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Museum Exhibitions Hours Events Background Art Gallery Archives Maps Collections Education * Boutique Publications Membership Historical Society What's New Contact Family Recollections Version française The Missisquoi Museum is owned and operated by the Missisquoi Historical Society (MHS). To report typos, errors and omissions, please send email to the webmaster.	DISCOVER YOUR MUSEUM: (available upon request) - Grades Kindergarten to 6 Available in May and June, September and October in Museum operating season. Students become acquainted with the museum through gallery exploration, games, and a related craft. This program changes on a yearly basis as it incorporates current exhibits. TREASURE HUNT: - Grades 3 to 6 Available year round. Five educational booklets for children (and adults) feature different aspects of the history in Missisquoi County including: (1) Discovering our past. How to find out about Missisquoi's history. Taking the lid off the Museum: cutting ice.. Cowansville, from village to town.. What's the history of my house? 40 years in the apple orchards... What does "Missisquoi" mean?.. Being ten years old in 1800... (2) School special! Missisquoi School Days.... The Little Schoolhouse... A Teacher's Life... French Schools.... The Man who brought the Railway to St.Armand... The Blacksmith Countryside Family Cemeteries.... (3) The Great Depression of the 1930's. The Depression Hits Quebec.... The Depression in Missisquoi County... The Depression on a Missisquoi Farm... What Can We Learn from the Depression? What do you think? Orphans in Farnham...Snapshots from a Family Album. The Presses of the Missiskoui Post at the Bottom of the River. (4) The Children of Ndakinna. Before explorers and settlers came to North America from Europe, a native people known as the Western Abenaki lived in the country around Missisquoi... Growing up in Ndakinna... Learning to Hunt... Learning family arts... The Gift of the Creator... Gluskabi and the Game Animals... How long have the Abenaki lived here?... Abenaki games.... (5) The Invasion of the Fenians. Marching Song of the Fenians "We are the Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war. And we're going to fight for Ireland, the land that we adore. Many battles we have won, along with the boys in blue. And we'll go and capture Canada - for we've nothing else to do!" The Fenians: from Ireland to Missisquoi.. The Fenians are coming! The Home Guards... The Battle of Eccles Hill... The Fenians are coming...back! A visit to the photographer... Copies of Treasure Hunt are available in French and English. Fee $0.50 per copy. WALKING TOUR OF STANBRIDGE EAST: - All age groups, all year This program consists of a walk through the historic village of Stanbridge East. It gives a sense of Stanbridge East's history through its homes, churches, its stores,its schools, its mill, its commons and its cemeteries. It suggests how people have worked, shopped, played, loved and worshipped over two centuries. Certain old landmarks and sites have disappeared. By looking closely at outbuildings, remains, and open spaces, we can recapture a sense of the forms, colours and ideas of beauty important to villagers who now rest in its several cemeteries. A century ago, many of the open spaces in the village e.g. along River street, were the sites of homes and shops. The Walking tour Booklet is available year round and is available in both French and English. Fee: $2.00 Go to top of page, visit the previous page (Collections), or the next page (Boutique).

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