The Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year with a new online exhibition featuring postcards from yesteryear called “Scene and Unseen.”

They also plan to open an in-person exhibition as well this year.

“The Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre (LGIC) is thrilled to announce a new exhibition for our Third Floor Gallery: Scene and Unseen: Exploring Stories Through Postcard, according to Curator Nadine Finlay.

The exhibition, first published on their website as a digital exhibition, includes recently acquired artefacts that are being displayed in public for the first time, Finlay said.

“Explore the history of the Lakeshore Grounds through postcards sent and collected in the region around the turn of the twentieth century,” she said.

Postcards can simultaneously ‘capture memories of a place while obscuring the lived realities of those whose stories are deeply connected with the image.’

“What stories do historical images reveal, and what others do they conceal? ‘ asks the LGIC. “This is the question that Scene and Unseen will invite us to consider.”

As one of the earliest accessible ways to send short-form messages worldwide, postcards were once an efficient means of communication, the LGIC said.

“However, upon deeper analysis, there is more to these images of the Lakeshore Grounds and South Etobicoke than you might think!” Finlay said.

You can visit the collection online at lakeshoregrounds.ca/Scene-and-Unseen and later this year in-person in the Third Floor Gallery, located along the hallway of the third floor of the Student Welcome and Resource Centre at Humber College, Lakeshore.

The exhibition is free.

For more information contact Curator Nadine Finlay at 416-675-6622 ext. 5381.