{"id":5809,"date":"2019-04-15T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2025-08-04T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:18:28","slug":"rideau-lakes-heritage-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/rideau-lakes-heritage-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideau Lakes Heritage Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2019\/04\/52nd-Delta-Maple-Syrup-Festival.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2019\/04\/52nd-Delta-Maple-Syrup-Festival.png 288w, https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2019\/04\/52nd-Delta-Maple-Syrup-Festival-118x300.png 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><b>1st Annual RIDEAU LAKES HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM<\/b>&nbsp;\u2013 hosted by MHAC and the Rideau Lakes Heritage Network. To be held at the Old Town Hall in Delta, ON at 8 Lower Beverley Lake Park Road. Registration is at 9 a.m. with morning presentations staring at 9:30 a.m. by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Ken Watson:<\/b>&nbsp;&#8220;Why Delta? &#8211; Mills &amp; Community, 1794-1812&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Wendy Banks:<\/b>&nbsp;&#8220;Local Food&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>George German:<\/b>&nbsp;&#8220;History of Philipsville&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><b>Mike Dwyer:<\/b>&nbsp;&#8220;Delta&#8217;s Jubilee Block&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">After lunch will be tours with 1 group touring our 1810 Old Stone Mill National Historical Site where our&nbsp;<b>Miller Chris Wooding<\/b>&nbsp;will do a presentation while grinding wheat into flour on the millstone. Our&nbsp;<b>Blacksmith, John Cain<\/b>, will be on site in the Mill Drive Shed showing off his skills of the trade. The other group will take a wagon ride with&nbsp;<b>Doug Bond<\/b>&nbsp;guiding the way and pointing out our heritage properties in the village. Then the groups will switch so each person will get a chance to take in all that Delta has to offer with the day wrapping up around 3:30 p.m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Registration is $20.00 per person that includes lunch and refreshments. The Rideau Lakes Heritage Network &amp; Genealogy will have&nbsp;<b>displays<\/b>&nbsp;set up around the Hall for your interest. It will be a great day for anyone interested in our local history.&nbsp;<b>Deadline for registration is April 10, 2019<\/b>. Payment can be made at the door. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>Date<\/strong> :<br \/>\nFriday, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">April 26<\/span><\/strong>, 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>Event location<\/strong> :<br \/>\nRideau Lakes, ON<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong> :<br \/>\nPlease contact Clerk Mary Ellen at&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"mailto:mtruelove@twprideaulakes.on.ca?subject=Rideau%20Lakes%20Heritage%20Symposium\">mtruelove@twprideaulakes.on.ca<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;to register or for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 1st Annual RIDEAU LAKES HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM&nbsp;\u2013 hosted by MHAC and the Rideau Lakes Heritage Network. To be held at the Old Town Hall in Delta, ON at 8 Lower Beverley Lake Park Road. Registration is at 9 a.m. with morning presentations staring at 9:30 a.m. by: Ken Watson:&nbsp;&#8220;Why Delta? &#8211; Mills &amp; Community, 1794-1812&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,53,70],"tags":[1243,1249,1714],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rideau-lakes","category-rideau-lakes-ontario","category-things-to-do","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-rideau-lakes-heritage-symposium","tag-rideau-lakes-on","tag-westport-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57945,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/57945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}