Ohs Bulletin 060 1989 Winter
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_1i§I 5151 Yonge Street Willowdale, Ontario MZN SP5 OHS Whips Up Tasty Young Ontarians Like Conference on Food Too! By Cathy F ebbraro traditions of the First Nations, of Co-ordinator, OHS the many peoples from Britain, Young Ontario Programme Europe and around the world Ontario who settled in Ontario Food and of Young people between the ages our present day will be of 6 and 12 will participate in highlighted. Activities at the “Food Glorious Food!”, and Drink a 2-day hotel as well as field trips to Traditions programme being sponsored by historic sites in the Ottawa area the Young Ontario Programme will be featured. of The Ontario Historical The programme will take Society on May 5 and 6, 1989. place from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 The programme will be held p.m. each day. Registration fees concurrently with the Society's are $25.00 per child for 2 days Annual Conference and like the or $15.00 per child for one day. Conference, it will be based at There is also a special family the Radisson Hotel in rate of $40.00 for the two days. downtown Ottawa. Cost includes lunch and all field This both the year, Annual trips. Preregistration is Conference and the Young On- necessary and enrolment is tario Programme - will share a limited registrations will be common theme and it is one to accepted on a first-come-first- which everyone can relate: food served basis. and its fascinating traditions! F or further information or for “Food The Glorious Food!” pro registration forms, please con- gramme will focus on the chang- tact Cathy Febbraro, The On- ing customs surrounding food as tario Historical Society, 5151 well as look at how the peoples Yonge Street, Willowdale, On- of Ontario produced their daily tario MZN SP5, (416) bread (and more) long ago. Food 226-9011. Billings, the regal Rideau Hall used at state banquets residence of the Governor throughout the years as well as General, the Central Ex- examples of the coarser perimental Farm, a typical nine- ironstone used by the servants teenth century Ottawa Valley downstairs. At the Pinhey log farm, and the Bytown manor-house the monogrammed Museum that is housed in the sterling silver of s the aristrocratic a —:»’ ' I." ' « ‘ :.«.«.x... ~ ~ V ~ ~ 1828 commissariat building out John Benning Monk family will T/Air aim‘/1 sltows “One Half of Our Family at Breakfast” in tile dining room t/ze S/Iittgwaut of which of /fame in Sault Ste. Marie Colonel John By sup- be polished up for inspection. on /llortday, Mont/I 1, I880. P/ioto: Ontario Artfiives MS 24, Reel 1. plied the building of the historic And at the Billings Estate there Rideau Canal. will be a special display of nine- By Glenn Lockwood So exciting a conference does If there is sufficient interest, teenth century cookbooks. 1989 Conference Chairman this promise to be that the INSIDE OHS further bus tours will be available The “Consuming Passions” Museums Committee, which on Sunday, May 7th to an conference begins on Thursday On the weekend of May 4th, 5th normally holds separate sessions English manor house built with a mini-workshop and by on how to 6th, 1989, food traditions apart from the regular OHS Hamnett K. Pinhey overlooking research, interpret and publish from the last two hundred years presentations, has decided to the Ottawa River in the 18205 information on our food tradi- will come alive at one of the treat the entire “Consuming Pas- and 18405, and to the tions, and a Marketplace of most exciting theme con- sions” conference as an in- Cumberland Township Museum Ideas, Resources, Publications ferences ever to be sponsored in valuable hands-on experience for — a collection of buildings con- and Reproduction Artifacts Ontario. The conference “Con- museum workers interested in structed by Franco-Ontarian and related to Canadian food and suming Passions: Eating and exploring authentic food tradi- British settlers and restored to beverages. There Drinking will be a tradi- Traditions in Ontario”, tions from various periods in On- the early twentieth century. tional French Canadian meal, is being held at the luxurious rario’s history. And well they The bus tours will have a followed by a panel discussing Radisson Hotel (formerly the might! The meals being special flavour. Instead of the the First Nations, their tradi- centretown Holiday Inn) in prepared by renowned chef F rits regular tour you might expect, tional food, beverages and downtown Ottawa. Marechal are taken from authen- there will be a special food- medicines with samples This conference offers you the tic period recipes. From a food related emphasis in keeping with available. experience of tracing changing perspective, people attending the “Consuming Passions” con- On Friday, May 5 there will food traditions in Ontario over this conference will feel as if ference theme. At Rideau Hall, be a wealth of topics to choose the last two centuries. Beginning they have boarded a gastronomic for example, they are bringing with the First Nations, it will be time capsule or time machine. out some of the vice-regal china (See Food Conference p. possible to explore the 2) food and Ottawa, the nation’s capital, beverages of the military, the fur provides a splendid setting for The Ontario Historical Society traders, the French and British the conference. Amid the Canada Poota 5151 Yonge Street Poo! Canada settlers, and the other pageantry of '* state at a time when Pbslaoenod W?