Peel Heritage Complex
Encyclopedia
The Peel Heritage Complex is a museum/art gallery/archives for the Peel Region
, located in Brampton, Ontario
, Canada
.
Originally the Peel County Court
house, Brampton Jail
(also known as the Peel County Gaol), and registry office, this complex hosts award-winning exhibition. It is located in the Downtown corridor, across from town's City Hall.
More than just well preserved buildings, it's a place where the past, present and future are linked in dynamic displays and explored through creative programming and research.
In March 2010, the Peel Heritage Complex closed for extensive renovations and expansion. The spaces are set to reopen in spring 2012, with significantly larger and include more public space. It was originally scheduled to reopen in fall 2011.
, Alex McKinney and other citizens moved to create a historical society, focused on life in Peel County from the late 18th century to the 1930s. There was an apparent disinterest in heritage, during the immediate post-War era, and the Peel County Historical Society Association became inactive in 1957.
In February 1961, interested citizens met in the basement of the Carnegie Library
to discuss reorganization; Mrs. Carroll was elected president. Association chairman Don Featherstone and a committee (which included Russell Cooper
) met in March 1961, to establish a constitution. The County Council of Peel allowed the organization use of the basement of the old Registry Office on Wellington, for its meetings. Regular meetings began in 1962, and included an address by "Mr. Colucci", designer of the Black Creek Pioneer Village
in north Toronto
.
With aid of the Women's Institutes of Snelgrove
and Cheltenham, an art exhibition was held in an old school house, on the 3rd Line, west of Chinguacousy. Meant to raise funds for the creation of a museum and art gallery, it featured works by Geoffrey Rock, Hilton Hassell, Tom Matthews, John Agg, George Broomfield, Tom Roberts
, and items from the Bull Collection.
A temporary home for the collection was found in 1963, at the Credit Valley Conservation Authority offices. Not winterproof, organization president B. Harper Bull expressed hopes that the location would be a forerunner to a larger, permanent museum, beyond the Belfountain Conservation Park. Thousands attended the location, available only on summer weekends, staffed by members of the North Peel Women's Institute.
In 1963, the organization became an affiliate of the Ontario Historical Society oncemore, and displayed during the fall at the International Ploughing Match, held in Caledon
by Colonel Conn Smythe
. The society tried to gain access to Hawthorne Lodge, the original home of the Bull family, on what is now Kennedy Road. Enlisted to help was the founding President of Trent University
, Thomas H. B. Symons, who is the "custodian" of the Bull Collection. Funds were not then available, but Symons provided various rural artifacts from Peel, some of which have been restored and displayed.
Peel County Council passed a 1966 resolution, stating that the Registry Office be vacated by county employees, and be available for the society to set up a museum.
The official opening took place November 17, 1968, featuring professional designed exhibits and displays, "a very fine variation from the more frequently encountered county museums", according to a 1973 text on the Society. Museum displays focused on the rural past and technical present of the area. The gallery's initial exhibit was of Brampton watercolourist Clifton Train, and Alton found iron-work sculpture Andres Drenters; one of Drenters' work was donated, and placed on the lawn, and later the steps of the museum.
The Peel Heritage Complex presents a variety of exhibitions with historical and cultural significance to the Peel community. In the Region of Peel Museum, visitors can travel from early Aboriginal settlements through the Jet Age, all within the walls of an historic Jail building. Artifacts, archival documents, interactive elements and hands-on activities tell “The Peel Story”. Upon their 2011 reopening, the museum will have increased increased exhibition space.
The Brain Cell allowed for hands-on learning exhibits; this room will be renamed in the new museum.
Recent exhibitions of the permanent collection include All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go (clothing, 2009–2010), Arctic Zoo (Inuit art, 2007–2009), and Connections, two exhibits held in coordination with Canadians and Their Pasts CURA (Community University Research Alliance), featuring items the community is keeping for future generations of their family.
, Caledon
, Chinguacousy
, Toronto Gore
and Toronto. Included are by-laws, minutes, planning documents, land records, assessment and collectors rolls, committee records, etc.
Beyond these municipal documents, the archives collects documentary material related to the history of Peel, and the individuals and groups that have helped in developing the community. Major photography collections include newspaper photographer Russell K. Cooper, commercial photographers Cecil Chinn and Cecil Henry, the Luker family collection, and glass negative collections from Robertson Matthews, the Brampton portrait studio, and the McLeod family.
The Region of Peel Archives also houses the records of various organizations, including the Bruce Trail Conservancy.
