The document summarizes the history presented to a group of Pathfinder Girls during a tour of the Lynde House Museum in Whitby, Ontario. It discusses how Jabez Lynde, an early settler, immigrated from the United States in search of a better life and built a log cabin beside Lynde Creek. It also highlights how the museum tells stories that represent Canada's diversity and the many countries that early immigrants originated from. The girls learn how their own family histories fit within Canada's cultural mosaic and the role the Lynde House played in the country's development.

1. Nations Represented Here Tonight
America
Australia
Canada (18th generation)
England
Trinidad
France
Germany
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Lebanon
Lithuania
Malta
Netherlands - Holland
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Scotland
Venezuela
Wales
Welcome Pathfinder Girls!
People in your group are representative of the many countries of
origin that make up our Canadian population. Together you are a
microcosm of our heritage!
The stories our museum tell also represent a microcosm of the
history of Upper Canada as it was called before Confederation in
1867.
All of us tell our stories of what it means to be Canadian.
Let’s see how the history of your ancestors and your family fit
within the Patchwork Quilt that is CANADA as it relates to our
museum and its stories.

3. Lynde House Museum
How the history of
Lynde House in
Whitby
is representative
of the making of
Canada

4. Jabez Lynde brought his family to Upper Canada as it was called then in search of a better life
about 1803. It was a great journey. He and his wife Clarissa brought their baby Sylvester Lynde
with them. They settled beside a creek and built a log cabin. They made friends with First
Nations People who lived across the creek, now called Lynde Creek.
Though they immigrated from the United States, when England and the US fought in the War of
1812, Jabez Lynde provided a place for people to gather provisions for the fight and
a place to rest and recover from wounds afterwards.
Jabez Lynde’s eldest sons, Sylvester and Hawkins, were
put to service during the war employed as despatch
carriers showing a great deal of bravery as there was
much danger, to do this.
Their family, friends and relatives throughout the
years all made contributions to Canada!

5. Some of our ancestors
are First Nations Peoples
Some Early Settlers
Some are immigrants
from all over the world…
Together we make up
Canada
New archaeological evidence suggests that
North America has been inhabited for
50,000 years,
long before the last ice age.

6. Our Country is like a Patchwork Quilt
…an artful arrangement of people who
make up our colourful and interesting
heritage.

7. …tells stories of people that shaped
our lives and the way we live today!

8. People love history because it helps us understand where we are today.
Why do people migrate to a new land?
…For a better life, new friends
…More abundant food and shelter
…More Freedom
…A better place to raise a family
…More opportunity

9. Lynde House Museum & Visitor Centre is operated by
The Whitby Historical Society which was founded as a
Centennial Project in 1967.
A few people who lived in Whitby at that time thought it would be a good idea
start collecting the history of our area along with artifacts in order to be able to
share it with people in the future. We are those future people!
Now we have stories that give us a foundation so we can learn and share more.
It is important to collect your stories from your elders so that you can know
about and share things about your
life to future generations.
Every generation stands on the shoulders of the last one

10. For our Pathfinder who is an
18th generation Canadian…
A generation is now
considered to be 25 years
So… 18 times 25 equals 450
years.
2017 minus 450 years is
approx. the year 1567 so quite
possibly she is of First Nations
descent.
Evidence suggests that the first migrants to North America
were big-animal hunters that crossed the Bering
Strait from Eurasia over a land and ice bridge called Beringia,
that existed between 45,000 and 12,000 BCE There is
archaeological evidence for at least two separate migrations
between 8000–7000 BCE … a very long time ago indeed!
9000-8000 BCE - Hurons (originally known as the Wendat)
settled into Southern Ontario along the Eramosa River (near
Guelph). They were concentrated between Lake Simcoe and
Georgian Bay. We now know from an excavation that took
place near the 407 highway that they also lived in Whitby!
From about 500 BCE - Canada was populated by hundreds of
tribes of people, each with its own culture, customs, legends,
and character. Around the Great Lakes were the Annishnaube,
Algonquin, Iroquois and Wendat (Huron).
In 1534 – The French explorer, Jacques Cartier, led his first 1st
Voyage to the New World in search of a passage to Cathay (the
Orient). He discovered and charted the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert - First English Settlement.

11. Huron-Wendat, First Nation People who lived in Whitby
Village Model on
display in
Lynde House
Museum

12. A model of the Joseph Picard
archeological site found to be a former
Huron-Wendat Nation Settlement
originally stretched over a hectare of
land.
The site was found where the
407 highway now comes through
Whitby.
More than 120,000 artifacts
such as wooden beads, spearheads,
and pottery were found. This village
was about 9000-8000 BCE time period.

13. The model was made to represent artifacts found at the site

14. The model shows a village with corn planted, animal hides and fish drying. About 200 people lived here.

15. Here people are gathering around a central fire in the village

16. The detail shown in this model is fascinating as you can see from this close-up of a long house

17. Also in the Lynde House Museum is an extensive arrowhead collection, not part of the Picard Dig.

18. Canada is a wealthy country full of wildlife, fish, forests
and all manner of vegetation, it is no wonder the
world looks upon its treasures as a great place to come
and live.
Canada is full of opportunity!
The Irish famine brought many people to North
America.
Jabez Lynde who built Lynde House came originally
from the United States of America. His ancestor,
Deacon Thomas Lynde 1593-1671 came originally from
Bedfordshire, England and immigrated to
Massachusetts.

