Melissa Shaw has been with the Collingwood Museum for 19 years. She holds a master’s degree in English Literature and is a recent graduate of the University of Victoria’s Cultural Resource Management program. Melissa prides herself in being an active participant in Collingwood’s arts and cultural sector and strives to create meaningful and lasting relationships with local organizations through exhibitions and programming opportunities.
 
Snippets from Collingwood’s Past:
For the past eight years, the Collingwood Museum has been writing near-monthly articles about Collingwood’s past in Collingwood Today. Topics cover everything from parks, sports, and fires to the many industries, businesses, and people that have shaped our community into the present day. Join Museum Supervisor Melissa Shaw as she dives into some of the lesser-known stories from Collingwood’s past, featuring photographs and artifacts from the Collingwood Museum’s collection.

Speakers, 2024

January: Kelly O’Neil, Public Relations and Communications Manager, Hospice Georgian Triangle.

February: Amanda Pegg, Executive Director, Town of Collingwood

March: OPP Constable Trevor McKean, Fraud Awareness and Prevention

April: Will Goertz, Casinos and a whole lot more.

May: Mike Hiltz, The Canadarm..A Canadian Success Story

June: Ted Barris Video Interview with Jim Deeks of Canada Files

July: Andrew Kirsch, Former CSIS officer, Author, ‘I Was Never Here’.

August: Nancy Esson, Right At Home, Health care in the home.

September: Peter Lang, Nuclear Power.

October: Malcolm G Kelly, Canada’s Sports Century

November: Jane Fleetwood-Morrow, WW11 Through An Unseen Lens.

December: Julian Bayley, ‘Ice Sculptures That Worked’

Speakers, 2025

January: Dave Hanna,’ The World of Commercial Diving’.

February: Tim Morawetz, ‘Canada’s Art Deco Heritage’.

March: Paul Weatherhead, Navigating Cyber Threats.

April: Tony Pigott, Georgian Bay Ecopark.

May: Eric Pootmans, Former Snowbird Pilot

June: David Sweetnam, Microplastics in Our Water

July 3: Jarvis Strong, Escarpment Corridor Alliance

August: Deb Dougherty, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust

September: John Arnone, ” Us and Them”- The Beatles”

October: Judge Norm Douglas, ” You Be The Judge”

November: Collingwood Mayor, Yvonne Hamlin

December: John Carswell, Travelling the Arctic

Speakers, 2026

February: Bill Franks”Living Off the Land In the Arctic”

March: Sandra Taylor and Cathy Renaud, Collingwood’s new Hospital

April 2: Michael Pearson, Family Letters from Prime Minister Lester B Pearson.

May 7: COO Andrew McNeil, Deputy Mayor, Tanya Snell, Town of Wasaga Beach.

June: O.P.P Constable Sarah Hendrick Canine Unit.

August: Constable Helena Beck, Seniors Fraud

September: Douglas Hunter,The Wreck of the Waubenon