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The Glengarry Celtic Music Hall of Fame is located in Williamstown. The Nor'Westers and Loyalist Museum is also located in Williamstown. Williamstown is also home to Ontario's oldest continuing agricultural fair, [ 4 ] which celebrated its bicentennial in 2012.
Nor'Westers and Loyalist Museum: Williamstown: Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry: Eastern: History: story of Sir John Johnson and Loyalist followers who settled in town during the American Revolution in 1784, and the North West Company: Norwich and District Museum: Norwich: Oxford: Southwestern: Open air
The museum features twelve 19th-century log or wood-frame buildings with historic artifacts. The buildings include a mid-19th-century period inn (the oldest still-functioning bar in Ontario), a functioning blacksmith shop, a livery shed with farming equipment, a cheese factory, a barn with sleighs , a barn with tools, a trapper's cabin and a ...
In 1813, MacDonald and his Nor’Westers landed at Fort Astoria, finding it already in the possession of the NWC. [5] Many employees of the Pacific Fur Company signed on to work under the NWC. Despite having been badly burned in an explosion at sea, MacDonald took charge of the new post where he stayed until the spring of 1814. [5]
Fort Frances Museum & Cultural Centre Fort Frances, Ontario: Celebrating Community; Nor'Westers and Loyalist Museum; Wallace, W. Stewart. Documents Relating to the North West Company. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1934. North West Company Voyageur Contracts. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The Glengarry bonnet is a traditional Scots cap made of thick-milled woollen material, decorated with a toorie on top, frequently a rosette cockade on the left side, and ribbons hanging behind. It is normally worn as part of Scottish military or civilian Highland dress , either formal or informal, as an alternative to the Balmoral bonnet or Tam ...
Colin Robertson (July 27, 1783 – February 4, 1842) was an early Canadian fur trader and political figure. Born in Scotland, for much of his adult life he was engaged in the North American fur trade, working at different times for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company.
In about 1790, William joined the North West Company, at about the same time as his brother Alexander McKay.He travelled widely in the regions north and west of the Great Lakes and traded along the Menominee River and afterwards at Portage la Prairie.