News & Events

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.

A talk by Judith Clapperton and James Breech

Wednesday, October 16 at 7 p.m., Newcastle Community Hall

Had They But Known Her is a work of historical fiction by former resident of Newcastle, Judith Clapperton, about the life of Olive Wilmot. Judith corrects the false information that Olive was reviled as a loose woman and depicted as the “prostitute” Mary Magdalene in the magnificent Tiffany stained glass window in the chancel of St. George’s Church, Newcastle.

Free admission and refreshments

We’ve posted a lot of our vintage movies (transferred) to YouTube for your enjoyment. From 1920s and 1930s movies of Newcastle residents to the Orono Fair from the 1920s to the 1960s, there is something interesting for everyone. Check it out!