The archives records are only available weekdays, while the reading room is also available Saturdays. The reading room offers microfilm of family history files from the William Perkins Bull collection, select area newspapers, land records, census records from 1851/52-1911, Peel County Wills and Surrogate Court records, the "Tweedsmuir histories" of the local Women's Institutes, et cetera. Various genealogical publications, such as family histories, newspaper indexes, cemetery transcriptions as well as a selection of local history books are available.
, based on a donation by Caroline Crawford.
In more recent decades, the collection has expanded to include several hundred works, from throughout the development of 20th century abstraction in Canada. The selection includes works by early movements, such as Les Automatistes
and Painters Eleven
, and contemporary figures in non-objective painting, such as David Urban and Ric Evans. Other artists noted in gallery materials include Harold Town
, Jack Bush
, Claude Tousignant
, Guido Molinari
, Ron Martin, Chris Cran
, William Ronald
, John Meredith, and Ronald Bloore; the final three in the list were once Brampton residents.
The collection includes various major works by national-level artists, designated with the Canadian Cultural Property status.
Artists mentioned in publicity for the gallery include John Anderson, Caroline Armington
, Frank Armington
, John Armstrong, Carl Beam
, George Broomfield, Alex Cameron
, Chuck Close
, Tom Dean, Mary Dignam
, Leonard J. Hutchinson, Tom LaPierre, Doris McCarthy
, David Milne
, Robert Motherwell
, Will Ogilvie
, Stephanie Rayner, Jim Reid, Jack Shadbolt
, Michael Snow
, Stanley Spencer
, Tom Stone, Andy Warhol
, and Joyce Weiland. A Tom Thomson
sketchbook is included in the collection.
Their juried art show, established in the 1970s, attracts entries from across Southern Ontario. The gallery also has the Peel Artists Series, featuring local and regional artists.
es, archaeological artifacts, historic and contemporary works of art, including paintings, drawings and sculpture, and archival documents such as photographs, government records, and maps. Staff is assisted by volunteers who perform inventory and cataloguing tasks.
Most of the artifacts in the collections were donated by Peel residents. These collections are used for exhibitions, programs and research by staff, volunteers and visitors. Each potential donation to the Complex is approved by a committee of experts drawn from various heritage backgrounds.
Numerous special events during the year also provide a great opportunity for the community to learn more about the Complex and the history of Peel through the artifacts, documents and artwork in the Complex's collections. Join us for Heritage Day in February, Museum Day in May, Kidsummer in July, and Family Day in November.
, CHIN
, and Virtual Museum of Canada
.
Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of Peel is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of Toronto: the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. The entire region is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner...
, located in Brampton, Ontario
Brampton, Ontario
Brampton is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and the seat of Peel Region. As of the 2006 census, Brampton's population stood at 433,806, making it the 11th largest city in Canada. It is also one of Canada's fastest growing municipalities, with an average...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Originally the Peel County Court
Court
A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law...
house, Brampton Jail
Brampton Jail
The Brampton Jail, also known as the Peel County Jail or more colloquially as the Wellington Crowbar Motel, is located in the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada at the intersection of Wellington and Main Streets...
(also known as the Peel County Gaol), and registry office, this complex hosts award-winning exhibition. It is located in the Downtown corridor, across from town's City Hall.
More than just well preserved buildings, it's a place where the past, present and future are linked in dynamic displays and explored through creative programming and research.
In March 2010, the Peel Heritage Complex closed for extensive renovations and expansion. The spaces are set to reopen in spring 2012, with significantly larger and include more public space. It was originally scheduled to reopen in fall 2011.
Conception and initial museum
The first attempts to create a historical society were apparently in the early 20th century; the issue went nowhere. For many years, the William Perkins Bull collection of art and artifacts was housed in the Brampton High School. In the 1950s, the Board of the school decided to renovate and redecorate, and asked the collection be removed. Bull Collection publisher C. V. Charters, Everett BriggsEverett Briggs
Everett Briggs may refer to:*Everett Ellis Briggs, American diplomat*Everett Francis Briggs, miners' activist...
, Alex McKinney and other citizens moved to create a historical society, focused on life in Peel County from the late 18th century to the 1930s. There was an apparent disinterest in heritage, during the immediate post-War era, and the Peel County Historical Society Association became inactive in 1957.
In February 1961, interested citizens met in the basement of the Carnegie Library
Brampton Library
Funded by the City, the Brampton Library is a system of public libraries in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.In the 2003 Ontario Public Library Week , the library was rebranded with a new logo, and a change in name. The system changed from the Brampton Public Library to the simpler and more direct...
to discuss reorganization; Mrs. Carroll was elected president. Association chairman Don Featherstone and a committee (which included Russell Cooper
Russell Cooper
Theo Russell Cooper is a former Australian National Party politician.He was Premier of Queensland for a period of 73 days, from 25 September 1989 to 7 December 1989...
