Ontario Heritage Sites
This castle located in Hamilton and previously occupied by politician Richard Beasley, was created in a combination of classical and Italianate architectural styles.
What is Dundurn Castle.
This geological treasure in southern Ontario presents bumpy red and white rock that formed from an ancient sea 450 million years ago.
What are the Cheltenham Badlands
Opened in 1984, this museum, founded by George and Helen Gardiner, houses a large collection of ancient American artifacts and European pottery and porcelain.
What is the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
This 16 Branch heritage organization runs a shadowing program for emerging heritage professionals.
What is ACO
This Asbestos fire curtain displays a landscape composition with bordering treelines, and originates and lives in which heritage location?
What is the Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre
This Post office located in Toronto is the oldest purpose-built post office in Canada, and currently serves as a post office Museum
What is Toronto’s First Post Office
This evil-named monument sits in the Minhinick, LeFeuvre-Chupac and Schneider Properties, and is often associated with a flowerpot.
The Devil’s Monument: Minhinick, LeFeuvre-Chupac and Schneider properties/Flowerpot
This museum located in Toronto allows you to STEP into the past or future, holding a 15,000 object collection
What is the Bata Shoe Museum
This Provincial Heritage Organization has a 3d grammatory project that showcases 3d models of ships
What is Save Ontario Shipwrecks
This 1823-1854 heritage item has a partial bowl, and was supplied by the Ford company to the HBC.
This heritage center was the home and studio of Canadian landscape artist, writer and educator Doris McCarthy (1910-2010), and currently programs artists to live in residence as they create art.
What is fools Paradise – The Doris McCarthy Residence Centre.
This island-owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust- boarders Lake Nipissing, protects a variety of plant and animal communities, and dates back to the lower Cambrian period of 2.5 billion years ago.
What is the Great Manitou Island Property
This centre serves to preserve, promote and strengthen Indigenous languages, culture, art and history; bringing the story of the Hodinohsho:ni people of the Eastern Woodlands to life through innovative exhibitions and programs.
What is the Woodland Cultural Centre
This Provincial Heritage Organization created a discovery service titled "Archieon" to bring together information about archival records cared for by archives organizations across Ontario.
What is the Archives Association of Ontario
I am from approximetly from 1882 and made of wood and ferrous metals. What am I?
What is a mousetrap
This 1855 courthouse, designated by the City of Kingston in 1975, is made in a neoclassical style and contains large limestone pillars.
What is the Kingston (Frontenac County) Courthouse
Located on the Traditional Territory of the Williams Treaties First Nations in Peterborough, this museum holds more than 650 watercrafts
What is the Canadian Canoe Museum
This heritage organization has documented Francophone call and response folk songs on their website.
What is le Centre franco-ontarien de folklore
This 12.3 cm bone item with a turned end dating from 1850-1882, was found at the MacDonell-Williamson House. What was its function?
A small crochet hook
This heritage site, located in Orillia, was the summer home of world-renowned humorist and author, who’s best works include "Literary Lapses," "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" and "Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich.”
What is the Leacock House
Located in Dresden, ON, this open air museum documents the life of Josiah Henson and the Underground Railroad.
What is the Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History, formerly, Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
This Provincial Heritage Organization does monthly "Lunch and Learn Talking Circles" sessions with their Elder-in-Residence Elder Shishigo Gijig.
What is the Ontario Museum Association
Found in Chatham Kent and connected to the Odawa, Potawatami, Ojibwe and Wyandot nations, this heritage item is made from stone and has protruding eyes.
What is a birdstone.
Fun Fact:
The term 'birdstone' is a legacy of earlier archaeological work, and does not consider the full variety of shapes and functions these relatives may have had within Indigenous communities. This birdstone may have been worn as a pendant, or attached to another birdstone, based on the hole under its beak. Birdstones could have been used for spiritual purposes, while earlier archaeological ideas mis-identified birdstones as atlatl weights.