MARATHON, ON – Congratulations are in order as the Marathon District Museum was successful in their efforts to continue on to Round 2 of the Aviva Community Fund contest and their piece of $1 Million dollars that will be shared among winners of the 2013 initiative! [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Chantal Gingras, Intern at the Marathon District Museum has enterred the museum into the Aviva Community Funds contest again this year and is hoping area residents will take the time to click to better last year’s 14th place finish. For 2013, there’s ONE MILLION [Read more]
GREENSTONE, ON – The Municipality of Greenstone has accepted a bid to purchase its only designated heritage building, the Ukrainian Church/Museum. Located at 523 First Street East, Geraldton Ward, the building dates back to about 1950, and has not functioned as a Roman Catholic Church for [Read more]
Article/Photos courtesy Schreiber Railway Museum SCHREIBER, ON – August 1st the Schreiber Railway Museum hosted a Family Picnic partly as a fundraiser, but mostly as an event to showcase the museum. Local talent performed throughout the event ensuring there was never a dull moment and [Read more]
Faced with the financial challenge of moving with the film industry to convert to a digital format, a Collaborative consisting of the Town of Marathon, the Marathon Library, the Marathon & District Museum and Marathon Theatre, was formed in 2012. The Collaborative envisioned an underutilized [Read more]
Submitted by Chantal Gingras MARATHON, ON – The Marathon Museum has just been reopened and has a very small budget. It was closed due to flooding and many of the artifacts collected to date have been kept at a different location while repairs to the building were taking place. It would [Read more]
Photos courtesy April Robinson MANITOUWADGE, ON – Saturday, September 23rd the Golden Age Club quickly filled as OntarioNewsNorth.com Editor Karina Hunter was Master of Ceremonies, narrating the first, Threads – Your Community Closet Fashion Show, organized by volunteer Donna [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Threads, a used clothing and housewares store whose profits benefit the Manitouwadge Museum is holding thier first fashion tomorrow and anticipation is growing as volunteers gathered yesterday for a dress rehearsal at the Golden Age Club where the event is being held. [Read more]
Along the Shore Line Article/Photos by Mauricio Flores TERRACE BAY/SCHREIBER/NIPIGON, ON – For the past two months, the public libraries in Terrace Bay, Nipigon and Schreiber, as well as the Schreiber Railroad Museum, the Schreiber Historical Society and the Heritage and Tourism Committee, [Read more]
Manitouwadge Museum News by Melissa Gionet MANITOUWADGE, ON – Saturday July 3rd, 2010 the Manitouwadge Museum hosted their 2nd Annual Hillbilly Days. Despite a heavy downpour of rain just prior to starting we decided to go ahead with events as planned and keep our fingers crossed that the [Read more]
