The restoration of the St. Edmunds Bruce Peninsula Museum’s Davis Cabin has been completed.
Northern Bruce Peninsula Council, the museum committee, volunteers, and Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Paul Vickers gathered at the museum on Saturday to celebrate the restoration of one of the oldest buildings in Tobermory.
The restoration work included foundation and structural repairs, and installation of updated electrical services and relocating the structure.
The restoration work comes after the Ontario Trillium Foundation provided a $72,800 Resilient Communities Fund grant for the project.
Co-Chair of the Museum Committee Rob Davis says the relocation of the cabin to the museum property is an important event in the history of the community.
“The pioneer cabin is considered to be the oldest structure in Tobermory, and its relocation and preservation has been made possible, in large part, by the generosity of the Ontario Trillium Foundation” says Davis.
Vickers adds he does not think the restoration would have been possible without the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
“That is why the trillium fund is there, to help develop projects that may be couldn’t come to fruition,” says Vickers. “Some of the smaller municipalities that we have up in this area don’t have the same financial backing as some of the larger urban centres do. I think that it is a good way that the province can help out smaller municipalities to get, what I would consider, to be very important parts of our heritage.”
The cabin is part of the museum’s exhibit of sharing the cultural and natural history of Northern Bruce Peninsula.
