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# Parkwood Estate

Canada’s Finest & Last Remaining Grand Estate

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- [Blog](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/blog/)
- [Raffle Registration Form](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/raffle-registration-form/) - Raffle Registration FormPlease click the button below to download the Raffle Registration Form in a printable PDF format. Download Registration Form
- [Important Reasons to Preserve Historical Buildings](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/important-reasons-preserve-historical-buildings/) - It is important to protect the past so that we can learn from it and create a better future. As for historical monuments, artifacts and buildings, protecting and preserving them will put us in touch with our past to ensure we never forget our roots and the history of our cities. Regarding historical buildings, there
- [Three Popular Movies/TV Shows Filmed at Parkwood Estates](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/three-popular-movies-tv-shows-filmed-at-parkwood-estates/) - Parkwood Estate is amongst Canada’s most valued treasures, as it's not only Canada’s most exceptional grand estate, it is also the preferred scene for filmmakers from all over the world. A wonderland for the imagination, Parkwood Estate has been meticulously preserved to ensure it never loses the lustre of its original look. Standing tall for
- [Curious Curator: Protectograph Cheque Writer](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/curious-curator-protectograph-cheque-writer/) - According to the 2010 US Federal Reserve Payment Study, people write 24.4 billion cheques each year, either personal or for business-related purposes. History of Cheques The advent of cheques emerged as it became recognized that the carrying of large amounts of cash was troublesome, physically cumbersome, and security wise unsafe. Historians believe that cheques,
- [Curious Curator: Weather Forecasting Instruments](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/weather-forecasting-instruments/) - Behind the heavy velvet draperies or hidden in the nooks and crannies throughout the Estate is a collection of artifact instruments to forecast and calculate the weather. Temperature and humidity are important to us today, from a curatorial perspective in terms of a preservation measure, but within our artifact collection, the Estate boasts a dozen
- [Curious Curator: Composition of the Bowling Balls](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/composition-of-the-bowling-balls/) - Historically, the bowling ball was made of lignum vitae, a very hard, dense wood, until, 1905 when the first rubber bowling ball "Evertrue" was introduced. With the success of Evertrue, the Brunswick Corporation produced their first rubber mineralite ball in 1914, marketing it as a "mysterious rubber compound". The cleverly advertised product was launched through
- [Why Parkwood Estate Is Your Dream Wedding Destination](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/why-parkwood-estate-is-your-dream-wedding-destination/) - Deciding where you wish to elope with the love of your life is a significant life choice. Choosing a historic and elegant setting for your wedding will create an irreplaceable backdrop, that will have your wedding guests expressing their admiration and lust for a similar destination for their weddings. Parkwood Estate reaches and exceeds expectations
- [The Awakening of Flora](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/the-awakening-of-flora/) - Some of you may be familiar with the ballet anacréontique Le Réveil de Flore first performed in 1894, while others may be more familiar with our Palm House, goddess of spring, Flora. Flora has been living on the bowling alley for the past two and a half years, while the greenhouse restoration project was underway.
- [Jane Austen: The 1906 Chawton Edition](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/jane-austen-the-1906-chawton-edition/) - The Austen collection on the shelves is the 12 volume 1906 Chawton edition, an octavo, the boards are marble paper covered, with deckling outside edges, the top edges have gilt. The set is bound in leather with gilt lettering, which is unusual for Austen sets, which, historically, have tended to be cloth with paper spine
- [Fun Things to Do in Oshawa, Ontario](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/fun-things-to-do-in-oshawa-ontario/) - Canada is known for its hidden gems, and one of those gems is in the heart of Ontario. Oshawa, Ontario may not get the fanfare that Toronto - less than an hour away - receives, but there are many exciting things to do here for people of all ages. Here are some of the things
- [War Production and the Effects on Parkwood](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/war-production-and-the-effects-on-parkwood/) - One of my curatorial delights about Parkwood is the rare fact that we still find items of the past within, or on the estate grounds, every day. Part of this is due to the fact that as a home, Parkwood transferred to become a museum, with people still working at the Estate between January 1972,
- [Breakfast Room Draperies](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/breakfast-room-draperies/) - I arrived at work today to a query from our Ask Sam box in the gift shop about the Breakfast Room draperies. For those not familiar with the draperies, from archival photographs, the current ones are post-1950, although I do not possess an exact date when these five pairs of floral hand block printed linen
- [The Cattle in the Stall](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/the-cattle-in-the-stall/) - Christmas 1932, Adelaide received a volume of sketches and poems by Nina Moore Jamieson called The Cattle in the Stall. The volume of poems was printed and sold shortly after Jamieson passed away after a battle with breast cancer. Born in Belfast, Ireland to Canadian parents, Nina Moore (1885-1932) grew up in the country towns
- [Curios Curator: Les Lointains Scenic Wallpaper](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/curious-curator-les-lointains-scenic-wallpaper.pdf) - by Samantha George The paper is a scenic design of a temperate forest is sage and grisaille tones to create the panorama that surrounds an occupant in the Rose Room, located at the north east corner of the Estate, in the daughters’ wing, now an office space. Grisaille is the term applied to the use
- [Gardeners' Gander: Succulent Care](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Succulent-care-post.pdf) - by Nancy Lawrence, Green house Grower What do you do with that succulent dish garden or pot that you brought home from the garden center?
- [Mrs. Lee's Vanity Set](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Mrs.-Leess-Vanity-Set.pdf) - by Samantha George, Curator Mrs. Lees was one of the Parkwood seamstresses employed by Adelaide McLaughlin
- [Curious Curator: Junius Morgan & The Long Point Gang](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Curious-Curator_Long-Point.pdf) - by Samantha George the Christmas of 1953, Sam McLaughlin received a privately printed book, Further Recollections of Long Point, written by friend Junius S Morgan, (yes, grandson of THAT Morgan family). Long Point was the private shooting club that Sam and his peers frequented near Port Rowan. I have had the artefact volume sitting on
- [Gardener's Gander: A Little Green](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Gardeners-Gander_-January-1.pdf) - by Nancy Lawrence, Greenhouse Grower January has brought us unusually warm gray dull days but here at the Greenhouses
- [Parkwood Foundation: At-Home Gala Dinner](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Parkwood-At-Home-Gala-Dinner-Order-Form.pdf)
- [Christmas String Art](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/uncategorized/christmas-string-art/) - Get crafting into the holiday season with this fun socially distanced 2.5 hour workshop in the McLaughlin Room at Parkwood. Hosted by Andrea Ryan from Blissful Days Designs you will learn the standard string art technique, along with tips and tricks she has learned in her career as a string artist. You will have the

