BARRHEAD CENTENNIAL MUSEUM

In early 1962, over a coffee in Charlie Yuill's Cafe in Barrhead, Frank Thompson and Bill Sutherland launched the idea of a historical society. There was a disappointingly small turnout at the first meeting in February, ten ambitious individuals in total. The expressed aims of the society were to compile the history of the Barrhead area, and to build a museum to house artifacts. And, much like today, "Progress was slow. Membership was small. Ideas were big. Funds were nil."

 

1967 was not only Canada's Centennial Year, but the year the Historical Society procured enough funding to publish a history book, Trails Northwest (now in its second printing), and to build The Barrhead Centennial Museum (now greatly enlarged).

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Since its inception, The Barrhead & District Historical Society has been a non-profit, volunteer-run organization.

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