Your Walking Tour

Ironwood Tea House
The Ironwood is a lovely nostalgic building and serves as Westfield's restaurant during special events and as a lunch facility during school programmes. It is available to rent for weddings, social occasions and business functions, it accommodates 120 people and is air conditioned.
Washrooms are available; use side door. Handicap accessible.

Blacksmith Shop
This building was constructed in 1853. Blacksmiths often set up shop near an inn because wagons and coaches frequently needed repairing whilst traveling on rough roads. In the early years Smiths shod the cloven hooves of oxen which had to be supported in a harness, as oxen could not stand on three feet (horses can). As settlement increased, shoeing horses became the mainstay trade of the Blacksmith. He also made nails used in buildings with dressed lumber, fireplace equipment, agricultural and household equipment. Generally the Blacksmith was the first trade to establish permanent location near the inn or in the heart of the community.

Blacksmith House

Built in 1828, this tradesman's home reflects the lifestyle of a German working class family during the Victorian era in rural Ontario.

Bake Oven
This is a replica of a "beehive" style bake oven which was typical in Quebec. They were often located beside inn's, taverns and farms. To prepare the oven for baking, a fire lit in the cavity warmed up the stones and bricks for two to three hours. The ashes and remaining coals were scraped out and the bread was placed in the oven with a paddle-like board called a peel. The oven could bake 25 loaves of bread at one time.

Edmundson House
This timber-framed house was built in 1827 by William Edmundson.

Westfield Buildings continued ... Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4,

Westfield Heritage Village and its Historical Buildings