) met in March 1961, to establish a constitution. The County Council of Peel allowed the organization use of the basement of the old Registry Office on Wellington, for its meetings. Regular meetings began in 1962, and included an address by "Mr. Colucci", designer of the Black Creek Pioneer Village
Black Creek Pioneer Village
Black Creek Pioneer Village is a historic site in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of York University and southeast of the Jane and Steeles intersection. It overlooks Black Creek, a tributary of the Humber River. The village is a recreation of life in 19th-century Ontario and gives an idea how...
in north Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
.
With aid of the Women's Institutes of Snelgrove
Snelgrove, Ontario
Snelgrove is an historic community in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, straddling the border between Brampton and Caledon centred on the intersection of Hurontario Street and Mayfield Road...
and Cheltenham, an art exhibition was held in an old school house, on the 3rd Line, west of Chinguacousy. Meant to raise funds for the creation of a museum and art gallery, it featured works by Geoffrey Rock, Hilton Hassell, Tom Matthews, John Agg, George Broomfield, Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts
Thomas William Roberts , usually known simply as Tom, was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.-Life:...
, and items from the Bull Collection.
A temporary home for the collection was found in 1963, at the Credit Valley Conservation Authority offices. Not winterproof, organization president B. Harper Bull expressed hopes that the location would be a forerunner to a larger, permanent museum, beyond the Belfountain Conservation Park. Thousands attended the location, available only on summer weekends, staffed by members of the North Peel Women's Institute.
In 1963, the organization became an affiliate of the Ontario Historical Society oncemore, and displayed during the fall at the International Ploughing Match, held in Caledon
Caledon, Ontario
Caledon is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. In terms of land use, Caledon is somewhat urban, though it is primarily rural in nature...
by Colonel Conn Smythe
Conn Smythe
Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...
. The society tried to gain access to Hawthorne Lodge, the original home of the Bull family, on what is now Kennedy Road. Enlisted to help was the founding President of Trent University
Trent University
Trent University is a liberal arts and science-oriented institution located along the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.The enabling legislation is the Trent University Act, 1962-63. The University was founded through the efforts of a citizens' committee interested in creating a...
, Thomas H. B. Symons, who is the "custodian" of the Bull Collection. Funds were not then available, but Symons provided various rural artifacts from Peel, some of which have been restored and displayed.
Peel County Council passed a 1966 resolution, stating that the Registry Office be vacated by county employees, and be available for the society to set up a museum.
The official opening took place November 17, 1968, featuring professional designed exhibits and displays, "a very fine variation from the more frequently encountered county museums", according to a 1973 text on the Society. Museum displays focused on the rural past and technical present of the area. The gallery's initial exhibit was of Brampton watercolourist Clifton Train, and Alton found iron-work sculpture Andres Drenters; one of Drenters' work was donated, and placed on the lawn, and later the steps of the museum.
Region of Peel Museum
The museum collection of the Peel Heritage Complex comprises approximately 12,000 artefacts representing the history of Peel from 4000 BCE to the 21st century. Highlights of the collection include objects associated with the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow aircraft and its design, a collection of over 360 pieces of 19th century stoneware, and a large textile collection that includes locally made quilts and over 18,000 pieces of clothing.The Peel Heritage Complex presents a variety of exhibitions with historical and cultural significance to the Peel community. In the Region of Peel Museum, visitors can travel from early Aboriginal settlements through the Jet Age, all within the walls of an historic Jail building. Artifacts, archival documents, interactive elements and hands-on activities tell “The Peel Story”. Upon their 2011 reopening, the museum will have increased increased exhibition space.
The Brain Cell allowed for hands-on learning exhibits; this room will be renamed in the new museum.
Recent exhibitions of the permanent collection include All Dressed Up With Somewhere To Go (clothing, 2009–2010), Arctic Zoo (Inuit art, 2007–2009), and Connections, two exhibits held in coordination with Canadians and Their Pasts CURA (Community University Research Alliance), featuring items the community is keeping for future generations of their family.
Region of Peel Archives
Primarily, the Region of Peel Archives collection includes municipal documents for the Region of Peel, City of Brampton, City of Mississauga, and Town of Caledon, and the former County of Peel. Also includes records from the former townships: AlbionAlbion Township, Ontario
Albion Township was a township in Peel County , Ontario, Canada. Its major population centre was Bolton. Albion Township was consolidated along with Caledon Township and the upper half of Chinguacousy Township into the Town of Caledon....
