Barn Records and History
I learned to start snooping around the barns for notes and records and found that they could be in the strangest places.
Blog – All things Ontario Barns (page 4)
Century-old Film of Early Log Construction
By Jim Campbell, OBP Vice President, Duntroon. Thanks goes to our awesome OBP Administrative Assistant Laura Brown for finding this…
Building a Log Barn in 1840’s Nottawasaga
by Jim Campbell, OBP Vice President, Duntroon. In the early 1900’s my great-great-grandfather, Donald Blair, with only a Grade 3…
Hay Trolley
Hay Trolleys in the barn and restored as a collectors piece.
The Return of the Barn Swallows
Excerpts of an email to OBP by member Ted Spearing, edited by Jim Campbell I’m writing back in response to…
A Word of Caution
by John Uren Some words of caution to your readers. It’s easy to assume, as I did, that if the…
Surplus Farm dwelling Severance Policy & how it has affected Ontario Barns
A letter to Ontario Municipalities This is a follow up to our research into surplus farm dwellings and how it…
The Sad Remains of a Barn in Southern Ontario
by Laura Brown, OBP Member and Our Stellar Volunteer Hello, my name is Laura Brown. I took these photos of…
Iowa Barn Tour: Part 1 of 2
State of Iowa fall barn 2023 tour
Worked at Well: The Stable Pump
by D. B. McCowan, P.Eng. (bmccowan@netrover.com) An old wooden pump sitting in Bill McCowan’s (1923-2018) barn in Pickering probably came…