Peterborough, Ontario, City Museum
2026-04-02
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34: Peterborough City employee D. Yaxley found these items and human remains in 1960 while installing a parking meter on Brock St. This panel explains how the Royal Ontario Museum verified that the remains were of a male in his 40's who died about 2,000 years ago. In the 1990's the City Museum and Archives repatriated the remains to the Curve Lake First Nation for a traditional reinterment. Resin casts of the original items are shown below.
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Follow this link to the panel telling the story of Peter Robinson. It remembers him as being "unusually tolerant" and having a "kind manner" that facilitated his recruitment of volunteers in Ireland and their resettlement in Peterborough.
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Follow this link to the panel telling the story of Peter Robinson selection of 2,000 volunteers out of 50,000 applicants.
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Follow this link to the panel telling the story of Dr. William Burnie who cared for emigrants on one ship, the "John Barry."
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71: How close on resident came to being a unicyclist.
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