This Week’s Brockville Museum #TBT

Brockville – The area around the museum is bustling with RibFest today and through the weekend, so we thought we’d share this archival aerial view of the area for this week’s #TBT (with some markers to provide some orientation).

Photo by Murray & Sons (the Brockville Museum is fortunate to have many photos from this local studio, including a number of unique aerial images like this one).

NOTE: Parking is extremely limited in this area during RibFest, with most of the municipal lot next to the museum CLOSED for the event. Water St and Kincaid St. are also CLOSED adjacent to the park.

Who remembers the oil tanks behind the mill? Imperial Oil operated on this site between 1911 and 1978, before the City purchased the property. Now the Brock Trail passes through this piece of land.
The building now occupied by the museum was formerly used by the Central Canada Company. Coal sheds and piles are evident in this photograph.

And of course, today’s Centennial and Hardy Parks, the site of RibFest, were once the home to Smarts Foundry, a manufacturer of all kinds of cast iron products (many on display in the museum).

If you’re popping down for lunch at RibFest, why not visit the museum?

Explore more of Brockville’s waterfront transformation in our River exhibit or take a look at some of the products manufactured here in our Made in Brockville exhibit (and more)!

Admission is by donation. Open Monday-Saturday 10 am-4 pm.

Reminder (again): most of the Henry Street Parking Lot (and part of Water Street) is CLOSED all weekend.