There’s more history at home about a Bruce County man who participated in the Rebellion of 1837.
Letters and family photographs once belonging to John Stewart are at the Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre in Southampton.
Archivist Ann Marie Collins says the material is very significant.
Collins says the pre-1840 material comes from the Scottish immigrant who was befriended by William Lyon Mackenzie and joined the short-lived Upper Canada Rebellion that fought for responsible government.
Stewart and many others were arrested for their involvement.
However Stewart was able to escape from prison and fled to the United States where he remained until pardoned by the Queen.
Collins says the Stewart papers came up for auction earlier this year and the Bruce County Historical Society came up with the money to bid on the items.
She says there was one other bidder who dropped out at the 25 hundred dollar mark but it cost the local organization more than that to get their prize.
Collins says there was a reserve bid on the items of about four thousand dollars which means that was the least the papers could be purchased.
The photos and letters are now available for public viewing in the reading room of the museum.
It costs five dollars and you’ll be asked to where white gloves but the material will take you back to a historical time in this country’s growth.
Stewart lived in Paisley where he operated a farm implements factory.
He is buried at the Paisley Cemetery.