Scugog Shores Museum Village and Archives receives grant funding for environmental programming

Scugog – The Scugog Shores Museum is receiving a grant of $14,000 through the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, to support land stewardship programming on site at the museum. The TD funding program supports a wide range of environmental initiatives, with a primary funding focus on revitalizing, animating, and stewarding public green spaces.

This investment will go towards the Museum’s Ojibway Heritage Interpretive Lands (OHIL) revitalization project. OHIL was created in 1997 in collaboration with the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation (MSIFN). Thanks to the generous funding of the MSIFN, the Wigwam on the site will be revitalized. Embracing these environmental initiatives, the Museum looks forward to providing an opportunity for learning, teaching, and reflection within the OHIL space. Community Services staff are working to create a living exhibit that includes propagating native plant species, rebuilding the Wigwam, and creating a teaching and pollinator garden in 2025.

The Scugog Shores Museum opens to the public on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, with multiple interactive opportunities powered by this funding. Visitors can also get a first look at a new exhibit that ties into environmental programming: the traveling exhibition, “Miijim: Traditional Foods of the Lake of the Woods Anishinaabe,” is launching opening weekend.

More details on upcoming Museum events and programs created from this investment can be found on our Museums page.

Quote from Scugog Mayor Wilma Wotten

“The Scugog Shores Museum Village is a vital heritage and educational centre for our community. The collaborative education exhibits and artifacts tell the shared history of our township, educates on the history of the MSIFN and I am thankful for our collaboration in the betterment of the site. Thank you to staff for engaging with funding opportunities like the TD Friends of the Environment foundation to continue the needed revitalization work of the grounds.”

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