The Durham West Arts Centre is a 'hub' organization working to establish links with artists, arts groups and arts lovers. We host exhibitions, activities and events at the Centre as attractors. We want to meet and talk to the groups and individuals who are willing to help build the infrastructure for a permanent arts centre in Ajax-Pickering.
Thomsons of Durham Bus Tour
Thursday, September 29, 2005 starting at 9 a.m.
The Pickering Township Historical Society and the Durham West Arts Centre partner to take you to places important to the Thomson family in Durham Region. As well as the two Thomson stone homes, where Tom and five of his siblings were born, you will visit gravesites, favourite fishing places and historic Claremont where the Thomson family shopped, worshipped and visited friends and family. You will go to a few additional places of note to round out the historic highlights of this area of Durham Region.
Experience the verdant rolling hills, stone houses and stories of pioneer days in Pickering Township followed by tea and treats on the DWAC terrace.
Tickets: $40 for members and $50 for non-members.
Book your tickets today by calling 905.686.7697 or download pdf ticket order form.
More on Tom Thomson, his family and roots in Durham at DWAC:
An Astounding Exhibition Comes to Durham; Art Exhibition;(features three original Tom Thomson paintings plus works by Fraser, George, Henry Thomson, Helen Fisk Young, Margaret Tweedale and an 1832 sampler by Elizabeth Brodie, Tom Thomson's grandmother); Book Talks; Bus Tour; Music in the Thomson Homes; The Thomsons of Durham: Tom Thomson's Family Heritage the book; What the Thomsons Read; Download pdf book order form for The Thomsons of Durham: Tom Thomson's Family Heritage.