For the past few years, our organization has provided Haliburton House Museum with several dozen tree seedlings each year, which the Site Manager and the museum staff have planted. This year, we were able to provide a larger quantity of a few thousand trees, and our own planting team did the majority of the planting work.
Haliburton House was constructed around 1830 as the home of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a famous Canadian author and politician. Haliburton is a somewhat controversial figure to celebrate, as his writings reflect the outdated and offensive racial and cultural views of his era. So even though his literary contributions and role in Canada's cultural history are significant, that history is problematic for the Nova Scotia Museum organization. Not surprisingly, they are altering the way that Haliburton's legacy is portrayed.
In 1844, one of Haliburton's books ("Sam Slick in England") mentioned boys playing "hurley on the ice" in Windsor. Indirectly related to that reference, there is a former pond drainage on the museum grounds which is referred to locally as the birthplace of hockey. While there is some controversy surrounding this claim, the Windsor area is quite proud of this heritage.
Here's an overview graphic of part of central Nova Scotia (courtesy of Google Earth), showing the location of Haliburton House:
Michael, the Site Manager, has been very interested in our environmental work for the past several years, and as already noted, we were originally able to connect with him a few years ago by supplying some deciduous and conifer seedlings for the museum grounds. This year, we were able to supply a much larger quantity of seedlings, so our team visited the site for a day to tackle the planting work. We planted trees in half a dozen select locations around the museum grounds, in order to help diversify and thicken some of the existing tree stands and drainages.
Here are a few photos from our work in 2023:
You can see more photos of our tree planting work at this site by visiting our public Planting Photos folder on Dropbox. Go into the 2023 sub-folder, then go into the "Haliburton House" sub-folder.
We'd like to thank Michael for having us, and for taking the time to share some of the history of this very interesting site!
If you'd like to learn more about Windsor's Haliburton House Museum, visit their website:
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Replant.ca Environmental is a Canadian company that plants trees for carbon capture and builds community forests. We also plant trees in national, provincial, and municipal public parks to mitigate damage from wildfires, storms, insects, and forest diseases. We operate thanks to numerous small contributions from the general public, in addition to larger project sponsorships from businesses, corporations, and NGO's around the world. If you'd like to learn how to show your support, visit our donations page. Even if you aren't able to make a contribution, we very much appreciate when people are able to share our posts or our website link on social media, to help spread the word about the work that we're doing!
To learn more about the various species that we plant, visit the conifers page or the deciduous (hardwoods) page on our website. Thanks so much for your interest!
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