At Ross Farm Museum you can ride in a
horse drawn wagon, see, taste and smell good food being prepared
in Rose Bank Cottage, watch the cooper making barrels, see various
types of farm animals and much much more.
Once the home of five generations of the Ross family, the farm
was first cleared from the forest in 1816. The museum shows how
the early settlers and their descendants lived and coped with
the land around them.
Aerial View of Ross Farm Museum
The Pedlar's Shop
Products made as demonstrations in the shops as part of the Museum's
programs are often available in the museum's gift store, along
with community made items & souvenirs.
Visitor Centre
Here you can find out what special activities are going on at
the farm. We may be churning butter, shoeing an ox, baking rhubarb
pies in the farm kitchen's brick oven or demonstrating other
rural skills to help make your visit an educational and exciting
one. A picnic area outside is a great spot for a family picnic.
There is also limited picnic space inside this building.
Schoolhouse (1907)
Generations of families in the New Ross area were educated in
this one-roomed school. It was moved from the community to this
site. This is a school house from the early 1900's. Visitors
can write on old slate boards and get a feeling of going to school
in a small rural community. It is very different than the mega
schools of today..
Ross Barn 1893
This is believed to be the second barn on the property, and houses
our heritage animals. Our oxen reside here, along with Berkshire
pigs, Canadian Horses and, of course, the family milk cow. At
4:30PM every day, visitors can try their hand at milking a cow.
The upper level of the Barn houses one of Canada's most impressive
plough displays.
Farm Workshop (1870)
The Farm Workshop was where repairs to the farm impliments
& equipment were done and wooden items such as stools, axe
handles, butter churns, and spoons were made. Today, the workshop
is much the same. Visitors can watch the work and can help with
some of it depending on the demonstration of the day.
Rose Bank Cottage
(1817)
Rose Bank Cottage, the original home of the Ross family,
is always bustling with activity. While visiting you can taste
homemade cooking fresh from an open hearth, or try your hand
at whatever demonstration is taking place such as wool spinning,
candle making or butter churning. It is hard to resist tasting
the offerings when the cottage is full of aromatic smells.
Stave Mill
Here the specially shaped pieces of wood for making barrels
and shingles are made from spruce and fir cut from the neighboring
wood lots.
Larder Barn (1905)
Larder Barn displays many of the more than 3,000 artifacts in
the Ross Farm Museum collection including an impressive collection
of land transportation vehicles. A fully equipped Pedlar's Wagon
is one of the prize exhibits. Demonstrations of farm workmanship
often take place in this barn.
Blacksmith Shop (1910)
An important member of the rural community, the blacksmith forges
horse and ox shoes and many other metal parts and objects.
Cooper Shop
Chat with the cooper and find out how apple barrels and tubs
are made, and the importance this industry had on small rural
communities.
