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FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY UPGRADE KINDLY OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES: TODAY’S ADMISSION TO A • Service animals welcome • Pets must be leashed and may not SEASON PASS enter buildings STARTING AT • Picking flowers, crops or fruit is prohibited • Do not climb walls, trees or fences

• Exercise caution and do not feed animals $24.00 • Leave strollers and wagons outside Based on 2019 adult admission prices before tax. Upgrade can only be done on the furnished homes day admission was purchased with original receipt. Conditions apply. Ask for details at the Ticket Office. Unlimited admittance to Upper Village, Fort Henry day • This site is SMOKE FREE program, Battle of Crysler’s Farm Visitor Centre, Parks day-use and beach areas. Unlimited rides on Village’s miniature train. 50% off admission to Upper Canada Village or Fort Henry day program for up to two accompanying • Eating / drinking is prohibited inside buildings guests each visit. 15% discount off regularly priced retail merchandise at the Village and Garrison Stores. Premium Pass also available.

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DISCOVERY CENTRE TINSMITH FAMILY ACTIVITY CENTRE (Open in July and August) Interactive exhibits tell the story of life The tinsmith makes tinware for along the St. Lawrence River and household and farm use. His bright, Visitors can try their hand at 1860s explain the national significance of the light and inexpensive products were pastimes, popular board games Battle of Crysler’s Farm fought during popular replacements for pewter, and crafts, dress-up, and outdoor the . wood and earthenware. recreational activities.

WOOLLEN FACTORY ROBERTSON HOME CHEESE FACTORY The Woollen Factory uses impressive The Robertson Home showcases By the 1860s, an increase in milk 1860s machinery to transform raw wool a prosperous middle-class family production led to the emergence of into yarn and cloth blankets. The factory whose Loyalist roots are evident in privately owned and co-operative cheese provided custom services to spinners and the furnishings and early 19th century factories. Canadian cheddar was made weavers, and represents the emergence of architectural style of the house. and exported to Britain. the new mechanised factory system. CRYSLER STORE SCHOOLHOUSE FLOUR MILL Stores like this one offered a wide variety The Common School was open to all who Using either water power or steam, of goods and services to the community, wanted to learn, though attendance was this largely automated mill grinds flour including postal services. Storekeepers not compulsory. Students were drilled in using large millstones. Flour was bought from wholesalers in Montreal, and manners and morals as well as reading, shipped in wooden barrels made in a sometimes accepted locally produced writing, and arithmetic. nearby cooperage. items in lieu of cash. PRINTING OFFICE COOPERAGE BAKERY Typesetters, printers, and proofreaders The cooper makes barrels, casks, and Using flour from the mill, the bakers mix produced a weekly newspaper with local other containers by fitting together a large batch of dough then weigh and stories, ads, a literary column, agricultural wooden staves. This cooper’s primary pan individual loaves which are baked advice, and international news. Other occupation would be making barrels in the wood-fired oven. Bakeries relied printing jobs such as producing posters for the mill next door for storing and on travellers and migrant workers to helped sustain the business. shipping flour. prosper, as most families made their own bread at home. HARVEST BARN SAWMILL This modern cafeteria-style restaurant Using a water-powered muley saw, the WILLARD’S HOTEL serves hot and cold food and beverages mill cuts lumber for local customers. This restaurant offers visitors to Upper for visitors. Sawmills were common and indispensable Canada Village the opportunity to to a society largely dependent on wood purchase meals typical of the 1860s MCDIARMID HOME for shelter. served by staff in period costume. Here the weaver spins yarn and works BROOMMAKER CRYSLER HALL at the loom to produce cloth and other textiles. These products were an important The broommaker uses imported broom Once the home of prosperous landowner source of income for many families. corn (Sorghum vulgare) to make locally John Crysler, this building currently sold products. Corn brooms were popular houses exhibits from the Upper Canada ROSS FARM and considered superior to those made Village collection. from twigs, splints, or corn husks. A horse-powered drag saw cuts firewood PHYSICIAN’S HOME & BARN in the yard while household duties, including quilting, are completed indoors. COOK’S TAVERN The doctor employed the latest Cords of wood were sold to the Grand The tavern-keeper offered advancements in science and medicine to Trunk Railway, passing steamboats, local accommodation, food and drink. treat his patients. Many people continued residents, and nearby mills. Horses and carriages were available to rely on less scientific remedies, for rent from the livery. The large room midwives and homeopaths. CABINETMAKER upstairs was used for local meetings and evening entertainment. DRESSMAKER The cabinetmaker produces custom-made furniture and other items for customers. The dressmaker outfitted ladies in the latest Hard-pressed by large mechanised TOW SCOW DOCK fashions from London, New York or Paris. furniture and chair factories, he also did Visitors can ride in this horse-drawn boat repairs and assembled mass-produced from one dock to the other. In the 1860s, KETTLE KORNER parts to stay in business. tow scows were used primarily to transport Visitors can buy drinks and snacks at bulk cargo on the river and through the this small concession stand. PROVIDENCE CHAPEL St. Lawrence and Rideau canals. A meeting place for the Episcopal LOUCKS FARM CHRIST CHURCH Methodists, this chapel was used for The Loucks family farm practised ‘mixed’ Sunday school lessons, charity concerts, This stately, white church housed the agriculture and demonstrates the impact and temperance meetings. Methodists dignified, formal liturgy and music of of improved breeds, horse-power, and were the most numerous Protestant the local Anglican congregation, one of early mechanisation on well-established denomination during the 1860s. the main Protestant denominations in progressive farms of this period. Meals are Upper Canada. prepared on the wood stove in the winter BLACKSMITH or summer kitchens. PASTOR’S HOME The blacksmith shoes horses, repairs wagons, and fixes machinery for his Local Lutherans built this comfortable TENANT FARM neighbours and local businesses. home for their pastor whose religious and Tenant farmers leased their house and A good blacksmith was essential to a moral teachings were important for many land, and relied on oxen and simple hand thriving community. German Protestants in this area. implements to farm. The openhearth is used to cook and provide warmth. FIRE ENGINE HOUSE MASONIC HALL This building shelters the Queen, the Communities in the 1860s often had SIGNAL TOWER Village’s hand-pumped fire engine. Due one or more fraternal societies, such as Before Morse code and the telegraph, to the damage fire could cause to their the Freemasons. They were dedicated towers like this one were used during the businesses, mill owners often played to charitable work and the promotion of War of 1812 to transmit naval military a central role in obtaining fire-fighting public and private morality. codes along the frontier using a system of equipment for their communities. balls and pennants. Visitors can climb to SHOEMAKER the top for a beautiful panoramic view. Using hand tools and wooden forms called ‘lasts’, the shoemaker makes and repairs a variety of leather boots and shoes. UpperCanadaVillage.com

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