WELCOME TO A VIRTUAL TOUR OF HISTORIC BOVAIRD HOUSE

ENTRANCE This possibly was the true summer kitchen as per Amelia Chisholm’s memoirs It now houses a McLaughlin cutter with lap robe and bear skin and assorted farm implements (wooden shovel, rake, hay fork, crosscut saw, etc…) It also contains the original bake oven used by Peter Chisholm – it very possibly was free standing when his log cabin was just to the north of this site and was later incorporated into the kitchen addition. Note the baker’s ‘peel’ used to remove hot items from the oven - it is hand-carved from one piece of wood Fire was built in the oven until the right temperature was attained (you tested it for bread by inserting an arm in the oven for 20-30 seconds without burning the hair on your arm). The ashes were scraped out and items to be baked added as the oven cooled The dry sink is Norfolk County (circa 1850) and has some restoration work. This is how the dishes would have been washed without indoor plumbing. Soap was made from animal fats and lye The second room is now used as an office but originally it might have been used by the hired help and for additional storage These rooms seem always to have had a plastered ceiling and whitewashed walls and originally a floor of stone flags