The museum, which is housed in Christ Church, houses important historical artifacts and displays of Christ Church and the 1855 burial grounds, the Strickland family history, Lakefield’s literary history (Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Margaret Laurence), and pictorial displays of Lakefield from the late 1800′s.

The Christ Church Burials Records covering a span of thirty years from 1855 to 1886, give us an interesting picture of life–and death–in the small village of Lakefield in the 19th century.

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