This presentation will examine the various ways that women in Oxford County became entangled with the criminal justice system in the later 19th & early 20th centuries. According to records from the Oxford County jail, local women purportedly committed a variety of crimes, ranging from vagrancy and prostitution to public drunkenness and murder. Despite the popular belief that Victorian and Edwardian women were virtuous, moral, and law-abiding, evidence from Oxford County reinforces the possibility that many women did engage in criminal acts, resulting in high-profile trials, significant jail time, and slanderous stories in the local press.

Oxford County representative of Ontario Barn Preservation, Shane Klassen, will give insight into preserving our historic cathedrals of the fields; barn architecture, cultural history and contribution to our rural landscape.  Barn owners will learn how to preserve, renovate and repurpose their barns, as well as information on preserving old barns in a digital format to record the characteristics and history of Oxford County barns

Born and raised in Norwich, Ontario, Ross Butler was a self-taught artist who made a lasting impression on the agricultural and art communities in Canada and the United States. Working out of his studio overlooking the Woodstock Town Square, Butler was commissioned by the Ontario government in the 1930's to paint "true types" for Canadian livestock breed standards to be used for agricultural education and breeding purposes.

The Potter's Field at the Ingersoll Rural Cemetery is a section with nearly 400 unmarked graves for community members from a lower socio-economic status. This presentation will demonstrate the ways that Western University, the Town of Ingersoll, and the Township of Zorra are remembering the lives of those buried there, including those who were formerly enslaved and those who were unhoused.

Oxford County Library - The art of Alice Amelia Innes 1883-1970

Oxford County Archives

Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum - Milkmen & Milk Bottles

Beachville District Museum - Bedrock of Beachville: The History of our Limestone Quarries

Oxford Ancestors – Ontario Genealogy Society

Ingersoll Pipe Band

Plattsville & District Heritage

Zorra Heritage Committee - Historically: Lost villages of Zorra

Ontario Barn Preservation

Harrington Grist Mill
Hats & Heritage - experience fabulous hats of the past!