May - June, 2017 Issue 4

Introduction From The Fort activity booklet we give to elcome to our 2017 school age visitors. season at Fort ➢ Construction on the W Malden National maintenance compound ➢ Parka Photo Missions App is Historical Site. This year will be a upgrade has started. The being developed by the National Office. This will be an very exciting year for us as we construction site is fenced off and no one is allow inside app a visitor can use to do celebrate without proper personal interactive activities during ’s 150th protective equipment and their visit at Fort Malden with year of permission from the contractor. small children age 2 – 6. confederation. As Estimated completion is you know Park’s sometime in July. ➢ Canada150 Site Preparedness – Canada has free we are busy preparing for an admission to all exciting season! We are national parks, national historic anticipating an increase in sites, and national marine visitation this year due to free conservation areas throughout admission. We appreciate your Canada. This includes our favorite likes and shares on Facebook! site here at Fort Malden, and we welcome you to join us for the New in the Garden celebrations!

➢ Fort Malden was awarded a Best of Windsor Essex award for “Best Local Attraction - Historical” on March 29, 2017 by TWEPI.

➢ In March, a Production We are always looking for new Company from filmed an episode of “Knock Knock ur victualler (Mark members or volunteers that have Ghost”. A comical ghost Feltoe, (volunteer interest in the historical past of Fort hunting TV series Episode will O gardener) has a new idea Malden and who want to help out at air in the fall on OUTtv. for the garden season in 2017. Since events during the year. The Friends 2014 we have been growing hops in of Fort Malden will be having our ➢ New Site Walking Tour the garden, and last year Jack’s Annual General Meeting on June Brochure has been printed. Gastropub in Kingsville, took our 14, 2017, if you would like to join hops and brewed a batch of beer for please contact Peter Wright this year. We are searching for a ➢ Explorer activity booklet is name. Mark has great idea for this (President) being updated. This is the year expanding a new garden by [email protected]. 1

adding a row of hops from the noted that many of the crimes crimes, such as a murder, desertion original plant. As well, you will considered to be a flogging offence during a time of war, treason, and find in the Pensioner Cottage in the army, would have warranted mutiny. Again, compared to the garden two type of heirloom hanging in civilian life (this is the 200+ capitol offences in civilian tobacco, which are Rot Front and time of the “Bloody Code” with life. Cherry Red Tobacco. over 200 capitol offences). Hands on History

ave you ever wondered what it would be like to H fire a Brown Bess musket or touch-off a six-pounder cannon or a Coehorn mortar? Time-travel to 1812 and join the ranks on the Parade Square at Fort Malden. If When a soldier had been sentenced you’re 16 years or older, enlist for a to a flogging by a court martial, the short hitch in the Fort Malden In the near future we will continue entire garrison was required to turn artillery (an hour will do it!) and to add new herbs, heirloom out and watch. Sentences could learn to fire a musket, cannon or vegetables and colourful flowers rage anywhere from 50 – 1000 mortar – or all three! that were grown in the 1850’s and lashes. However, the idea was not we are always on the lookout for to kill the offender, but instead to volunteers to help out with weeding punish and set an example for and cultivating. others. There was a surgeon present during punishment, to assess the Fort Facts and Finds medical fitness of the victim. A drummer usually gave the strokes, logging was a with the drum major standing common form of behind him to make sure he was F punishment in the using all of his force. Should the British Army. Though by today’s victim pass out, the doctor often Safety comes first, so you’ll begin standards it may seem to be an stepped in, at which time the victim with instructions from a uniformed extremely harsh punishment, was hospitalized until he was th guide on operating and loading the during the 19 century, it was a sufficiently recovered to continue weapons properly. Then it’ll be widely accepted practice in British with the punishment (called time to put on your own uniform, armed forces, one that was often punishment by instalments). take your stand and fire away! supported by soldiers themselves.

