Oshawa Community Museum

Welcome to Oshawa Community museums located at Lakeview Park on the north shore of Lake Ontario at Oshawa. Come experience a playground ready to enthrall you! The above photograph shows you how close we are to Lake Ontario! Guy House is on the right hand side.

Oshawa Community Museums have many events for visitors as well as tours of three museums. Victorian Tea in the garden at Henry House is a treat and you may be surprised at our Country Store located at Guy House. Best of all, admission to Guy House is free. A small admission fee is charged for the other museums, Henry House and Robinson House. The museums have all been lovingly restored over the years.

Henry House, circa 1849, was the home of John Henry an immigrant from Ireland around 1816. Lakeview Park was originally his farm land which was in East Whitby at the time.Thomas Henry was the son of John Henry and Nancy Biggers and became an ordained minister. Henry House remained in the family until 1920 when it was purchased by the McLaughlin brothers who deeded it to the City of Oshawa which later gave Henry House to the Oshawa and District Historical Society to operate as a museum.

Guy House, circa 1835, was the home of Thomas Guy and his wife Margery and their son James Odgers Guy who emmigrated from England. The Guy's moved to Guy's Point,or Bonnie Brae Point. Guy House underwent a massive restoration program in 1984 funded by the City of Oshawa, the Province of Ontario and the Oshawa Historical Society and was opened to the public in 1985 as a component to the Oshawa Archives. Localcarpenters assisted in the renovations.

Robinson House looking towards the harbour at Oshawa by Lake Ontario

Lakeview Park Boardwalk was constructed for the 60th Anniversary of Oshawa and Ontario's Bicentennial and opened on July 1st 1984.

People from the area enjoy Lakeview Park in all seasons, and especially in summer and fall. Hundreds gather for the annual Canada Day Celebrations with fireworks displays each year. Many come, one at a time or as a family, to hang out on the beach, take a ride on a swing, or just on a whim come to sail a kite, enjoy swimming, take a walk or just stretch out on a blanket with a book.

Every day you can see cars lined up along the lakeshore as people just come and take a break by the waters edge, stop for a picnic lunch, or some fries at ‘Tommy’s Homemade Fries’, an historical fixture here! Visitors from the USA are always amazed at the fries, they are a Canadian tradition and not available as street food as regularly as they are in Canada. And don’t forget one of those huge ice cream cones available at the ‘Jube’  just across from Henry House on a hot summer’s day.