THE STORY OF HENRY LANG AND THE LEGACY OF THE CHINESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY CHINESE IMMIGRATION IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY The first wave of Chinese Immigration to Canada began with the Gold Rush of 1858, followed by a second wave of labourers in the 1880s that constructed the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). By […]
FISHER-PRICE ORANGEVILLE AND THE WOMEN’S STRIKE, 1968 WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN THE 1960s The 1960s was the start of the second wave of women’s movements (sometimes called the feminist movement) in Canada, which saw peaceful demonstrations seeking equality in education and employment, access to birth control, and an end to violence against women. Girls […]
THE HISTORY OF CRICKET IN DUFFERIN COUNTY HISTORY Cricket is a bat and ball game played between two teams of eleven players at an amateur and professional level around the world. While the earliest definite evidence of cricket dates to the mid-16th century in south-east England, it is believed that the sport was played […]
INTRODUCING COLLECTING THE COMMUNITY Dufferin County, where the Museum of Dufferin (MoD) is located, is on the ancestral territory of the Wyandotte/Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Mississauga nations. In the early 1800s, the land that would become Dufferin County was settled by mostly Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants. By the mid-to late-twentieth century, immigration from non-European […]