North Buxton and Home

We spent Wednesday morning at a wonderful museum in North Buxton, Ontario. This was the location of a settlement of freed slaves. It was started by Rev. King who owned 12 (I think) slaves and moved them to the North Buxton area. When they arrived in Canada of course they were free - Rev. Kings whole point to moving to Canada and he developed a settlement for them called the Elgin Settlement. Each freed slave could purchase 10 acres of land at $2.50 an acre. It needed to be paid off within 10 years at an interest rate of 6%. Each land owner had to abide by certain rules of the settlement including how big the house should be, putting in a vegetable garden and a picket fence out front. Sounds like our association rules!! We were able to tour a log cabin from the time of the settlement and their school. I loved the school!! When our wonderful tour guide and museum curator told us they had 100 students from first to twelth grade I didn't think it was the place I wanted to work! We had a wonderful time at this museum and felt very welcomed.

The next museum we had hoped to go to was closed - it is a small family run museum and they had people out of town so weren't open today. Instead we hunted down several lighthouses in the area and then headed home.

We stopped to see the grandkids as soon we got to town and then over to mother's before pulling into the driveway with a total of 2899.2 miles under our belts!!

Even though our trip is over stay tuned to my blog as I report on quilts made and other tidbits. My next blog will be the highlights and lowlights of our trip. But hands down we agree this was the best sight in the last two weeks.