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NCA – Crime & Punishment: Maintaining Order in Norfolk County

NCA – Crime & Punishment: Maintaining Order in Norfolk CountyCrime & Punishment: Maintaining Order in Norfolk County Runs until August 29, 2025 The exhibit explores 125 years of Norfolk County’s legal system, focusing on the County Courthouse and Jail, highlighting famous true crime stories and exploring the history of local law enforcement. Visitors will delve into a variety of artifacts and archival materials that reveal the complex history of crime and punishment and the lasting impact of historical justice practices.

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NCA – 5th Annual Genealogy Symposium

5th Annual Norfolk County Genealogy Symposium5th Annual Norfolk County Genealogy Symposium September 13, 2025 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm A conference style event that includes vendors, a used book sale of local history and genealogy books, and engaging sessions on family history research from various guest speakers across Ontario. The symposium offers a variety of topics geared to both beginners and avid genealogists! Tickets go on sale July 14, 2025. $25 per person. Pre-registration required.

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NCA – Norfolk Old Boys and Girls Reunion: 100 Years

NCA – Norfolk Old Boys and Girls’ Reunion: 100 YearsRuns until May 30, 2025 The Old Boys and Girls’ Reunion, sometimes referred to as ‘Old Home Week’ was one of the biggest celebrations in Norfolk County’s history bringing in hundreds of citizens from all over Canada and the US. This exhibit showcases the history of this event and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Norfolk County Old Boys and Girls Reunion from August 2 – 7, 1924.

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Norfolk County’s New Web Archives

BLOGNorfolk County Archives recently received private funding through the Community Webs Program for a subscription to an Archive-It account. Archive-It is a web archiving service developed and maintained by the non-profit Internet Archive. The software enables organizations to build and share archived collections of websites, social media, and other web documents and materials. In our increasingly online world, web archiving – the process of capturing and preserving portions of the World Wide Web and making them available for future use – is becoming a critical aspect of archival...

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ESB Moore Photograph Donation

BLOGA very neat discovery from a recent donation of photographic negatives. The collection consisted of approximately 400 cellulose acetate negatives, mostly portraits. When we first received the donation the photographer was unknown but we knew the photographer was local from the surnames etched on the negatives. A volunteer noticed that the etching on the negatives was very similar to the etching on the glass plate negatives from our large ESB Moore photograph collection. Since we have the registers of photographer ESB Moore, we checked the numbers etched on the cellulose acetate negatives...

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