Heritage Way

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This site is built with five large teepees and cots for eight in each.    This site offers an opportunity to study Canada’s Plains Indigenous people, learn crafts, games, languages, how to make Bannock, or cook corn in various ways. A seasonal dining shelter is provided.

 The next site along Heritage Way is Georgian Site, our Military Site. Five Garrisons (large wooden shelters) are named for battles where Canadian soldiers lost their lives in World Wars 1 and 2. Tents are placed on these Garrisons for sleeping, and a dining shelter with a military kitchen is on site. An obstacle course will be installed before 2023. The well is located on this site. Lots of information on the battles, the wars, recipes, music and games can be explored here.  

Prospector Site is a site of five cabins, replicating a small Yukon town. Bunks in each cabin, along with a table and chairs, add a homey feel, and each cabin is named. A permanent dining shelter is on site. Children can pan for gold in Matheson Creek, learn about the gold rush and early life in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. This site has a large dining pavilion called Dawson Charlie’s Grill.

Built to make the best use of the sunshine, Adirondack site replicates the shanties of trappers in Canada’s wilderness. These are three-sided huts of rough-hewn lumber with built-in bunks, each named for an animal whose pelt was sought by trappers for trading. The open front facing the sun, has a tarp that can be lowered for sleeping to keep insects and animals at bay. (The trappers would have used tree boughs and branches to close themselves in). 

 The next site is Pioneer Site, which is five covered wagons. There are built-in bunks, with an aluminum door in each, with a Velcro exit door at the opposite end where the driver of the horses would be situated. This site has solar power, which will be restored for the coming year. Many early settler crafts, costumes, recipes and games can be enjoyed here. At this time, there is a seasonal dining shelter. 

The Wendake Site, built in 2006, has three longhouses of British Columbia red cedar. These have bunks and door flaps, and the site has a permanent dining shelter to complement the longhouses. This site replicates the original homes of the Wendat, Ojibway, Iroquois, Mohawk and other indigenous people of the Huronia/Simcoe County area. Visit Simcoe County Museum, St. Marie Among the Hurons,  learn about how disease affected their life, play lacrosse and enjoy their former homeland, right here in our forests.