We went to Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg Ontario on the St. Lawrence River to check out a completely restored village set in the 1860's. There are more than 40 buildings on the 6o acre site and the costumed interpreters of Canadian history we talked to at length were superb. Being our visit was on a Monday and with only a few school buses of French-Canadian school children as our only fellow tourists, these guides gave us a great tour.
There was a canal to accommodate horse-drawn barges next to the St. Lawrence River. We took the ride to get a slow perspective of the area.
A waterwheel powered lumber mill.
A two-horse-powered saw.
The village school house had a pretty setting and not much else.
The entrance to the park.
The cheese making house. We bought and enjoyed eating some of the cheese samples afterward as well as the bread made on site.
One of the many 1860's free rides around the park.
A view of the horse-drawn plow working the fields there near the barge ride through the canal alongside the park.
The cloth making mill also powered by the water wheel.
A restored German Lutheran church. Many of the settlers in this part of Canada were German Lutheran immigrants. (And some of the others were British loyalists kicked out after the Revolutionary War.)
I am not sure of the significance of the carp pond, but we viewed it on the way out of Upper Canada Village.
There was a canal to accommodate horse-drawn barges next to the St. Lawrence River. We took the ride to get a slow perspective of the area.
A waterwheel powered lumber mill.
A two-horse-powered saw.
The village school house had a pretty setting and not much else.
The entrance to the park.
The cheese making house. We bought and enjoyed eating some of the cheese samples afterward as well as the bread made on site.
One of the many 1860's free rides around the park.
A view of the horse-drawn plow working the fields there near the barge ride through the canal alongside the park.
The cloth making mill also powered by the water wheel.
A restored German Lutheran church. Many of the settlers in this part of Canada were German Lutheran immigrants. (And some of the others were British loyalists kicked out after the Revolutionary War.)
I am not sure of the significance of the carp pond, but we viewed it on the way out of Upper Canada Village.
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