On Sunday we visited this place for the 1914 Fall Fair event. Although I could talk about the historical gardens and heritage seed preservation, really I'm just going to show you a few pictures of the place. Hope you enjoy them.
Carpet Weaver (Looks More "Historic" in Sepia Tone)
The Martin Homestead
Quilt Room in the Martin Homestead
Learning Crokinole
The game of crokinole has a strong history in the area. You can read more about it here.
Shiny Bedroom in the Martin Homestead
Indoor Toilets
These people were very well off. They didn't have to "go" outdoors.
The Blacksmith
More pictures from the Blacksmith Shop are located here.
The Most Delicious Corn on the Cob
A Helper at the 1914 Fall Fair
Rural Life
Stiltwalking
All photos belong to kbgardenblog.blogspot.com and must include that attribution plus the caption "Doon Heritage Crossroads, Region of Waterloo, Kitchener".
It is perhaps little known that the city of Kitchener used to be called Berlin. The following is excerpted from the City of Kitchener's web site:
On June 9, 1912, Berlin officially became a City and was considered to be Canada's German Capital. However, with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 came anti-German sentiment and an internal conflict ensued as the City was forced to confront its cultural distinctiveness. There was pressure for the City to change its name from Berlin, and in 1916 following much debate and controversy, the name of the City was changed to Kitchener, after the British General Horatio Herbert Kitchener who won fame during the Boer War.
8 comments:
Places like this are wonderful spots to go and visit.
Our family loves crokinole and we play it often, and Hud made Daniel a pair of stilts when we lived in the valley. They hauled them out of the shed just the other day much to the enjoyment of the neighborhood kids!
Interesting place to visit, but I am happy to be living in 2006.
Who could sleep in that tiny bed?
Zoey, now that I look at it more closely, I'm probably wrong calling it a bedroom. I think that's a fainting couch rather than a bed. It's probably not a place that anyone regularly slept in.
Wonderful photos. I love living museums like that. We have a few in our area. It's fascinating to see people reenacting those times.
I like that architecture, those red houses and especially the quilt room. Do you know how to quilt? I would like to try when it's to cold outside for gardening ;-)
Thanks for the museum tour Karen. I've been in Kitchener, some of my relatives live there. (Maybe I told you that before) That boardgame looks interesting. Have you played it a lot? Oh. I wanted to add new post on my blog but its not working...grrrrr. I can only leave comments on others blogs.
What an interesting museum tour Karen, thanks for that! I didn't know about Berlin/Kitchener! Is that the reason you speak some German, because you live in a part of Canada where lots of Germans have imigrated to?
Gorgeous photos, as always. I love the "shiny room" too--the green walls are about the same color as the walls in my kitchen, and my ceiling is about the color of the window shades.
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