In this episode we showcase one of our town’s prominent boat building families, the Morrills. Through successes and setbacks they made this community a better place to live and work and along the way they also made a well deserved name for themselves. We discuss the value of hard work and determination in both seeing the opportunities before us and taking advantage of them when they arise. We ask the question “What opportunities are just waiting for you to seize?” And finally, we take the opportunity to let you know about the museum’s reopening plans as Ontario moves through its steps toward life as normal. Watch our Facebook page for more details to come!

Episode Picture:

Morrill Boat Float, 1914 [Collingwood Museum Collection X970.725.1]

Research:

Shaw, Melissa. “Collingwood's other boat builder spotted in this 1914 parade photo” CollingwoodToday.ca, November 3, 2019. https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/remember-this/collingwoods-other-boat-builder-spotted-in-this-1914-parade-photo-1824691

Barbara Arp, ed., Reflections An Historical Anthology of Collingwood (Collingwood: The Corporation of the Town of Collingwood, 1983), 33, 285. Leithead, Maggie. Collingwood Skiffs & Side Launches (Collingwood Museum, Collingwood, 1994), 7.