The Pelee Island Heritage Centre aspires to research, collect and preserve the evidence of the Island’s (and neighbours’) human history, to protect the community’s natural heritage, and to educate the public about our combined heritage through exhibits, publications, special presentations and our extended stay education program. It is understood, moreover, that the Heritage Centre, through the benefit of hindsight, should play a role in informing current community planning issues.
Current Exhibits on Display:
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The Middle Devonian Setting: invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology.
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The archaeology of Pelee: our first visitors and settlers
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The arrival of Europeans and the McCormicks.
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Stories of crossing the ice in winter.
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Early commercial fishing.
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Quarrying and early stone exports.
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The Battle of Pelee Island.
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Women in our midst: Hannah Harris
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The Schooner Adelaide
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The mega-project of draining the Big Marsh
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The nineteenth century wine industry on Pelee Island
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Shipwrecks of the Western Basin
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Local lighthouses
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The telephone exchange
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The early surveyors
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Prohibition days: life on Middle Island
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The geology of Pelee and Middle Islands
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Carolinian Trees of Pelee and Middle Island
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Mammals of Pelee Island
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Extirpated Species
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Pelee Island Species at risk
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The beauty of it (nature) all: portraits
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