Wallaceburg is a beautiful town on the banks of the Sydenham River and has a rich heritage from its pioneer founding as the Baldoon Settlement. See Wallaceburg’s Industrial Revolution with the rise of Canada and Dominion Sugar Company, the Wallaceburg Brass Company...

This lovely, old former schoolroom, library and Council Chambers are home to artifacts and memorabilia collected from Thamesville and the surrounding area.  Items on display include: Robertson Davies memorabilia, a Sherman Fysh model of 1942 Thamesville, World War...

Since 1943 the Chatham-Kent Museum has been dedicated to collecting and preserving the material heritage of Chatham-Kent and to promoting the area’s history through exhibits and programming.  For over 60 years, the museum has been selectively acquiring artifacts...

The Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society is a Non-profit Registered Charity, which was founded in 1992 and incorporated in 1994. We are an affiliated society of the Ontario Historical Society, which was founded in 1888. Membership is open to anyone who is a citizen...

The Oil Museum of Canada, in the Village of Oil Springs, preserves the site of the first commercial oil well in North America.  This oil heritage district also developed the world's first gusher and the world’s first oil exchange.  While visiting the museum...

Nestled in the trees along Longwoods Road in Chatham-Kent, between the communities of Thamesville and Bothwell, the museum doesn't appear to hold any great secrets. But the red log building houses some important artifacts from what was the first settlement of...

The Bothwell-Zone Oil Museum is emerging from a colourful past of the 1860's to become an exciting centre of learning Experience first hand how the efficiency of the system brought this country to world markets over night.

The Buxton Museum, officially opened in 1967, was Raleigh Township's Centennial Project as a memorial to the Elgin Settlement, haven for the fugitives of the American system of slavery in the pre-Civil War years.

Visitors to the Petrolia Discovery experience a fascinating, one-of-a-kind glimpse into the early days of the world's oil boom. From the first, hand-dug wells of the 1850s, to the great refineries and machine shops which abounded at the turn of the century,...

The museum has an international collection of some 6,000 objects artistically displayed in a gallery setting. Fluorescent minerals, fossils, minerals, gemstones, artifacts, shells, butterflies, insects, antlers, horns, dinosaurs and huge shark jaws are all on...