Museum Notes, 1977 (Papers and Records, 1977)
Museum Notes, 1977 is a one-page summary of the year's work of the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society in Papers and Records, Volume V (1977), page 23.[1]
Key facts
- An oral history project funded by a Local Initiatives grant recorded 168 interviews with long-time residents, and many interviewees lent photo albums for copying.[1]
- A National Museums of Canada grant paid for three more slide shows and a 29-photo exhibit called "Before My Time", shown at the McCullough Gallery; a summer grant employed four students who catalogued about 2,300 items.[1]
- Donations included three framed prints by the Lithuanian artist M. K. Ciurlionis from the Lithuanian-Canadian Community of Thunder Bay, the 1919 Reo fire truck No. 2 of the Port Arthur Fire Department, a Linotype machine from the Chronicle-Journal, and (in 1976) a flat-bed press from Consolidated Press. A 1934 fire truck appeared in Shriners', Lions' and Murillo Fair parades.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Museum Notes, 1977", Papers and Records, vol. V (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1977), p. 23. Archived: datum.locker.