stcmuseum podcasts

On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, Sara and Adrian revisit some of the testimony of from the Howe Report featured in their Virtual Museum Lecture from the November, 2020. The lecture garnered various reactions from the audience and in revisiting the Howe Report, they further examine some of those reactions to key themes from the lecture. To watch the full lecture, please visit our Youtube chann...

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

As we move into November, this is month where we take time to think about Remembrance Day, poppies and the service of our veterans past and present. On this episode of Museum Chat Live! We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Tim Cook, who is a historian at the Canadian War Museum and author of 11 books on Canadian Military History in the 20th Century. In this interview with Tim Cook, our Curator, Kat...

On this special Spooky Halloween episode of Museum Chat Live!, we consider why we're so interested in the paranormal and delve into a few supernatural stories connected to historic places and events in St. Catharines history. Visit our blog for footnotes to this episode: https://stcatharinesmuseumblog.com/2020/10/30/museum-chat-live-e605-spooky-halloween-episode-2020/

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

Welcome to a special 3-part mini-series examining the Museum's exhibit Victorian Tweets and the people who inspired it: the Victorians. Victorian Tweets juxtaposes daily Victorian life found in newspapers, diaries, letters, and ephemera against the modern Twitterverse. The archival documents found in the exhibit and included in the special podcast mini-series are interesting, quirky, mundane, snap...

Welcome to a special 3-part mini-series examining the Museum's exhibit Victorian Tweets and the people who inspired it: the Victorians. Victorian Tweets juxtaposes daily Victorian life found in newspapers, diaries, letters, and ephemera against the modern Twitterverse. The archival documents found in the exhibit and included in the special podcast mini-series are interesting, quirky, mundane, snap...

Welcome to a special 3-part mini-series examining the Museum's exhibit Victorian Tweets and the people who inspired it: the Victorians. Victorian Tweets juxtaposes daily Victorian life found in newspapers, diaries, letters, and ephemera against the modern Twitterverse. The archival documents found in the exhibit and included in the special podcast mini-series are interesting, quirky, mundane, snap...

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, we take you on a journey through the creation of the St. Catharines Museum's Where’s the Pig? virtual adventure series and dig a little deeper into its inspiration and why this kind of museum work is so important! To help us explore this work a little further, we’ve invited historian Dr. Tim Compeau, who, among many accolades, teaches Digital Public History in...

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, hear the dramatic and rarely-told story of a major strike closed shipyards across Niagara in the summer of 1861, and how the story has been turned into a play by the students at Governor Simcoe Secondary School.

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

In this episode of Museum Chat Live!, Kathleen Powell, Supervisor of Historical Services chats with Bonnie Cameron, President of the Friends of the Carousel and Katherine Nelson-Riley, Communications and Public Relations Director for the Friends of the Carousel about this beloved attraction in the community. The Carousel is currently closed to the public due to Covid-19 restrictions. This podcast...

Over the course of this miniseries, we have explored the history of the bridges built over the Welland Canal. We’ve taken a closer look at the canal crossings that exist today, including the tunnels and the Garden City Skyway. And we’ve also peaked into the grimmer history of bridge accidents and disasters. We end the miniseries on a lighter note, to “lift us up” if you will, and explore a few com...

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

On May 7th, 2020, we mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day – marking Victory in Europe during the Second World War. The fighting continued in the Asian theatre for a few more months and ended on August 14, 1945 with Victory in Japan – VJ Day. In this episode of the podcast we are talking to Mayor Walter Sendzik who tells us about his trip to the Netherlands and Bergen op Zoom in October 2019 to mark...

As we continue the Canal Crossings miniseries, this episodes dig into the darker history that surrounds the canal crossings – the tragic accidents involved in bridge construction and maintenance, and other bridge disasters. We turn our attention to this grim part of Welland Canal history in honour of the National Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured in the Workplace held on April 28th.

On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, your co-host Sara chats with special guest, Des Corran, about the canal crossings in-use today. We explore not only the surviving bridges from when the Welland Canal opened in 1932, but also the construction of the underwater tunnels and the Garden City Skyway.

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

This is the first in a series of episodes that explores the bridges that cross the Welland Canal. Most of the time, when we think of these bridges, we think of being stuck at them. The many bridges that cross the canal from Port Weller to Port Colborne are often just thought of as part of the infrastructure that gets us from Point A to Point B- with sometimes a wait in between. But, when you are s...

In early 2019, the St. Catharines Museum opened a temporary exhibition called Outbreak. The exhibit explores the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic and tells a larger story about public health and disease in St. Catharines and Canada. We opened this exhibit to commemorate 100 years since the influenza pandemic, but we could have never guessed just how relevant this exhibit would become in light of th...

Have you ever noticed that a simple information search can lead you in strange and wonderful directions? As in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, historical research can lead you down a winding rabbit hole that might take you off your original path and lead you to new and amazing historical places! This podcast series starts with that premise! Adrian Petry, Visitors Services Coordinator and Kathlee...

On this episode of Museum Chat Live, we explore ideas for how you can use your #stayhome time to dig into your family history. Starting a family history "isolation project" is a great opportunity for you to pass the extra time you are having at home in a meaningful, constructive way and to learn more about your family history.

On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, we share the stories of some of the trailblazing women who've made their mark on St. Catharines history. We highlight some of the "firsts" for women in St. Catharines and also talk about our favourite s-heros in our local her-story.