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      • Researching our Collection
      • The Casey House
      • Expanding our Collection
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      • Our First Generation Room
      • The Centennial Room
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Exhibits

FIRST GENERATION ROOM
A selection of objects from our collection have been chosen to illustrate the lives of the Loyalists that fled the troubles in the rebel colonies and came to settle Upper Canada.
The gallery showcases valuable personal effects used by Loyalists or their children, that were protected from confiscation and which miraculously survived the voyage together with the crude items made with limited resources in their new wilderness home along the shores of Lake Ontario.

THE CENTENNIAL BEDROOM
 
Restoration efforts in the spring of 2008 exposed a dull grey wall behind a 1950s kitchen. Upon examination, the drab colour proved to be original and bore the characteristic darkening towards the ceiling of years of gas lighting.
 
On account of this wall the room was selected to house our furnishings that are period to the house, c. 1870-80. It is designed to reflect the lifestyle of a Middle Class family during the Centennial Year of the Landing of the Loyalists in 1884, when thousands of visitors came to Adolphustown for the celebratory events.
 
The house was built with every luxury available in the 1870s such as built in closets, a boiler system, gas lighting and most notably a washroom. As a result there is evidence that very few upgrades were done while the Allison’s lived in the house. The photograph below shows an aging Allison with his family sitting before their Queen Anne mansion; however, the fountain behind them has long since fallen into disrepair and is now filled with weeds.

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What’s New

  • PLEASE NOTE:  We are now taking camping reservations for 2022.  Please email camping@uel.ca or leave a phone message at 613-373-2196
  • PLEASE NOTE! Camping season opens on Friday May 20, 2022.
  • FOR RESEARCHERS:  We have posted a list of surnames for genealogies and family histories in our library.  To view the surnames, go to our UEL Heritage Centre & Park menu and scroll down to Library & Research Centre.
  • For general inquiries or Bay of Quinte Branch UEL contact us at 1784@uel.ca 

 

  • UPCOMING DATES OF INTEREST:
  • Bay of Quinte Branch Meeting:  Saturday May 7, 2022 at 1:30PM at the Adolphustown Township Hall  presentation on St. Thomas Anglican Church Graveyard by Jane Simpson.  This is also available by Zoom.  Contact us for the link.
  • Friday May 20, 2022: Camping opens for the 2022 season.
  • NEW POSTINGS: See our Campground Activities Calendar Page for details on tentative campground events for 2022.
  • We would like to thank the following for their support:
    The Town of Greater Napanee
    Canadian Museums Association (Young Canada Works)
    Service Canada (Canada Summer Jobs)
    Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport
  • Atura Power, Napanee
  • RTO9 Regional Tourism Organizations
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