cktimes.ca Archives: Selkirk History Faire enjoys perfect weekend!!!!!
Originally posted on: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
A gun crew from the HMS Magnet...Bev Mellon, Peter Waller, Richard Wadington, Jim Mellon and Thomas Waller... |
British native aliies...Debbie Clyner, Lynda Balena, Kim Loundsbury and Patrick Doyle... |
Canadian voyageurs.....Bob Pence, Ken Fisher, Don Verhaeghe and Alan Irvine.... |
Thomas Stoddart and Doug Robinson (Shaymus Gunn) are tending store.... |
Pioneer ladies out for a walk.....Pauline Grondin amd Bonnie Ribaric... |
Making pottery for the new settlement....Penni Stoddart while daughter Emily looks on..... |
Visitors were arriving in steady numbers to McDonald Park along the St. Clair Parkway on Saturday and Sunday to see the Selkirk History Faire, an excellent example of what can be accomplished when a group of community-minded volunteers decides to create an event. Re-enactors came from across Southern Ontario to take part in the special weekend – there were native Americans, voyageurs, fur traders and most other examples of the early 19th Century life that is being recreated. cktimes' photographer John Gardiner dropped by the site and snapped these photos. Next weekend, the action moves to Fairfield Museum for a War of 1812 re-enactment.