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- [Plan A Visit](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/plan-visit/) - Spring/Summer Season: June 1 – Sept. 1 Fall/Winter Season: Sept. 2 – May 31 No Tours: July 3, 4, 11 and 25 CLOSED: July 5-10 Gift Shop Hours: June | July The Tea House Restaurant – May 30 – Sept. 7 Tea House Info & Reservations 11 Acre Garden: 9am – 5pm Mon-Fri | 10:30am –
- [Contact](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/contact/) - Oshawa, Ontario L1G 4T5 Hours Summer Season (June 1-Labour Day) 7 days a week – 10:30am-5:00pm Winter Season (Labour Day-May 31) Wednesday to Sunday – 1:00pm-5:00pm Contact (905) 433-4311 info@parkwoodestate.com The Parkwood Team – We’re Here For You! Laura Mountjoy Executive Director Erin Marcelino x36062 Office Administrator Samantha George x34084 Curator &
- [Support](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/support/) - your engraved company logo. DOWNLOAD Attend our Special Events Take part in any of our fantastic events! See what’s on our calander below. view events Corporate & Community Support Sponsorship is an exceptional way to align your products and services with Parkwood’s elegant sophistication and rich history. Corporate support will maximize your organization’s charitable giving
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- [Weddings, Photos & Functions](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/weddings/) - Steeped with over a century of history and natural beauty, there is no better place to renew your vows or say “I Do” and begin the next chapter of forever, than Parkwood National Historic Site. Surrounded by lush gardens and architectural landscaping there are several picturesque spaces on the grounds and inside the museum for
- [Plan A Visit - draft](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/plan-a-visit/) - Spring/Summer Season May 31-Sept. 1 No Tours: Sept. 6-9 & 11-13 UPCOMING SPECIALTY TOUR(S) Garden Tour: June 4-Aug. 29 (Wed & Fri) Basement Tour: Aug. 1-10 Servants’ Tour: Sept. 17-28 WWII and Parkwood: Nov. 5-16 Christmas Tour: Nov. 26-30 Gift Shop Hours: June 2025 The Tea House Restaurant – May 31 – Sept 1 Tea House
- [Our History](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/our-history/) - The Private Side of R.S. McLaughlin Adelaide McLaughlin The McLaughlin Daughters Automotive History View or read the stories of The McLaughlin Family Adelaide McLaughlin McLaughlin Car Slideshow McLaughlin House Garden History The McLaughlin family had an avid interest in horticulture and landscaping, as evidenced by their eleven greenhouses and staff of 24 gardeners. McLaughlin sought
- [Conservation & Preservation](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/conservation-preservation/) - Parkwood is extremely fortunate in that we have not had to source or collect artifacts for our collection. When the Estate became a National Historic Site, the house was full of items that belonged to the McLaughlin Family when they lived here. As the estate is now 100+ years old, signs of time, gravity and
- [Film Production](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/film-production/) - Filming at Parkwood Check out our list of movies & shows that have been filmed at Parkwood. List of filmsHow Film Production Fits While it’s not our core business, filming gives us revenue that we need to continue to conserve and preserve the Estate for our visitors to enjoy for many years to come. Filming
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- [Events](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/events-old/) - Loading... Events Upcoming Events Check out what’s new and upcoming at Parkwood view all eventsview events calendarHeritage Clubs Museum Morsels Museum Morsels is a partnership with the Oshawa Community Museum made possible with funding from Service Canada, New Horizons Program. The club explores social history through the culinary world. From recipes to utensils to aprons. Come explore
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- [COVID-19 Special Announcement](https://www.parkwoodestate.com/covid-19-special-announcement/) - Welcome Back! We are ready when you are, and are excited to welcome you back to Parkwood after a temporary closure to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. As an organization we have spent considerable time evaluating and exploring all options regarding how we can welcome you back safely. In accordance with Stage

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