Building Community Through Sweat Equity | Digital Museums Canada

Building Community Through Sweat Equity

24 November 2021

This new exhibit by the Grimsby Museum explores the homebuilding co-op experience in a small Ontario town. Featuring firsthand accounts and archival footage, Sweat Equity – The Grimsby Homebuilding Co-operative 1953–1956 looks at the movement’s origins in Nova Scotia and its later spread to other Canadian towns and cities, while also celebrating a community that ultimately built more than houses.

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