//orwdale, Ontario Rarvoavfi newcomers that populated On- its internationally-recognized MZN 5P5 tario. Speakers will also examine tulip festival is beginning to FIRST PREMIERE- how changing technology has af- bloom, at the place where CLASSCLASSE fected food from the early nine- English and French Canada 3 7 teenth century to today’s fast unite, Ottawa offers a variety of Meaford. Ontario food outlets. Best of all, people attractive sites and museums to attending the sessions at this visit. On the afternoon of Thurs- conference will be able to sam- day, May 4th there will be three ple foods and beverages from bus tours from which to choose. the historical periods under The sites visited on these bus discussion. The conference ses- tours include the magnificent sions, meals and snacks will new National Gallery filled with move chronologically through the largest collection of Cana- time from the late eighteenth dian art anywhere, the 1828 century to the present. mansion of timberman Braddish 2 OHS BULLETIN POLARIS Continues to Raise Food C Onference (Corztinuedfmm page I) Concerns in Heritage Community from. The theme ‘Eating on the On the morning of Saturday Move” will be augmented by ses- May 6th the day’s theme will be ”I‘he sions on: Supplying Military and set with a presentation on Fur Trading Posts, Food and Growth of the Food Industry in That all originals for the Provi- Ontario.” Following this, there By Dorothy Duncan Mr. Logan is still with the 3. Beverages as Medicines, 1790 to 1867 have been will be four concurrent sessions Executive Director Ministry, and is now the Direc- period sioning Surveyors and Their to tor of the Real Property retained. This has been found Crews, and Surviving on the to choose from: (1) Packaging - con- Registration Branch. be incorrect Mr. Wrye has Homestead. After a subsistence and Labelling, (2) the Depres- ALL of Ottawa and its Effects on our Food Members of The Ontario Having not been consulted in firmed that break of survival foods and sion Carleton's deeds and in- Transportation Historical Society will the intervening period, it was beverages it will be possible to Traditions, (3) struments for the period 1790 to ses- and Refrigeration, and (4) Ad- remember the concerns ex- with great surprise and grave choose from a further four our 1947 have been destroyed. and Taverns in ditives to Food and Beverages. pressed by our Executive in concern that sions: (1) Inns in of 1988 4. That if a deed or instrument Bytown as the pro- After nibbling on a Depression 1983 when we first learned Society learned June Ontario, (2) im- includes an attachment such as a the Rideau era snack, there will be four about POLARIS - the Province that the Ministry had visioning centre for of this map, survey, or whatever, it will Food traditions of more sessions to choose from of Ontario Land Registration plemented a new segment Canal, (3) in- retained. and late on Saturday morning: (1) and Information System. This programme involving be Franco-Ontarians, British the 5. That historical information Germans, New Waves of Immigrants and system involves the storing of in- struments and deeds for Pennsylvania (4) can be efficiently stored in Into Whiskey: the their Food Traditions, (2) Ra- formation from original land period 1868 to 1947. Wheat on tape and film, and Conference tioning in Wartime, State documents on computer tape or Enquiries about the extent of perpetuity Perfect Soluction. (3) are moving to “paperless from these Dinners at Rideau Hall, and (4) on microfilm, and the destruc- the destruction met with confus- as they delegates will emerge however, offices” this will continue to be sessions to find sustenance in a ‘Just add water and mix’. At tion of the original documents. ing answers initially, in the future in govern- Traveller’s noon, delegates will tuck into a The OHS and many other the Honourable William Wrye, the trend nineteenth century Com- merit. Lunch. smorgasboard featuring dishes heritage organizations including Minsiter of Consumer and The heritage community is of reflecting the diverse influence the Ontario Genealogical mercial Relations has now con- Peter Ledwith, Curator in sympathetic to the problems of Collections at the Ontario of twentieth century immigrants Society and the Ontario Ar- firmed that the documents following retention that have been out- Agricultural Museum will set the to Ontario.