"I’m grateful not to be harvesting blocks of ice from the lake for a living, but I think that the story of the ice industry is quite intriguing. " www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/.../island-b... Posted by Everyday Lillie. #SaveOntarioBarns

Ontario Outhouses - www.facebook.com/groups/74507... Posted by Andrew Hind.

Build an Hotel in your Old Barn? #SaveOntarioBarns www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/3333/Th...

Barns taken down by the wind in PEI. peiheritagebuildings.blogspot.com/2020/04/two-... I've been asked about other groups like OBP in Canada. I found this weblog. If you have an interest in PEI history and built heritage, take a look at the other posts. #SaveOntarioBarns

Helping to keep you up with the latest trends... I've found chicken yoga. You might want to get into this new fitness fad. farmingpedia.com/what-is-chicken-yoga-explained You can catch the open house, including chicken yoga in Perth, Ontario, the chicken sanctuary - www.secondhandstories.ca

How to Tell How Old Your Barn is: A Brief History of Barn-building Inventions - www.antiquebuildingsolutions.com/post/how-to-... #SaveOntarioBarns

OBP on CBC - Ontario Barn Preservation group turning its attention to the north 'Once the history is gone there's nothing.. we need to preserve rural history,' says John Busch. #SaveOntarioBarns www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Island Barn Mystery Part One - Posted to our site by Everyday Lillie. www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/08/05/i... #SaveOntarioBarns

www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/07/14/i... #SaveOntarioBarns Shonna Giles is a retired teacher looking for barns from all across Ontario. Each area has a unique history and stories that she would like to showcase.

Posting for International Moon Day. #SaveOntarioBarns

Wainfleet, Ontario barn is an animal sanctuary. www.assmenageriesanctuary.com #SaveOntarioBarns

Are you still cleaning up broken trees and branches? This is from the current/ May issue of Farm View. farmviewonline.com/pdfs/250501F... #SaveOntarioFarms

Build your own red barn postcard. Sent by Don. #SaveOntarioBarns

Louden Barn Plans - archive.org/details/LoudenBarnPlans/mode/1up #SaveOntarioBarns

Take a look at pages 62 to 68 for the barn plans. ia801601.us.archive.org/13/items/Wes... #SaveOntarioBarns

Pinterest, the site, is a maze of amazing stuff (and ads). You may not find what you're looking for but several other even more interesting things will show up along the way. This came up today. No context with it, just this barn plan. #SaveOntarioBarns

Barn near Beckwith, Ontario. ca.pinterest.com/pin/57350533... #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting

Bank Barns from the Furry Gnome in Ontario - seasonsinthevalley.blogspot.com/2014/12/bank... #BarnSpotting #SaveOntarioBarns

An Itinerant Historian With a Camera - Part 3. "With easy access to rural country roads and old barns, he found great satisfaction “preserving the past for the future” with his barn photographs until he died in 2019." www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/04/14/a... #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting

Ontario photo, cattle buyers in the 1940's. #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting www.flickr.com/photos/jockr...

Peter Bowrin's farm from the air taken in the 1950's. This was also the home of Iola Bowrin after Peter died. The farm is located on Goodstown Road". Taken in January 1950. #SaveOntarioBarns #Barnspotting www.flickr.com/photos/jockr...

Eddie Goods Farm at Richmond - Farm in Goodstown area at Richmond Ontario owned when this photo was taken by Eddie Good. Taken in July 1940. www.flickr.com/photos/jockr... #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting

Father & Son RESTORE 300-year-old Barn.. [80 Day Timelapse] www.youtube.com/watch?v=K75p...

Casting a New Foundation | Restoring a 100 Year Old Barn! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq2Y...

Photo by Michael Didur -"This was my grandparents farm at 1045 Line 4 Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario". #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting www.flickr.com/photos/didur...

Bradford, Ontario barn to go. I hope there are photographs to document this old barn. www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/h... #SaveOntarioBarns

Original painting titled “Silo” by regional artist Elizabeth Jarvis (Canadian, 20th Century). Location is Grimsby, Ontario. www.ebay.ca/itm/32602708...

