Join one of the owners of the historic Alton Mill Arts Centre as they take your through time, around the property, and share behind-the-scenes details from the restoration process of the Beaver Knitting Mill. Now a beautiful Arts Centre complex with modern amenities, the Alton Mill was derelict and abandoned until the late 1990s. 

Join us at the Billy Bishop Home & Museum for Historic Places Day! We’ll have our photobooth outside with costumes and props, kid’s crafts, as well as tours every hour on the hour!

Help return more bison to Banff! This is a family paint event to celebrate Canada Day and the bison of Banff! Receive 1 bison cut-out for each family member to decorate and hang on our fence to join the Beaver Street herd. After your paint session, try the Eye Spy game in the home with […]

Join one of our interpreters for a tour of the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada and enjoy a panoramic view of the surrounding land and sea during the 132 step adventure to the top. Point Amour Lighthouse is a lot more than a great view… it’s a snapshot of life on the Straits, set in […]

300 years ago, this site was a Beothuk village. Tour the interpretation centre where exhibits and artifacts foster an appreciation for this unique, and now vanished culture. Free admission for Historic Places Day.

This Historic Places Day join one of our interpreters for a personalized tour of the lighthouse including a chance to climb up the stone tower to see the light apparatus used in the 1800s. Also explore our oceans with our annual Under the Sea event. Free admission!

The Mockbeggar Plantation was the former residence of politician and Confederation advocate F. Gordon Bradley. Today, this site tells the story of life in Newfoundland in the 1930s and 1940s, when the issue of whether to join Canada or remain an independent nation was on everyone’s lips. Explore the house with one of our interpreters […]