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Children playing instruments at the Homestead.
1960
5116 Sir Frederick Banting Road, New Tecumseth, Ontario

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Fun and games for children on the Homestead. This photograph shows Robert Thompson and Larry Banting, the grandsons of Thompson and Lena Banting. The instruments belonged to Thompson.

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Game of Fort.
1930
Museum on the Boyne, Alliston, Ontario

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Game of Fort, previously owned by Edward Banting, the son of Thompson and Lena Banting.
Marie (Banting) Shields (Edward's sister) remembers games at the Homestead:

"We played, well, all the going games: Parcheesi, Snakes & Ladders, all that -- board games. ... And they had a deck of cards that was called "The Bad Boy," and I've never seen it or heard of it since… I have no idea, I can't remember really how we played it but they had a special sort of cards. See, my parents, my grandparents were very much against all kinds of things. They didn't agree with going to dances, they didn't drink, they didn't smoke, they just went to church."

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Scrapbook Page
1920
5116 Sir Frederick Banting Road, New Tecumseth, Ontario

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Excerpt from an interview between Robert Douglas Banting, a grandson of Nelson and Margaret Banting, and Marie (Banting) Shields.

Bob: Did you have any pet animals?

Marie: Dogs and cats. But that was another thing; they never were in the house.

B: There wasn't a dog or a cat in the house.

M: No. Animals were animals, and people were people. The cats, they lived in the barn, and he had his own dish down there. Dad gave him his own dish at the barn, and the dog stayed up 'round the house. And I remember trying to coax the dog into the house. He was pretty nervous. I got him just inside the door but he took off on me. Dogs weren't allowed in the house.

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Bomb, owned by Edward Banting.
1918
Museum on the Boyne, Alliston, Ontario

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World War I Bomb, donated to the Museum by Edward Banting.

Robert Thompson Banting, Thompson's grandson, remembers that:

"Every so often, after some persuading, Grandpa would bring us up into the attic - where all the treasures of the world lie. It was there that I was mesmerized with his stamp collection, of which I have a part today."

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Writing Desk.
1920
Museum on the Boyne, Alliston, Ontario

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Robert Thompson Banting, Thompson's grandson and Edward's nephew, remembers the house:

"There were antiques of all kinds and ages that could hold a young man's interest till death do they part. Our bedrooms were upstairs, and if we visited in the winters, we would congregate in the central hallway where the only heat vent existed and listen in on the adult conversations."

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Writing Desk.
1920
Museum on the Boyne, Alliston, Ontario

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This writing desk is rumoured to have been used by Sir Frederick Banting.

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Table and chair.
1920
Museum on the Boyne, Alliston, Ontario

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Table and chair, donated to the Museum on the Boyne by Thompson and Lena (Knight) Banting.

Frederick Hipwell, a cousin and close family friend, reflects on Fred Banting:

"He valued family possessions - a salt container of his grandmother's, an heirloom rocking-chair - which had for him a sentimental attraction."