Part Two - An Itinerant Historian With a Camera www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/04/07/a... Calling themselves “Wandering anthropologists” “Itinerant Historians” or “Barn-again Christians” they would set out and stop at the sight of a barn. Shouts of “Stop. Back up” or “Turn around and go left”

An Itinerant Historian With a Camera - www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/03/31/a... “When people say, ‘There used to be a barn here,’ it is too late.” photojournalist, Gordon Beck. Claudia Smith met with Gordon Beck several times #SaveOntarioBarns #BarnSpotting

Carter Farm - Norval Ontario Painted en plein air Sunday August 14, 2016.

Four80East four80east.com has their jazz music studio inside a barn in rural Ontario. #SaveOntarioBarns lostandfoundsounds.blog/2025/02/02/f...

Farms, Barns, and Preservation: with Barbara Heidenreich - Barbara Heidenreich sent this link to share preview.shorthand.com/0nHcPVYdy4Lc... #SaveOntarioBarns Thank you Barb.

Video post from Darwin McGrath. 130 Year Old Timber Frame Barn Inspection - Rob (Whippletree Timber Framing) does a walkthrough of a large old barn. youtu.be/THlsb34px4c

Here's an interesting link I found tonight - rainalgoma.ca - The Rural Agri-Innovation Network (RAIN) is a division of Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre with support from farmers and communities to enhance the agriculture and food sector in Algoma.

I've been thinking how much farther the barns on these lands have deteriorated than the houses. There would have been barns on almost every rural location back in the 1970's. This barn photo comes from Altona, Hiking in the GTA'. hikingthegta.com/2022/12/03/a... #SaveOntarioBarns

Education in Eramosa: Part 2 – Exploring the OAC Dairy Barns Posted by Emma Rutledge #SaveOntarioBarns #RuralHistory #BuiltHistory www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/03/03/o...

Barn, 2nd Concession, Smithfield, Ontario postcard, 1908 - vitacollections.ca/brightonarch... #SaveOntarioBarns

North Barn Pro (you can find them on our Specia-List www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/resources-di... ) have a post about choosing colours for when painting and repairing your barn. northprobarnpainting.com/choosing-the... #SaveOntarioBarns

Have you seen our video about Ontario Barn Preservation and how we started? #SaveOntarioBarns youtu.be/vwaWHJjZipY?...

Origins and Historical Context of the Idiom “smell the barn” crossidiomas.com/smell-the-ba... #SaveOntarioBarns Culturally, this idiom may have originated from agricultural practices where horses would smell their own barns when returning home after a long day’s work.

Blue barn, Stouffville, Ontario. #SaveOntarioBarns

"Endangered species and their habitat are automatically protected". Says the Ontario government website for "species at risk" www.ontario.ca/page/species... (NHIC) Rare species of Ontario inaturalist.ca/projects/nhi...

Learn how to detect and manage deterioration in concrete tower silos. This technical information is for Ontario farmers. - Government of Ontario website #SaveOntarioBarns www.ontario.ca/page/deterio...

If you have an old barn, have you checked the electrical in order to prevent a fire? Here is a guide from the Ontario Government site. It can be downloaded as a pdf file. - Electrical Systems in Barns - www.ontario.ca/page/electri... #SaveOntarioBarns

Rural Historical Farmsteads in Ontario - tmhc.ca/rural-histor... #SaveOntarioBarns ...archaeology can provide a wealth of knowledge that cannot be found in census data, history textbooks or in the literature written during that time.

Barn Snow Removal: Dos and Don’ts - www.zehrinsurance.com/agricultural... #SaveOntarioBarns

This morning, at our monthly (online) meeting, the conversation turned to barn roofs collapsing under the weight of the snow. After the meeting I went looking for information about heavy snowfall on barn roofs in particular. Snow Removal for Barn Roofs - m.farms.com/ag-industry-...

No doubt you can find some great places for #barnspotting with all this snow. Have fun but drive/ walk safely. Or just stay home and look out the window.

Education in Eramosa - Part 1 – Exploring Farmer Tim’s Historic Barns Written by Emma Rutledge. #SaveOntarioBarns www.ontariobarnpreservation.com/2025/02/10/e...

www.theweathernetwork.com/en/video/PRr... Not barn related but fun to see. (Laura)