Exhibits

Fairbairn House Heritage Centre showing new exterior renovations. (Photo - Anita Rutledge)

A Heritage Tour of Wakefield Village in Quebec's Gatineau Hills

Wakefield is a small village nestled in the Gatineau hills along the shores of a scenic bay on the Gatineau River.

The Fairbairn House Heritage Centre, after extensive renovations to the exterior of the building in 2010. The house had served as the home for four different farm families before it was threatened with demolition to make way for new roads and modern housing. On two different occasions it was saved by people who believed that its history and heritage were too important to lose. With help from community leaders and later the Municipality of La Pêche, the house now sits safely in its seven-acre park near the

Fairbairn House Heritage Centre: Witness to the Story of the Gatineau Valley and the Hills Beyond

From the earliest times, nomadic Algonquin families canoed the Gatineau River, and in the 17th century fur traders arrived to do business with the Indigenous hunters.

Memories of Scotland by Percy Nobbs, 1938.
Percy Erskine Nobbs was born in 1875 in Haddington, Scotland. Although he spent much of his childhood in Russia, where his father was a banker, he returned to Scotland to pursue his studies before establishing himself in Canada. This mural was painted by Nobbs in the late 1930s and depicts his birthplace. The pink and blue tones of the painting mirror the wooden details of the ceiling of the summer sitting room where it stands above the fireplace. According to Nob

Greenwood: Its History and Collections: “Remembering Percy Nobbs”

The Greenwood Centre for Living History is not your typical museum.