Heritage Pavillion
If history and heritage are your thing, step back in time with our interactive museum quality displays and collections. Experience history first hand with our many historical re-enactors.
Black Bart
Let your mind skip back in time about a Hundred years, to a mining town. You stand in the middle of the street, knowing you will soon be in the promised, land. On the count of three, you’re dead. Shot by Black Bart, the meanest, toughest, fastest gun slinger in the Old West. Legend has it that Black Bart was shot in the back, by a lily livered, yellow backed, coward. In his last breath Black Bart vowed revenge to that one man that took his life. Since then the ghost of Black Bart has shot anyone who has stood in his path.
Relive the Old West with thrilling audience participation. Could you be the one fast enough on the draw to end Black Bart’s legend of terror? Mr. Tom Destry will give you the chance to see if you’ve got what it takes. Step right up and strap on your shootin iron. Listen for the count of three. In this moment you will either end the legend of Black Bart or become just another notch in his gun barrel. No man has ever beaten Black Bart. All that have tried are haunted by the sound of his gun and his bone chilling laugh as he claims their soul. So come folks, step right up. Show him what you got. If you dare…..
Black Bart will be performing on Sunday the 24th, only.
Le Voyageur Errant
Le Voyageur Errant is Jay Bailey, an actual voyageur who worked with First Nations in Manitoba and then taught French for thirty years before putting his French and Native interests together to become a voyageur. He has traveled more than 4000 km by canoe
Bringing Canadian history and culture alive! Jay Bailey engages with voyageur life. Learn about his expeditions and an descriptions of the life of a voyageur, see fur trade canoes, see how heavy voyageur loads were on a portage and test your strength and agility in voyageur games.
LT. Allen McKnight
LT. Allen McKnight of the 49th New York Medical Unit will be presenting some period medical instruments that were used in Battle Field Amputations. As well as some old medicine bottles representing the types of medicine used during the Civil War. Come and discover why 50,000 Canadians served in the Civil War.
