Delta Morning

by Phil Chadwick

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$2,700

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22.000 x 26.000 x 1.000 inches

Title

Delta Morning

Artist

Phil Chadwick

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

Description

The paint is on the canvas - very thick - several millimetres in places. The painting stayed on the easel through the hottest part of July when the heat and the bugs pushed me into the studio.
The Old Stone Mill at Delta was built in 1810 by William Jones and is one of the earliest surviving, fully automatic, grist mills of Upper Canada. In 1817 the mill was described as�"unquestionably the best building of the kind in Upper Canada".
In 1963 the last owner of the Mill, Hastings Steele, deeded the Old Stone Mill to a group of four people in trust, for the sum of one dollar. Mr. Steele's prime concern was that the Mill should be preserved and would in time become a museum of milling technology. These four people founded the The Delta Mill Society later the same year and in 1972 the Society was incorporated as a Non-profit Corporation in the Province of Ontario. It was the dawn of a new era creating tourism jobs that entertain and educate. The black smith fires and forge were running again beside the Delta Mill.
In 1973, the Old Stone Mill was designated a National Historic Site because of its early use of the automatic milling system and its unique Georgian architecture. It is the only stone gristmill in Canada to receive the status of National Historic Site. With this new title, the Delta Mill Society worked with the Ontario Ministry of Culture and other provincial and federal agencies to fund a building stabilization project in 1973-4. This project included general masonry repair, re-roofing with new cedar shakes, jacking of floors to level, replacement of windows, sash and glazing, and structural framing stabilization. The work done in 1974 was not extensive, but did secure the building sufficiently for the Delta Mill Society to open the building as a museum.�

In 1999 the Delta Mill Society undertook its most ambitious project. In conjunction with the Parks Canada National Cost-Sharing Program, a Trillium Grant and a great deal of community support, the Delta Mill Society pooled their resources to fund a one million dollar extensive restoration project. This project included further masonry repairs and the restoration of the flooring and its supports. The restoration was completed in 2004.

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August 18th, 2015

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