The exhibit offers a look at how people and immigrants learned to survive and adapt to our particularly cold northern climate.
WOODSTOCK - A new exhibit opens this weekend at the Woodstock Museum.
The exhibit offers a look at how people learned to survive and adapt to our particularly cold northern climate.
It will look at some of the ways that the earliest settlers, and explores developed home heating, textiles, quilting, clothing, transportation and cooking technology.
Manager of Culture and Museum Curator Karen Houston explains how the exhibit was created.
"I think that what started it is when we were changing out the permanent gallery at the museum and we started looking at the information and object due to weather and change in climates, not necessarily as in day to day but from place to place, so how new immigrants were coming a lot of the time from the UK and it was quite mild there and their winters were quite mild and coming to Canada was a bit of a shock and it shows the different ways that they actually had to adapt and what kind of clothing they wear and how did they keep their houses warm and lit and what kind of food were they suddenly eating and all of these kind of things and the actual artifact that we had that relate to that."
Houston adds some of what the exhibit will feature and explain.
"We cover different aspects like how did you heat your house, also how did you heat your food, what kind of food did you eat, then you also look at bed coverlets and quilts, also when you travel you need big coats and knitting and gloves. Fur was indeed a huge way Canadian's kept warm so we have some buffalo skins and some other things as well."
The Keeping Warm exhibit will run from this Saturday to April 25th at the Woodstock Museum.
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