2013/09/21: Black Creek Pioneer Village

I spent yesterday’s course reading break together with Sara, Laura, Salome and Franziska in the Black Creek Pioneer Village. Initially, we planned to meet there for a lunch/coffee break at the Pioneer Harvest Festival. We didn’t know that we have to pay an entrance fee of more than 16$ to visit the festival, because it is located inside the Black Creek Pioneer Village. After some discussions Laura asked the perfect persons the right question, because we got then some volunteer worker’s buttons which allowed us to enter the village for free. The Pioneer Village is a collection of 40 historical buildings from across south central Ontario, relocated around the former farming houses of the Stong Family - only a 20 minutes walk from our campus!
We arrived one and a half hour before the museum closed, but we still enjoyed the old buildings, the presentations of lifestyles and customs, the apple cider, sending a telegraph message, corn for free and ice cream. The only thing we didn’t enjoy was the weather.