Ross Farm Museum

Staff at the Ross Farm Museum will demonstrate hat making using strips of wood known as "sheens" stripped from freshly-gathered yellow-birch logs

At Ross Farm today hear the roar of the saws and the smell of the freshly cut spruce and balsam fir as the mill produce barrel staves and heads for our cooperage shop. At the cooperage shop you will see our cooper building the various types of barrels.

In early days, children attended a small one room school house.  Step back in time and become a student again.  Learn about the need for proper figuring skills, and the importance of good penmanship, at the Ross Farm Museum..

Making hats by braiding natural fibres is considered an art by some, but at one time, it was simply a fact of life.  During the late 18th to early 19th centuries, the wearing of straw hats by farmers and laborers was quite common in both North America and Europe, since the materials were inexpensive and...Read more >

New this summer is a "How To" series where New Ross community members share their expertise.  Learn how to do or make something and take it home!  The How To's are held 9-10am on Sundays before the market opens.  Presenters will bring all the materials you need to make the How To happen.  To learn...Read more >

At the Ross Farm, you can hear the roar of the saws and the smell of the freshly cut spruce and balsam fir as the mill produce barrel staves and heads for our cooperage shop.