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THE ERLAND LEE MUSEUM ON
FACEBOOK!
The Erland Lee Museum now has a
page, come check it out
We've joined the millions of people already using
FACEBOOK as a way to stay connected and make friends. Please check out the
Erland Lee Museum's FACEBOOK page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stoney-Creek-ON/Erland-Lee-Museum/9968140377
If you want to create a profile and stay in touch with
what's happening at the Lee, then simply visit
www.facebook.com!
Now on-line- Early
minute books from the Stoney Creek Charter WI, including the 1897 Constitution.
See below.
Thank you to Estelle and
Chub Baxter, to Langton Women's Institute, and to the Stoney Creek
Optimist Club for their recent financial donations to the heritage site.
History of
"Edgemont", the Erland Lee Home
The main building was first constructed in 1808 by John Lee, son
of a British ex-serviceman. James Lee and his family emigrated to
Saltfleet Township (later Stoney Creek) as Loyalists in the 1790s
in the aftermath of the American Revolution. His son, John, built the
first log cabin home on a plot of land from his wife, Mary Moore.
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The
Erland Lee Home Today
In 1972, the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario purchased
the Lee home, preserving this vintage home as an important historic
memorial to the Institutes beginnings, and to a vanished middle-class
rural Victorian lifestyle. It opened as the Erland Lee (Museum) Home the
same year, with the exterior and the 1873 additions lovingly restored to
their 1897 beauty.
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A National
Historic Site of Canada
The museum was designated in 2003 as a National Historic Site of
Canada.
[read more]
Click here for the Stoney Creek Women's
Institute minute books, now digitized for on-line research, thanks to
a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage Museum Assistance
Program.
Education Programs
Looking for something different for your school class or youth
group? Why not visit the Erland Lee Museum, a country heritage setting
located in the city? The Erland Lee Museum offers 1.5 hour and 3 hour
education programs on:
· A family tragedy: the effect of the Great War (1917)
· Pioneer Life on a Stoney Creek dairy farm (c. 1860)
· The Changing Society of Ontario (c.1900)
· Women's Empowerment (c. 1897)
We also offer birthday parties and other facility rentals.
Volunteering
Volunteers are the life blood
of the Erland Lee Museum. The museum is always looking
for help in the following areas:
· Cataloguing donated artifacts
· Assisting with the school and youth programs
· Helping in the gift shop during bus tours
· Hosting in the museum, talking with visitors
· Researching the history of Stoney Creek, the Lee family, and the
Women's Institutes
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