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“Due to popular demand, Finishing Touch: The Milliners’ Art and the Hatters’ Trade exhibit has been extended until July 4th!”

Roots in Clay: A Dundas Tradition     Exhibition at the Legislature of Ontario An Evening with the Lesslies…And Melanie King    October 6 2010    Dundas Town Hall Auditorium, 7:00 pm Where Theatre Comes to Play: 50 Years of Dundas Little Theatre    October 15, 2010 – January 16, 2011 Faces of Dundas: Come and Meet Your Neighbours    July 22, 2010 – October 3, 2010 Finishing Touch: The Milliners’ Art and the Hatters’ Trade    Exhibition: March 21 – June 13 Made in Dundas     Saturday, May 29 "Kiss Me Kate” at Stratford     June 24 Museum Book Club    Ongoing Picturesque Dundas    A reproduction (2005) of the 1896 publication Healers and Healing in the Dundas Valley

The Dundas Museum & Archives proudly announces that
Roots in Clay: A Dundas Tradition
will be exhibited at the Ontario Legislature, Queens Park

March to September 2010  
The exhibit will feature clay vessels produced and used in Dundas,
from the early, functional crocks and jugs created for daily use to
the artistic pieces of modern time. 

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An Evening with the Lesslies…And Melanie King October 6 2010 Dundas Town Hall Auditorium, 7:00 pm Come learn more about the family that unleashed William Lyon Mackenzie onto the country! Melanie King will be sharing her work on one of Dundas’ most fascinating families: the Lesslies. Melanie researched the Lesslie family last fall at the Dundas Museum & Archives in preparation for her forthcoming book and is the author of Prophets, Seers and Visionaries and The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death.

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Where Theatre Comes to Play: 50 Years of Dundas Little Theatre October 15, 2010 – January 16, 2011 From choosing plays to set design to creating costumes to casting to curtain call: for 50 years, Dundas Little Theatre is indeed where theatre has come to play in our community. Enjoy this collaborative effort between Dundas Little Theatre and our Museum.

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Faces of Dundas: Come and Meet Your Neighbours July 22, 2010 – October 3, 2010 This exhibit explores the diversity, culture and history of Dundas at both a personal and collective level and aims to tell the stories of Dundas residents through their portraits. From the life and work of James L. Grightmore, whose work years ago as the chair of the Dundas Arena Building Committee was the first seed in securing the win of CBC’s Kraft Hockeyville competition this year, to Roselle Knott, a Dundas actress acclaimed on the New York Stage, to you. This exhibit is a historical and present-day living exhibit that cannot be missed. When you come to visit, bring YOUR Dundas family photographs to be scanned and included as part of the exhibit.

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Finishing Touch: The Milliners’ Art & The Hatters’ Trade March 21, 2010  – July 4, 2010 Guest Curators, Norma Shephard, of the Mobile Millinery Museum,and John McMicking of L & H Hats, share their passion for hats in this entertaining and informative installation. At one time every Canadian city, town and village boasted a skilled milliner from whom you could purchase an Easter bonnet, mourning hat, or simple schoolgirl charmer. Men’s hats were worn as an article of clothing, not just as an accessory. A gentleman doffed his hat to a man of higher social status or age, and always to a lady and her escort. There was a hat for every occasion. A hat for every occasion. Celebrate Spring in this exhibition at the Dundas Museum & Archives.

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Kiss Me Kate at Stratford
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter
Thursday, June 24, 2010

	11:00: Leave Museum by coach bus 2:00: Kiss Me Kate at the Festival Theatre, Stratford 6:00: Dinner at the Olde Schoolhouse Restaurant, Brantford 8:30: Arrive home from Brantford (approx)
Friends of the Museum: $120 Non Members: $125 Traffic is always an unknown. All times are approximate Call the Office at 905.627.7412 to purchase your ticket

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Museum Book Club
4th Tuesday of the month from 7:30 – 9 pm.

Charlotte Gray’s Sisters in the Wilderness
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood;
Cloud Splitter by Russell Banks

These are just a few of the titles discussed by the Museum’s Book Club in the past. Group members enjoy literary enjoyment and meetings filled with new insights and stimulating conversation.

You are invited to join in! The only qualification is that you enjoy reading. There are no books to purchase. The titles read are chosen from those available through the library. They have strong historical connections.

Call the Museum at 905.627.7412 for more details.

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Picturesque Dundas…. On Sale
A reproduction of the 1896 publication

“This souvenir is issued in order to put on record in enduring form
some of the attractions of a historic Canadian town.”

These words are drawn from the preface of Picturesque Dundas, printed in 1896. The book’s pages captured community life as it unfolded that year in Dundas, Ontario.

Families look out from porches of their homes. Drivers, ready with horse and buggy, pose in front of business establishments. Choir members and sports teams focus earnestly on the camera. We understand that participation in the project was publicly advertised, with $3 charged for each photograph taken for inclusion. Facts and details of the town were added to the photos. The 2,500 volumes printed sold out.

The publication was reprinted by the Dundas Historical Society Museum in 1972. Modern day addresses were added to the original text, along with identification of group participants.

In this second reprinting (2005) modern day addresses have been updated. Page numbers, and an index, have been added. The remainder of the book’s contents, including the cover and style of binding, are reproductions of the original, “issued in order to put on record in enduring form some of the attractions of a historic Canadian town”.

Copies are available at the Museum for yourself, or for gift giving.
Members: $19.80 Non-Members: $22

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Healers and Healing in the Dundas Valley

Released in November, Healers and Healing in the Dundas Valley tells the story of the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, chiropractors and practitioners of holistic medicine who have served the Dundas community over the years. Available at the Museum. Friends of the Museum: $22.50 Non-Members: $25.00

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