Merrick Thomas Farm House Museum

Doors Open, early settler’s house

This is right beside Oakville’s First Post Office so we went here next. Visiting hours posted at the door said 1:30PM-4PM on select days but since Thomas House is a Doors Open participant, it was open...

Maintaining the pioneeer atmosphere

Easily accessible in a beautiful lakeside park in downtown Oakville, the Thomas House offers a relaxed look at how our forbears lived. Manned by costumed volunteers from the Oakville Historical Socie...

Fascinating glimpse into the past

While this is a glimpse of our past it really isn't that long ago that the inhabitants of the Oakville are (and elsewhere in SW Ontario) were living in cabins and farmhouses main from the logs of tree...