Government House SK is proud to be part of Historic Places Days. This year’s theme is Makers from Coast to Coast to Coast: Honouring Arts, Crafts and Storytelling . In celebration of #HistoricPlacesDays, join us Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20 from 1 – 4 p.m. and experience what was once domestic chores of the Victorian […]
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Enjoy FREE admission to the Bytown Museum with the purchase of an ice cream!
Fort Macleod Provincial Historic Area
Fort Macleod, Alberta
Visit Fort Macleod’s Provincial Historic Area and experience where the west began.
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Make a square for the Bytown Museum’s paper quilt! Decorate a small cardboard square to show off your favourite thing, the place you call home, or a cool pattern. Then join the museum’s mosaic of squares in our giant paper quilt!
You are invited to celebrate the rich cultures, histories, and traditions of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples at the Bytown Museum Pop-up market featuring local Indigenous vendors and makers Touch tables with traditional sacred medicines and Métis sashes Learn about the 3 Sisters with family-friendly crafts Dance performances by the Lyons Sisters and more!
Health care and nursing, both formal and informal, have a long and colourful past in Bytown (later Ottawa). Individuals and organizations affected and saved countless lives. Wives of canal workers nursed their injured husbands. Early doctors cared for patients, including an ailing Lieutenant-Colonel John By. Nuns risked deadly diseases to assist new immigrants. Trained nurses […]
This guided tour takes visitors through the evolution of Ottawa and the people who call it home while they explore the Commissariat, Ottawa’s oldest stone building. Historical accounts of this region—from the time of its first inhabitants, to its early days as Bytown, to present-day Ottawa—reveal the major changes it has experienced and what has […]
Willowbank
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Preserving built and cultural heritage through teaching theory & craft.
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See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]
See spaces where the household staff lived and worked! The Servants’ Life guided tour allows visitors to see spaces where the household staff lived and worked. Join us as we share with you the history of these spaces through the 55 years that the McLaughlin Family lived at Parkwood. As a National Historic Site, Parkwood […]