, Caledon
Caledon Township, Ontario
Caledon Township, Ontario was an historic incorporated township and is a present day geographic township in the modern Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada. The township forms the northwest section of Caledon, Ontario.- References :...
, Chinguacousy
Chinguacousy Township, Ontario
Chinguacousy Township is a former municipality and geographic township in Peel County, Ontario. In 1973, when Peel County became the Regional Municipality of Peel, it was split in half, with the northern half becoming part of the town of Caledon, and the southern half, along with the township of...
, Toronto Gore
Toronto Gore Township, Ontario
Toronto Gore was a township in York County and then Peel County, Ontario, Canada from 1831 to 1973.Toronto Gore came into existence as a township in 1831 when it was separated from Chinguacousy Township. In 1867 it became part of Peel County when that county was split from York County...
and Toronto. Included are by-laws, minutes, planning documents, land records, assessment and collectors rolls, committee records, etc.
Beyond these municipal documents, the archives collects documentary material related to the history of Peel, and the individuals and groups that have helped in developing the community. Major photography collections include newspaper photographer Russell K. Cooper, commercial photographers Cecil Chinn and Cecil Henry, the Luker family collection, and glass negative collections from Robertson Matthews, the Brampton portrait studio, and the McLeod family.
The Region of Peel Archives also houses the records of various organizations, including the Bruce Trail Conservancy.
The archives records are only available weekdays, while the reading room is also available Saturdays. The reading room offers microfilm of family history files from the William Perkins Bull collection, select area newspapers, land records, census records from 1851/52-1911, Peel County Wills and Surrogate Court records, the "Tweedsmuir histories" of the local Women's Institutes, et cetera. Various genealogical publications, such as family histories, newspaper indexes, cemetery transcriptions as well as a selection of local history books are available.
Art Gallery of Peel
The permanent collection, including over 4000 contemporary and historic works, is the largest such public collection in the region.Permanent collection
The gallery's collection originally was focused on artists of local residence and art of local subject matter. The earliest exhibits were of watercolourist George Chauvignaud, a painter from Peel in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a show of Brampton-born printmaker Caroline ArmingtonCaroline Armington
Caroline Helena Armington was an artist, Canadian born and raised, living most of her adult life in France. Towards the end of her life moved to New York City, USA with her husband, Frank Armington....
, based on a donation by Caroline Crawford.
In more recent decades, the collection has expanded to include several hundred works, from throughout the development of 20th century abstraction in Canada. The selection includes works by early movements, such as Les Automatistes
Les Automatistes
Les Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. "Les Automatistes" were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism...
and Painters Eleven
Painters Eleven
Painters Eleven was a collective of abstract artists active in Canada from 1954 to 1960.-History:...
, and contemporary figures in non-objective painting, such as David Urban and Ric Evans. Other artists noted in gallery materials include Harold Town
Harold Town
Harold Town was a Canadian abstract painter. He is best known as a member of Painters Eleven a group of abstract artists active in Toronto from 1954-1960. Town coined the name of the group, which was based simply on the number of artists that were present the first meeting...
, Jack Bush
Jack Bush
Jack Bush was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, born in Toronto, Ontario in 1909 and he died there 24 January 1977...
, Claude Tousignant
Claude Tousignant
Claude Tousignant, OC is a Canadian artist born in Montreal, Quebec on December 23, 1932.- Biography :Claude Tousignant is a Canadian abstract painter and sculptor born in Montreal, Quebec. He started his stylistic explorations in France during the early 1950s, but returned home wanting more...
, Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari, OC was a Canadian artist, known for his abstract paintings.-Biography:Molinari was born in Montreal of Italian heritage with parents from Cune, Tuscany and Naples, Campania...
, Ron Martin, Chris Cran
Chris Cran
Chris Cran is a Canadian painter, based in Calgary, Alberta.Cran's work investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed...
, William Ronald
William Ronald
William Ronald, R.C.A. William Ronald, R.C.A. (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998) William Ronald, R.C.A. (August 13, 1926 – February 9, 1998) (born William Ronald Smith, was an important Canadian painter, best known as the founder of the influential Canadian abstract art group...
, John Meredith, and Ronald Bloore; the final three in the list were once Brampton residents.
The collection includes various major works by national-level artists, designated with the Canadian Cultural Property status.
Artists mentioned in publicity for the gallery include John Anderson, Caroline Armington
Caroline Armington
Caroline Helena Armington was an artist, Canadian born and raised, living most of her adult life in France. Towards the end of her life moved to New York City, USA with her husband, Frank Armington....
, Frank Armington
Frank Armington
Frank Armington was a Canadian born and raised artist who lived most of his adult life in France. Toward the end of his life he moved to New York City, USA with his wife, Caroline Armington...