19. Willliam Warren and John Borlase Warren set off from
Cork, Ireland to seek their fortune in the New World
arriving in 1821.
As the story goes, J. B. Warren is accredited with starting
the first post office in 1823 out of their Hamars Corner
General Store. This was ten years prior to the first post
office in Toronto.
It just so happens that John Borlase Warren married one
of Jabez Lynde’s daughters, Clarissa Lynde Warren and
his brother William married Louise Lynde Warren.
First Post Office in the area was opened in Whitby

20. 45,000 BCE; Eurasian First
People Migration
8000–7000 BCE; Paleo
500 BCE; First Nation Tribes
1600s-1760; France
1700s; Britain
1715; African American
1783; United Empire
Loyalists from New York State
1815-1870; Scotland
1825-1850; Ireland
1825-1850; Wales
1825-1850; England
1850-1860; African Americans
(via the Underground Railroad)
1858-1900; China
1877-1911; Japan
1890-1930; Holland
The Peopling of Canada… a New Land
1970s; New Zealand
1970s; Nigeria
1970s; Norway
1970s; Chile and Latin America
1970-1990; Russia
1972-1973; Uganda
1979-1980; Vietnam
1981-1989; Iran
1988-1993; Hong Kong
1999; Kosovo
1999; Malta
1999; Australia
2004-2013; China
2004-2013; India
2004-2013; Filipins
2004-2013; Pakistan
2011 - 2017; Middle Eastern Countries
-with Worldwide Origins
1890-1930; United States
1891-1913; Ukraine
1901-1920; Italy
1921-1930; Finland
1947-1952; Central and Eastern
Europe
1947-1953; Britain
1947-1952; Germany
1951-1974; Portugal
1950s; Korea
1956; Hungary
1960-1969; Caribbean
1960-1970s; Spain & Mexico
1967-1990; Trinidad, Tobago
1968-1969; Czechoslovakia
1968-1969; Venezuela
1970s; Lebanon
1970s; Lithuania
1970s; Taiwan

21. People Bringing New Great Tasting Foods!
It has been said, “You don’t need to travel the world, you can taste every Exotic food in Toronto.”

22. Every successive migration of people seeking a better life in Canada have
made our country better. Our multi-cultural nation, like the previously mentioned
Patchwork Quilt, have many colourful cultures and heritages of their own which they have
brought with them creating our beautiful Canada!
Enjoying our Multi Cultural Country and having fun with friends.

23. Families all living in communities,
harmonizing, working together and
having fun.

24. Honouring and
Remembering those
who have come
before us

26. Lynde House Museum
has things to interest everyone.
Every artifact, photograph, book and
object of art has a story to tell.
Image Collage WHS Collection …a story in photographs and postcards

27. Ashburn Store
Photographs that show:
• how people lived,
• how they made a living,
• how they helped
each other.

28. Dry Goods Store

29. Matheson Bros.
Choice Dairy Butter
Whitby, Ontario
‘Dry Goods Stores’
‘Shops’
or
‘General Stores’
sold a wide variety of goods.

32. Plumbers are till very much needed today - How is tinsmithing relevant now?

33. Learn how
people in every era are
INVENTIVE
This is inspires us
to create and invent things!

34. See how things have changed
…and how they are the same

35. Lynde House Museum & Visitor Centre

36. Tours of Lynde House Museum & Visitor Centre are always fun.
Displays change with seasons and special events are exciting to attend!
Christmas at Lynde House

37. The Kitchen

38. The Music Room – with a one of a kind Rainer Piano made in Whitby

40. The Dining Room – at Christmas

41. The Front Parlor with the hand stencilled walls

42. The Front Parlor with a different arrangement
– we are always changing the look!

43. Master Bedroom Fireplace Mantel

44. Master Bedroom with the historic Gibbs Family bedroom suite

45. Spring has arrived at Lynde House Museum
Dining Room set for a Spring Tea Theme

47. The Kitchen with an old fashioned iron - and fresh bread ‘baked’ in the hearth

48. Kitchen showing Fireplace

49. Main
Floor
Hallway

50. Main Floor Hallway showing the sideboard and portrait display

51. Main Floor Rear Entrance …looking into the kitchen on the left.

52. Two views
of the
Music
Room
Teacakes
Anyone?

53. Xxx
Xxx The Front Parlor

54. The Upstairs Parlor …featuring the Prince of Wales Suite

55. Child’s
Bedroom

56. The New Display Room
Upstairs

57. The Arrowhead Exhibit and Joseph Picard Model Display

58. The Young Girls Room

59. The Young Girls Room

60. The Master Bedroom with the Gibb Family Suite

61. Thank you for visiting Lynde House Museum …Please come again

62. Lynde House Presentation for Pathfinder Girls
by
Trina Astor-Stewart – Copyright © 2017
Executive Director
Whitby Historical Society at Lynde House Museum & Visitor Centre
900 Brock Street South
Whitby, Ontario Canada L1N 4L6
905 665 3131
www.LyndeHouseMuseum.com