News & Events

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 11 a.m.
Historical Room, Newcastle Community Hall

• Find out what we’ve been doing for the past year
• Elect the 2024-2025 Board of Directors
• Participate in our fun and informative Show and Tell
• Enjoy a light lunch afterwards

The meeting portion will be short and then it will be on to the fun of sharing our interesting items of historical interest. Found some mysterious items when cleaning out the basement at Grandma’s? Or something amazing at a garage sale last summer? Bring it in and share at our very own Newcastle mini “Antiques Roadshow.”

Notice is hereby given of motion to amend by-laws at the Annual General Meeting, April 12, 2025, 11 a.m. at the Newcastle Village and District Historical Society, 20 King Ave. W., Newcastle, ON.

By-law 8.01 Members to be amended to add phrase in italics.

3. Corporate Members shall be individuals representing a corporation, who have paid for a Corporate membership in the Society or who have donated more than $100 in a year.

Explanation: Amendment to the by-law adds membership in the society as a benefit/privilege for those corporations that make donations of $100 or more in a year.

We’d like to give a shout out to these local businesses and individuals for their generous donations to support the work of the Newcastle Village and District Historical Society. If you are interested in donating or becoming a member you can do that online or drop by to see what we are all about, any Saturday or Tuesday morning, 9:30 to noon.

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
10 a.m. to noon
Historical Room, Newcastle Community Hall

Join us at the NVDHS to share your memories and photos of life in Clarington for the Golden Tales project! Through our Golden Tales project, we are collecting stories and images from local seniors about their personal histories of life in Clarington which will be shared and preserved for future generations.

A brief history of the Walbridge House and the beginnings of Methodism in Newcastle, Ontario. Presentation prepared by Brian Jose for the 200th anniversary of Newcastle United Church in 2024.

Come meet the directors and your fellow members and enjoy lots of Christmas treats, mulled cider, special children’s Christmas craft and Christmas music. We’ll be open from 9:30 a.m. to noon and look forward to seeing you all!

With the help of summer students and our volunteers, we’ve been busy cataloguing and documenting our collection, but we still have lots to do.

We’ve been using our new museum software (CatalogIt) for a while now, and it allows us to mount online slide shows, and makes managing, searching and sharing our collection much easier.

Your continued support has helped facilitate this move, and we are thrilled to be able to show you our first two online exhibits – one featuring our collection of holiday cards, and another of winter scenes in and around Newcastle.

We hope you’ll enjoy the first two of our online exhibits showcasing aspects of our collection of artifacts and documents. We have been hard at work over the past few years digitizing our collection – first in museum software which we ran locally, and now in CatalogIt which allows us to easily mount online exhibits and show the community and beyond at least a small portion of our extensive collection.

Our first two exhibits highlight some of our holiday card collection (some of them 140 years old) and some winter scenes in and around Newcastle.