
How it’s Made
Explore how historic and cultural foods are made with your own hands! These 11 sites offer visitors the chance to see how foods are made and prepared, from growing ingredients, milking cows, foraging for ingredients, and hunting techniques.
Places
L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
The only known viking settlement in North America gives visitors the chance to live like a viking. Explore how soup was make from grown ad foraged vegetables, visit the sod houses, and see how flatbread was baked.
Roma at Three Rivers National Historic Site
Montague, Prince Edward Island
Once a 1730s trading post, visitors to Roma at Three Rivers can learn how to bake bread in an outdoor oven.
Upper Canada Village
Morrisburg, Ontario
Be transported back into the 1860s and explore all aspects of food preparation, including farming and gardening, milking a cow, churning butter, baking, and cooking.
Heritage Park Historical Village
Calgary, Alberta
Learn about the Canadian West in an 1860s Fur Trading Fort and First Nations Encampment, an 1880s pre-railway settlement, and a 1910s Prairie Railway town. Plus, learn to churn butter, and visit farms and homes with cooking activities.
Dundurn Castle National Historic Site
Hamilton, Ontario
Learn about daily life in the 1850s in this historic neoclassical mansion. Plus, explore cooking and gardening programs to learn how food was prepared for the McNab family.
Old Stone Mill National Historic Site
Delta, Ontario
Built in 1810, this is one of the earliest surviving grist mills of Upper Canada. In summer months, heritage wheat is ground into flour using these 200 year old millstones.
Muséoparc Vanier
Ottawa, Ontario
This francophone museum features a fully-functional urban sugar shack where visitors can learn about maple syrup production.
The Chocolate Museum
Saint Stephen, New Brunswick
Hand-dippers at the Chocolate Museum still craft chocolate the same way they have for 100 years.
Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump
Fort MacLeod, Alberta
This UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site preserves and interprets over 6,000 years of Plains Buffalo culture. This site tells the story of an ancient hunting technique used by Plains People for thousands of years, producing more food in a single moment than any other form of communal hunting anywhere else in the world.
Road Map
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador to Fort MacLeod, Alberta
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