How Victorians in Osgoode Faced Death: Mourning Traditions and Daily Life

📚Lecture: "How Victorians in Osgoode Faced Death: Mourning Traditions and Daily Life"

⏱️Time: 7-9pm (Lecture + Q&A and socializing)

🎤Speaker: Holly Benison (Programs Coordinator, Osgoode Township Musuem)

This Tipsy Scholars talk aims to 'part the veil' on Victorian mourning traditions. Informed by the artifacts housed in the museums' collection, we will take you on a journey through the near cult-like practices around death in the Victorian era (1837-1901), hyper-focused on rural Ottawa. After discussing the material culture of death, we will take you through a M**der trial that rocked the region: The Winchester Axe Murders. How did mourning culture develop? How did people in rural Ottawa mark this transition? Why was Clark Brown compelled to violence? Seek and you shall find the answers...

Holly Benison is the Program's Coordinator at The Osgoode Township Museum, located in rural South Ottawa on the traditional unceeded ancestral land of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people. The museum opened in 1973 and tells the story of the people and heritage of Osgoode Township and the role that rural heritage plays in the life of our city. Collections-based programming, reenacting studies, social and culinary history all inform Benison's practice in developing programs at the site. The museum is open year-round.

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Lowertown Brewery, ByWard Market, 73 York Street, Ottawa, Canada

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