Allow Us a Moment of Reflection, During our more lucid moments we realize that the Steeves House Museum is a small institution located on the back street of a tiny town in rural New Brunswick. This humble perspective was difficult for us to maintain while we were standing amid the painstakingly assembled and beautifully arranged exhibit describing the years leading up to Canada’s creation. Humility was more difficult still when we saw our museum’s name listed among the biggest and best museums in Canada as one of the proud contributors. The Lower Coverdale Steeves Family, who donated the cushion and its cover to the museum in 1978, deserves special recognition for the foresight shown in their decision to share this artifact with a wider audience. The Rebellion and Confederation exhibit fills five large rooms. The pictures from the last few posts show only a part of one room. To the right of the Confederation exhibit is an equally large presentation, which reveals the fate of the Empress of Ireland, her crew and passengers. The couple pictured have discovered that volunteering to do something positive trumps complaining negatively every time. To the left is an intriguing Prince Edward Island Mi’kmaq village, which weaves together a seemingly simple story with physical displays, audio, light and, most compelling, the connective strands of text until a more complex and compelling portrayal of a people, their beliefs and society emerges. These three shows take up only one corner of one level of the curvaceous Museum of Canadian History in Gatineau, which is the largest and most prestigious museum in the country. We are very thankful to the Museum and the curator we dealt with, Jean-Francois Lozier for allowing us to share little of the glitter that awaits you in Gatineau, PQ. He treated us with such respect that we have no difficulty in forgiving him for describing our William Henry Steeves, who is from Hillsborough NB, as being a delegate to the Quebec Confederation Conference from Nova Scotia. There are worst things than being mistaken for a person from Nova Scotia, we suppose. Cousin Kathleen & Paul
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:32:33 +0000
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