, John Armstrong, Carl Beam
Carl Beam
Carl Beam R.C.A. , born Carl Edward Migwans, made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry , to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art...
, George Broomfield, Alex Cameron
Alex Cameron
Alex J. Cameron was an English professor at the University of Dayton and the official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee from 1980 to 2002.Cameron grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame...
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
, Tom Dean, Mary Dignam
Mary Dignam
Mary Dignam , born Mary Ella Williams, was a Canadian painter best remembered as a pioneer activist for women artists.Williams was born in Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada and studied art at the Western School of Art and Design in London, Ontario...
, Leonard J. Hutchinson, Tom LaPierre, Doris McCarthy
Doris McCarthy
Doris McCarthy, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian artist specializing in abstracted landscapes.Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from , where she was awarded various scholarships and prizes...
, David Milne
David Milne (artist)
David Milne, was a Canadian painter, printmaker, and writer.- Biography :David Milne was born in the southwestern Ontario village of Burgoyne in 1882. He was the last of 10 children born to Scottish immigrant parents...
, Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
, Will Ogilvie
Will Ogilvie
William Abernethy Ogilvie, was a Canadian painter and war artist.In 1979, he was made a member of the Order of Canada.-References:* at Library and Archives Canada...
, Stephanie Rayner, Jim Reid, Jack Shadbolt
Jack Shadbolt
Jack Leonard Shadbolt, OC, OBC was a Canadian painter.-Early life:Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in 1912...
, Michael Snow
Michael Snow
Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...
, Stanley Spencer
Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Much of his work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life...
, Tom Stone, Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, and Joyce Weiland. A Tom Thomson
Tom Thomson
Thomas John Thomson , also known as Tom Thomson, was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited...
sketchbook is included in the collection.
Exhibitions
Recent exhibitions include:- Painted In Peel: The Peel Landscape by the Group of Seven and Their Contemporaries, featuring works from the permanent collection, and those of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Art Gallery of Ontario (2004)
- Site-specific exterior projection work Wyn Geleynse: The Peel Projection, by installation artist Wyn Geleynse (November and December 2009);
Their juried art show, established in the 1970s, attracts entries from across Southern Ontario. The gallery also has the Peel Artists Series, featuring local and regional artists.
Education and outreach
School programming is available at the museum and gallery, and at the schools themselves. Seniors programs, which go out to old-age facilities, feature broader history and art-related topics, not necessarily focused around Peel. In 2009, the education program had almost eleven thousand students, and almost six thousand seniors.Collections
The Peel Heritage Complex collects a wide variety of objects including: 19th and early 20th century artifacts from everyday tools and gadgets to wedding dressWedding dress
A wedding dress or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. Color, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants.- Western culture :...
es, archaeological artifacts, historic and contemporary works of art, including paintings, drawings and sculpture, and archival documents such as photographs, government records, and maps. Staff is assisted by volunteers who perform inventory and cataloguing tasks.
Most of the artifacts in the collections were donated by Peel residents. These collections are used for exhibitions, programs and research by staff, volunteers and visitors. Each potential donation to the Complex is approved by a committee of experts drawn from various heritage backgrounds.
Exhibitions
In the Art Gallery of Peel approximately eight exhibitions are featured annually, showcasing artists of Regional, provincial and national stature. Each spring, the Gallery's Annual Juried Show, the longest running adjudicated exhibition in the area, attracts artists from throughout Peel and Southern Ontario.Education
Visitors to the Heritage Complex will also be treated to interactive displays, hands-on activities, and learning opportunities throughout the building.Numerous special events during the year also provide a great opportunity for the community to learn more about the Complex and the history of Peel through the artifacts, documents and artwork in the Complex's collections. Join us for Heritage Day in February, Museum Day in May, Kidsummer in July, and Family Day in November.
Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with: CMACanadian Museums Association
The Canadian Museums Association is a national organization for the promotion of museums in Canada.The Canadian Museums Association is the national organization for the advancement of the Canadian museum sector, representing Canadian museum professionals both within Canada and internationally. The...
, CHIN
Canadian Heritage Information Network
The Canadian Heritage Information Network is a Canadian government-supported organization that provides a networked interface to Canada's heritage, largely through the World Wide Web. It aims to give access to Canada's heritage for both Canadians and a worldwide audience, by supporting the...
, and Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada
The Virtual Museum of Canada is Canada's national virtual museum. With a directory of over 3,000 Canadian heritage institutions and a database of over 600 virtual exhibits, the VMC brings together Canada's museums regardless of size or geographical location.The VMC includes virtual exhibits,...
.