2019 IN REVIEW
 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”
Luke 19:40 (NKJV)
The rocks do cry out the praises of God and so do we, as another action packed and also challenging year is past us. Here are some of the highlights of 2019 and a plug for the upcoming open house in 2020. Blessings from Marc and Martin. 
Open house 2020!
It's open house time again at the “Creation Research Museum of Ontario” in Goodwood Ontario on
Saturday May the 9th, 2020 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Click here for more details.​
Museum News
Indiana Joe (Joseph Hubbard) Coming to Ontario! April 1st to The 8th, 2020.
Stay Tuned For Details on The Home Page !
Joseph Hubbard (AKA Indiana Joe) has been working with Creation Research UK since 2014, and founded the Genesis Museum of Creation Research in 2013, which was to become Creation Research UK’s first UK museum. He has completed his degree in Palaeobiology, is a qualified Zoo Keeper, and has extensive experience in archaeology, geology, and biology. Joseph has been a Christian for 17 years, and unashamedly preaches Christ in his many talks and presentations he gives. Joseph serves as the main representative for Creation Research UK, organizing itineraries, and ministry trips. He also is an active speaker and writer for Creation Research, and leads field trips around the UK. He serves as the director of the Genesis Museum of Creation Research, and an active member in the Creation Research UK Museums Project. 
Public Fossil Finding Field Trip
With Joe Hubbard (Indiana Joe), Curator of The Genesis Museum of Creation Research (UK)
​and Martin Legemaate, Curator of The Creation Research Museum of Ontario,
Saturday April 4th, 2020. Details on The Home Page.
​Contact Martin Legemaate: creationresearchontario@hotmail.com
2019 in Review
May 3rd and 4th OCHEC Homeschooling Conference in Ancaster Ontario
For the past few years we have been promoting the museum by attending homeschooling conferences around Southern Ontario. We had some good feedback at our booth this year at the exhibitors hall at OCHEC (Ontario Christian Home Educators Connection). We had some of Vance Nelson's books on hand and as always the free minerals and fossils were a big hit!
May Museum Tour With The Uxbridge Homechooling Group
Touring the museum with a quiz sheet in hand after an informative introduction to fossils upstairs. 
At the end a winning quiz sheet was drawn from the bucket and one of the kids went home with a cool local fossil. Of course no one came home empty handed and also left with some fossilized wood!​
Learning to identify fossils at the activity tables
Thanks so much again for having our homeschool group. It was awesome and enjoyed by everyone!!! Amanda
June Quarry Dig at St. Marys Quarry in Bowmanville Ont.
A big crowd of Ontario rock and fossil club members and sunny dry weather at the semi-annual St. Marys quarry dig in Bowmanville Ontario. Fossil collectors gathering in the parking lot just before the safety talk.
​In the middle levels (The Lindsay Formation) David makes a great find!
Close up of some of the Ceraurus trilobites. This slab was carried down from the blast pile by 4 people and it will be  properly prepped over the next few months by Malcolm.
After the grid pattern is cut he chisels away the excess rock in cubes.
Tony found a rare Cephalopod. ("Trocholites ammonius")
​This is a huge 6 level quarry that can take several minutes to drive from one end to the other.
A slab just filled with Ceraurus trilobites. Fossil graveyards are quite common and indicate fast moving water and sediment sorting creatures out and trapping them to their demise. Noah's flood is the best explanation for the fossil graveyards found all around the world.
Malcolm cutting the back half of the slab in a grid pattern in order lighten the load.
More collectors get in on the excitement.
​Now up to the top level where the Whitby Oil Shale is exposed.
Even rarer is that it is uncompressed or "3D"! Any
3D fossil indicates a quick burial and fast fossilization!
Tony also found a positive and negative impression of the trilobite Pseudogygites latimarginatus. Good work Tony! Tony has been providing great specimens for the museum.
Just a little souvenir to take home found by a collector. An amazing orthocone cephalopod! 
June Visit to Lions Head on The Bruce Peninsula 
This place is well know for the presence of naturally formed pot holes!
A pot hole is formed when a round stone (a pot boiler) swirls around on bed rock by turbulent water movement and eventually cuts a hole, even through several meters of rock! Naturally formed potholes are found throughout Southern Ontario. It's nice to see on the sign a time line of thousands, not millions of years ago. The sign is correct, to form potholes requires tremendous pressure and water flow! Catastrophic forces we would expect to find during the Ice Age and Noah's Flood!
A sharply carved pot hole
Trees have sprung up out of this one!
Video of a large walk-in pothole
Video of several potholes on Lion's Head
To learn more about potholes visit  the 7 Ontario Geological Wonders page.
