210 Main Street, Marrick, in the old post office.

Call 555-0142
MARRICK MUSEUM
Main Street in 1915, in black and white: the brick post office with POST OFFICE across its top, a man by the door, a horse and wagon in the dirt street, and the shops and the lake beyond.

About the museum.

The Marrick & District Historical Society has kept the town's story since 1964. We moved into the old post office in 1978.

The society.

A group of Marrick families started the society in 1964. They wanted the photographs, letters and tools in their attics kept together, and kept in town.

We are a registered charity, run by our members. Every member gets a vote at the AGM, so the people who keep the museum open decide where it goes next.

Everything in the collection came from somebody in Marrick. We still take donations of photos, papers and objects with a Marrick story.

Founded
1964
In the post office since
1978
Address
210 Main Street, Marrick
Staff
2, plus 2 summer students
Volunteers
About 40
The counter hall inside the museum: a long oak counter with brass-barred wicket windows, worn fir floorboards, a wooden bench and tall arched windows.

The building.

The post office went up on Main Street in 1912. It is brick, with POST OFFICE carved in the stone across the top of the front.

Every letter in Marrick crossed this counter until a new post office opened in 1975. The building sat empty for three years. In 1978 the society moved in and opened the museum.

The counter hall and three galleries are on the main floor. Upstairs, in the postmaster's old apartment, are two more galleries and the reading room.

In 2009 we added a lift and a side door with no steps, on Mill Street. See how to get in and get around.

The town, in seven dates.

Marrick grew where a steamer landing met a railway and a mill. The museum tells all three.

An oak post office wicket with an arched brass grille, the brass worn bright along the bottom.
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The post office wicket

Every letter in Marrick passed under it from 1912 to 1975.

The town ledger, franked at the counter

  1. 1893: The landing

    The SS Wenlock brings mail, freight and settlers up the lake. Alder Marrick keeps the landing store and becomes the first postmaster. The town takes his name.

  2. 1907: The railway

    The railway arrives along the east shore. Freight now moves from the steamer to the train at Marrick.

  3. 1911: The mill

    The Merrin Creek mill opens. It still runs today.

  4. 1912: The post office

    Built on Main Street in brick, with a carved stone lintel.

  5. 1964: The society

    The Marrick & District Historical Society is founded.

  6. 1978: The museum

    The society moves into the old post office and opens the museum.

  7. 2009: The side door

    A lift and a step-free side entrance are added.

Who you'll meet.

  • Executive Director and Curator

    Margaret Thiessen

    “If you find your grandmother in the 1931 school photo, come and tell me first. I keep a list.”

  • Collections and Archives Coordinator

    Dev Brar

    “Bring me the shoebox of photos from your closet. I'll show you how we keep them, and which ones we'd love to copy.”

  • About 40 volunteers

    At the counter, in the archives, on the walking tours and at every Naming Night. Two summer students join us each year.

    Volunteer with us

Our land acknowledgement

A real museum writes this in its own words, together with the Nations whose land it stands on. That work takes months of conversation, and the words belong to them.

Marrick is an invented town, so we won't invent a Nation or put words in anyone's mouth. This concept leaves the space open, and leaves the words to them.