1996 first Fall Family Festival held.
• 1996 partnered with the Town of Pickering when an early 1800s log house was donated to Pickering Museum Village by the Puterbaugh family and descendant Louise Parkes. This building, officially opened in June, 2000 as our schoolhouse.

Buildings of PMV: Beef Ring Barn | Blacksmith/Wood Shop | Bible Christian Chapel |Claremont Bandstand | Collins House
Duffins Creek General Store | Log Barn | Log House | Miller-Cole House | Oddfellows' Hall
Puterbaugh Schoolhouse | Redman House | Gas and Steam Barn
Brougham Temperance House ~ PMV Foundation's Recent Project

Pickering Museum Village Foundation
2365 Concession Rd. #6, Greenwood, ON L0H 1H0 CANADA
or Rose Cowan roseanncowan@hotmail.com

Pickering Museum Village Foundation Reg. #89629 0426 RR0001 (Pickering Village Museum Foundation | 1274905 Ontario Ltd.)

Pickering Museum Village | 905.683.8401 | 1.877.420.4666 | cityofpickering.com/museum
2365 Concession Rd. #6, Greenwood, ON L0H 1H0 CANADA
The museum village is just off Hwy. 7, between Brock Road and Westney Road in the Hamlet of Greenwood.

Website designed and maintained by Mary Cook© 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011| Editorial input from Greg Oakes, PMVF Director, 2010, 2011