Lucan Area Heritage
& Donnelly Museum
171 Main Street, P. O. Box 427,
Lucan, Ontario,
N0M 2J0

Telephone: 519-227-0756
lucanheritage@donnellymuseum.com

Among the first residents of Biddulph Township were free blacks from Cincinnati, Ohio who, after being forced to leave Ohio as a result of the enforcement of the state's "Black Laws", formed the Wilberforce Colony in 1821. As Wilberforce went into a steady decline by the late 1830's, many of the colony members sold their land to Irish settlers. The town was originally called "Marystown" in honour of Canada Company's John McDonald's wife, but was later changed to Lucan.

On January 1, 1999 the Village of Lucan and the Township of Biddulph united to become the Township of Lucan Biddulph. With an area of approximately 16,876 hectares and a population of 4,092 people, you can see that Lucan Biddulph Township has maintained it's small town feeling with lots of room and land to allow comfortable living.

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"Threads of Freedom: Quilts and the Underground Railroad. Fact or Fiction?"

June 13 – October 31, 2009. In 1999, the book "Hidden in Plain View: A secret story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad" was published. It was well received by the public. Historians and quilt scholars were skeptical. Is the quilt code fact or fiction? Come solve the mystery at the Lucan Area Heritage and Donnelly Museum this summer!