What’s new @ The Fort

Hey all!

It’s been awhile hasn’t it? Well Louis Riel Day was a great success and our volunteers, as always, made the event run smoothly! We give them our gratitude and want to take this opportunity to remind our volunteers and the community how grateful and thankful we are for them! This museum could not be run without them!

We are currently (and always) recruiting volunteers! If you are interested in the fort, have some free time that you’d like to do something with or would like to meet new, fun, energetic people, volunteering here at the Fort Dauphin Museum is a fantastic option for you! We would love to have you!

School tours are fast approaching. If you are an educator and are reading this, we are now booking school tours for the next couple of months. It is a great option for an educational, fun and entertaining field trip and your students are sure to love it! Kids are facinated with many aspects of the museum and it is a very educational experience for them. If this interests you, you can find out more about prices, etc by calling us at (204) 638-6630.

Some other things that are new and exciting at the fort is that we are now hosting birthday parties. It was brought to our attention last month that parents are running out of fun and exciting things to do in Dauphin for children’s birthday parties. We talked it over with our board members and they agreed that it was a good idea. So here we are, ready and waiting for birthday parties to be booked! We have several different options available to parents and if you would like more information on birthday parties, you can again contact us at (204) 638-6630.

AND…. Opening Day is fast approaching as well! It’s hard to believe considering all the snow that is left on the ground but we have begun planning and we hope it will be a new and exciting experience for all who attend! More information to follow in the coming weeks!

Upcoming event: Louis Riel Day

Louis Riel Day is somehow right around the corner! It’s been sneaking up on us here at the Fort, like most of our events do. It’s just over a month away and we are hard at work. All we hope is that it will be as big a success as Christmas at the Fort was (which was a fantastic success and thanks to everyone who helped out).

Anyways, the posters are complete and the most of the plans are in place.

Louis Riel Day is on Feburary 18, 2013 and so we will be holding some festivities here at the Fort. Activities include wagon rides, bannock in the tipi, a warm up station in the trading post with free hot chocolate and coffee and much more to come. The event will run from 1-4PM.

Come out and celebrate Manitoba’s founding father with us here at Fort Dauphin!

Upcoming Event: Christmas at the Fort!

Hey guys,

Guess what? Christmas at the Fort is three days away and we’ve finished planning everything to a T!

Here’s what’s happening:

• Santa is coming!
• Free hot chocolate
• Free admission
• Sleigh rides
• Fun winter games
• Bannock in the Tipi
• Children’s storytime
• Raffle table
• Bake sale table

Bring the kids! Bring yourself! Bring your friends! It’s bound to be nothing but fun times! The weather is supposed to be great and we’re getting super excited here at the museum for Christmas at the Fort!

See you there!

 

Update: Christmas at the Fort

Hello all,

Guess what time of year it is again? It’s Christmas at the Fort time! Well, not just yet. But by the time it’s the middle of November everyone will be in the Christmas spirit and will be ready to admit that it’s Christmas at the Fort time!

Anyways, when you’re ready to admit it,the date for that is December 1st. It will be a fabulous time. We’ve already begun planning for it and posters will be up within the next couple of weeks! So far we have confirmed that there will be sleigh rides for the kids, children’s storytime, carolling, bannock in the tipi, and many other things.

Mark December 1st on your calendars! You’re bound to have a great time! Bring the kids!

Upcoming Event: Rendezvous

Hello all!

Our Annual Fur Trader’s Rendezvous is coming up this Sunday the 16th! Come out and have some fun. There will be entertainment provided, a food and drink concession, games such as high kick, cat & mouse and the Fort favourite, log-sawing and tours of the buildings!

Admission is free for the event and a silver collection will be at the door. There will be knowledgable volunteers handy to answer your questions while touring the buildings. Games will be sure to enthrall and entertain children and the fiddler’s we have lined up as entertainment are sure to be a hit!

So remember, Rendezvous will be occuring on the 16th of September from 1-4pm. We’ll see you there!

 

Upcoming Events: Street Fair Update

Hello all,
If you haven’t heard about the Dauphin Chamber of Commerce Street Fair before, here’s a quick summary. Street Fair is a giant street party with vendors and a main stage where there’s music and dancing. In recent years, it has been known around Dauphin as the Canadian National Ukrainian Festival’s (CNUF) kick-off party.

We have a food booth yearly and this year we’re planning for lots of people and a great time. Come out early in the morning before work and purchase a pancake breakfast, $5 for 3 pancakes and 3 sausages… what a deal! Then we’ll be selling Hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs and smokies for the rest of the day!

Come by and check us out on August 2. We’ll be there all day and all the proceeds go towards supporting and keeping up the buildings and displays in our beautiful museum. Hope to see you there!

Manitoba Weather

Living in Manitoba we expect the unexpected when it comes to our weather. Will it rain this weekend? The forecast currently says yes, but in an hour that could all change.  Having spent the week trying to predict what we will be seeing this weekend (sun? rain? snow?), we have decided to cancel our Opening Day celebrations at the Fort Dauphin Museum. With the rain we have already received, the grounds at the Fort are fairly damp.  If we receive any of the rain that is forecast for this weekend, it will be incredibly wet at the Fort.  Thus we have made the decision to cancel.

The Museum will however be open for visitors beginning on Monday, May 7th.  For May and June our doors will be open Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM, so feel free to stop on by for a visit!