by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Need I say more. We’ve had such great comments and so many views, that we are going to keep going with our vintage class photos of local students. How great is it that the museum has so many great pictures of our children over the...
by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Who doesn’t love looking at class photos from the last century? Hopefully not you, because here we go again! Because The Rideau District Museum has a plethora of photos of citizens of the village from the 1900s, it seems a shame not to share them all on...
by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last week we took a look at the pupils of Bell’s School, Salem, and Ardmore, and, not surprisingly, that was our most popular Vintage Westport post ever. For those who don’t follow The Rideau District Museum on Facebook, we had over 1,800 views of that...
by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, Vintage Westport is venturing out of the village and taking a peek at some of the outlying schools in the district. Back in the days of the one-room schoolhouses, children would walk for miles every day to class and some would even hop on the B&W...
by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Continuing last week’s post, “A Look at Blair’s Store”, we are going to take another glimpse at some memories of the store that stood on the corner of Main and Bedford Streets. Were you in the village at the time of the fire, and were you one of the many...
by | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Blair’s Store was a Westport landmark that stood on the southeast corner of Main and Bedford Streets. One of the last big fires of commercial properties within the boundaries of the village, Blair’s was destroyed in 1963. Do you recognize the annex to The...