July Kawartha Lakes Summer Fossil Trip
Great weather and great finds on our Summer fossil trip. This is the first time I had a seasoned collectors attend to help out the group with fossil identification. ​
Kevin checking out one of the kids finds
The first good find of the day!
Now we're getting somewhere! 
More trilobite bits. Everybody is going to come home with some cool specimens.
A nice cluster of sea shrimp or ostracods. Ostrocods are great examples of living fossils because they are still here. Creatures produce according to their kind just as Genesis states.
Now on to the second site. 
Malcolm showing kids the local fossils. This quarry cuts into the Gull River Formation.
The good fossils take time to be discovered as the eye must be trained to recognize them. 
A partial Bathyurus trilobite!
Another nice trilobite bit!
A rare type of orthocone shell was uncovered.
Trilobites are arthropods categorized in with lobsters and crabs but with one difference, they are extinct. Extinction doesn't help the theory of evolution at all. If evolution were true we should be continually gaining species!
Finishing up site one folks could purchase some fossils to take their fossil collection to a new level. Thanks Kevin for organizing that! 
A road  exposure cutting into the Verulam Formation. Different fossils are found here such as crinoids trace fossils and trackways.
​Everyone left with more that enough fossils and are even more equipped to argue for creation and against evolution. Join us on the next trip! 
Contact Curator Martin Legemaate at creationresearchontario@hotmail.com
Here's one review.....
​"We had an amazing experience. I keep thinking of Luke 19:37-40.
Thanks for teaching us how the rocks speak!"
Sylvia
September Collection and Research
Marc and I go as often as we can to Whitby Shale exposures in Central Ontario to collect slabs for our museum fossil hunts. This time it was up to the Collingwood area where we were met by high water. 
Down to another site South of Collingwood. This too was over run with water.
Unfortunately this area is getting built up and harder and harder to get permission to collect. Note the new houses in the background. We did manage to still find some beach front where construction was taking place to be able to collect several buckets of shale slabs.
A good collection of gastropods (snails) were saved before the water and ice would destroy them come Spring time.
One of the pieces after preparation with and air scribe.
October Museum Tour With The Kawartha Homeschooling Group
We had a good tour with the Kawartha Homeschooling group although because of the drizzle the fossil hunt was forced indoors, nevertheless some fantastic fossils were found showing evidence for creation and catastrophe!
Now over to the fossil hut tables where kids can split open oil shale slabs.
A large trilobite pygidium found (tail section of the trilobite)
Other fossils were found too like this amazing lingula shell. Lingula still live today in Australian waters. Their living position is vertical. This one was found horizontal indicating it was washed in by a current of water.
Touring the museum consisting of over 500 fossils, rocks and minerals!
Marc identifying some of the fossils found.
A strong odor of petroleum emerges as folks split open the shale indicating these trilobites were buried quickly!
More trilobite tails. Over all there were plenty of fossils to go around, and yes everyone was able to take their fossils home!
Completed Research on the Queenston Shale Formation (October)
For full story visit  7 Ontario Geological Wonders Number 2! 
November Collection and Research
Back at it again in Collingwood to do more collecting. Marc at a road cut just South of Collingwood yielding a few good fossils.
This road cut exposes the Lindsay Formation with exposures throughout Central Ontario and beyond! These beds were not laid down by a local flood!
A fossil gastropod with a modern gastropod shell placed next to it. Can you see the difference? There is none! Snails produced after their own kind just as Genesis says they do!
A partial cephalopod (orthocone) shell 9 inches across. Complete this would have been a monster.
Recent Projects!
Restorations
Photo: Sandy Barrett helping to dismantle a 1927 clear vision gas pump for restoration. Click here for full report.
Mobile display cases
Thanks to Central Baptist Academy in Brantford Ontario for hosting a display for 7 years! Now it's time for an upgrade.
Donned with the new museum colours it's now moved up to Pioneer Baptist Church in Norland Ontario. For full report click the display button.
Fossil Upgrades
Thanks to Tony for the fossil upgrades this year. I've been wanting to get one of these amazing fossils into the museum for years. 
The formations board is almost full with the latest Dundee Formation addition. Thanks again to Tony. The formations board is a collection of sample rocks and fossils from the sedimentary layers of rock (or formations) beneath our feet going from the Precambrian right up to the Devonian. Some might say "how can you collect samples way down deep in the layers? See the demonstration below.
These magazines represent layers of sedimentary rocks laid down one on top of another making it impossible to collect in the layers below if we were living on the surface.
However the sedimentary rocks in Southern Ontario slope downward to the West at about 7 degrees. Erosion allowed each layer to be exposed in different areas thus allowing us to collect in every layer!