We went to Hamilton Ontario expecting to find McMaster University and maybe a steel mill or two. We definitely did not expect to find a castle. But there it was, a real castle, Dundurn Castle, built for Sir Allan McNab in the 1830’s. In the castle there is a schoolroom, the place where the McNab children were educated. And lucky for us that they were educated, because young Sophia McNab kept a diary.
Sophia’s diary recorded information about daily life at the castle. Today that diary is perhaps the most influential document used by the guides who recreate the castle’s history for the tourists. They know which rooms were used for what purpose.
Doesn’t it make you just want to keep a diary, something to ensure that the record is accurate, a reference book for the tour guides in the unlikely event that your house is still standing 180 years from now?
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