Response By
Thomas Peace
Covent Garden Market’s Mounted Longhorn Steer Horns, late 1800s
longhorn steer horns, wood Gift of the Estate of Mary Alice Jury, 1994
These horns likely hung in London, Ontario’s original Covent Garden Market building, which was first constructed in 1845. They came to the Museum though the well-known London archaeologists and historians Dr. Elsie Jury (1910-1993) and Dr. Wilfrid Jury (1890-1981).
Response
Without a bull horn, how to steer history?
Another century in the Downtown market
One of many in a Juried collection
But…
Why here and not the Archaeology museum?
Why here and not the Wendat Sainte-Marie?
Why here and not the Moravian mission at Fairfield?
Why here and not the Pioneer village?
Why here and not the University library?
Why here, in Our museum?
Places Elsie built, choices she made
When Wilfrid is spoken aloud
Remember Mary Alice McLeod Murray
Thomas Peace is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Huron University College. His research centers on literacy and education, the social and cultural dynamics of community, the history of Indigenous peoples and settler colonialism in the northeast and lower Great Lakes, and connections between geography, environment and community.