Flogging was not the only punishment used by the army. Fines Available Wednesday through were quite common, often used in Should someone not follow the conjunction with other punishment Sunday, $22 for a musket firing; rules laid down by the army, many such a flogging, repetitive manual $49 for a mortar firing; $73.60 for a soldiers believed that the offenders labour, and confinement to the six-pounder cannon firing or should be flogged, an opinion often barracks. Capital punishment was $122.60 for all three. shared by officers. It should also be used only for the most serious 2

Solider Stew Days can either register for our 1.5 hour programme, or fully immerse your ungry? Fort Malden’s child in a full day adventure at Fort Malden. cooking up a piping hot H soldier’s lunch, straight $24.50 per child per day. from the 19th century in the Registration is required. Soldier’s Cookhouse. After a bracing stroll around the grounds of Fort Malden, during which your guide will fill you in on all the Fort Malden Murder Mystery history, pull up a chair in the Cookhouse and enjoy a delectable July 22nd, 2017 bowl of stick-to-your-ribs soldier’s stew and a hearty chunk of local hannel your inner bread to go with it. detective as you help uncover a murder in a $24.50 per person. Reservations C classic “who done it” with an and pre-payment required. historical twist!

150th Canada Day July 1st, 2017

elebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary of C Confederation at Fort Malden National Historic Site. Enjoy the activities of the day and a fireworks finale along the Bolster your morale with a sweet bit River! This tradition event is the of dessert and wash it all down with best in the region and not to be a draught of iced tea. Pick up your missed! Free Admission all day. Solider Stew ticket, from May to September, at the Visitor Centre or Explore the Fort to uncover clues Museum for $4.90 and interview suspects with hopes of finding the guilty party. Prizes to Upcoming Events be awarded for some and fun to be had by all! Escape Room Start from 5:30 pm to 8 pm. rd th th $12.10 per person. June 3 , 10 17 , 24th, 2017

Summer Day Camp re you cunning Raider, Redcoats and Rebels enough to escape July 3rd - 7th, 2017 August 5th - 6th, 2017 the Fort’s Barracks? August 14th - 18th, 2017 A

Participate in Fort Malden’s new oin escape room event and discover if nlist the troops in Fort and Fort Malden in you can decipher the riddles to Malden’s Day Camp. A J commemorating the break out of the soldier’s quarters! E different workshop is 180th anniversary of the Rebellions offered each day of the week. You 3

of 1837. Essex County was once Fort Hours again the scene of battles over twenty years after the . Spring Hours Come and see historical re-enactors May 20th – June 30th transform Fort Malden and the Town of into a village ➢ Open Wednesday to Sunday, on the cusp of rebellion! 10 am – 5 pm. ➢ Last Musket Demonstration at 4:15 pm. Website/Facebook

Summer Hours July 1st – September 3rd lease feel free to ➢ Open Daily, 10 am – 5 pm. check out Fort ➢ Last Musket Demonstration at P Malden website, as 4:15 pm. well both Facebook pages. Friends of Fort Malden or the Parks Canada Fort Fees Fort Malden National Historic Site, for any upcoming events or photos In conjunction with the Town of Amherstburg event: Canuck it Up! we post. Festival of Canadiana. Please see arks Canada is inviting town websites for details. Canadians and visitor Fort Malden National Historic P from around the world to Site. Special Events Admission $1.90 celebrate Canada’s 150th per person. Website anniversary at our national http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn- treasures from nhs/on/malden/visit.aspx Art by the River coast to coast to Facebook coast. August 26th - 27th, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/FortMalde nNHS To mark this rt by the river, with is special year, we Friends of Fort Malden. held annually the are offering free weekend before the A admission to all Website - Coming soon Labour Day is the major fundraiser Park Canada for the Gibson Gallery. This Arts locations, and Facebook and Craft Festival, which was first we want you to join us for the https://www.facebook.com/friendsof held in 1967, is Essex County’s celebration. fortmalden original Arts & Crafts Show. It has Pick up your 2017 free Discovery grown into an end of summer Pass today at the Visitors Centre. tradition in Amherstburg, attracting 150 artists and artisans from across What is Free? 2017 will be the 51st

anniversary of this event! ➢ Admission to all national parks,

national historic sites and Please note this is a third party national conservation areas event and special admission fees operated by Parks Canada apply to enter Fort Malden. ➢ Lockage at Parks Canada’s historic canals and waterways.

God Save the Queen!!

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