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Father's Day at the Canada Agriculture Museum

Father's Day at the Canada Agriculture Museum

Sunday, June 19, 2005

OTTAWA, June 10, 2005
For immediate release

Dads and granddads will enjoy the Museum's Tractors exhibition that follows the 100-year-old story of the farm tractor from unfamiliar oddity to commonplace tool on the Canadian farm. Kids will be able to make a craft for Dad and colour Father's Day theme pictures. Also, visitors will learn all about "farm fathers". To celebrate Father's Day at the Canada Agriculture Museum, children and adults of all ages can participate in a panoply of demonstrations from ice cream making and bread making to goat milking. On this special day, all fathers enter free.

Daily Interpretation and Demonstrations
The following are the activities and demonstrations that will be featured at the Museum during Father's Day:

10:00 Meet the Pigs and the Boar - Small Animal Barn

10:30 Meet the Father of the Lambs: The Ram - Small Animal Barn

11:00 Goat Milking Demonstration - Sheep Field

11:30 Folktale "How the Rooster got his Crown" - Classroom

12:30 Meet Goody the Bull - Horse and Cattle Barn

1:15 Cow Washing or Care - Dairy Barn

1:45 Ice Cream Making and Tasting - Memory Park

2:30 The Buzz About Honey Bees - Demonstration Kitchen (Exhibitions)

3:15 Help Feed the Sheep - Small Animal Barn

3:45 Afternoon Milking - Dairy Barn

Bread Making and Tasting (10:00, 12:00, and 1:00)
Visitors can help one of our friendly interpreters make tasty bread in the Demonstration Kitchen.

"Name that Dad" Scavenger Hunt (ongoing)
Most people have heard of a "rooster" or a "bull" but what about a "drake", a "jack" or a "tom"? Visitors will have fun with this Scavenger Hunt as they try to guess the correct names for male farm animals.

Craft for Dad (ongoing)
Children will have fun making craft specially for their fathers.

Colouring Activity (on going)
Children will enjoy colouring a special Father's Day theme picture for dad.

Also...

Visitors can discover the exhibitions Tractors and One Hundred Years of Science in Agriculture.

Children can try our new "Eggs-citing" Inspect the Farm challenge.

Children's Activity Centre located on the Exhibitions level.

Tally-Ho Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides ($), weather permitting

Food services will be available on site for the one-day event, "The Hot Potato Co." ($).

Not to be missed...

Through Her, an exhibition of oil paintings by Crystal Beshara from Ottawa, runs June 2 to September 5
Canada Day and Canadian Breed Horse Days, July 1 and 2

The Canada Agriculture Museum connects Canadians and the world to the historical and current importance in everyday life of agricultural science and technology through engaging interpretive activities and products centred on an accessible demonstration farm.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Museum Hours:
Daily demonstrations from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Animal Barns and Exhibitions daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Admission Prices (GST included. Prices subject to change without notice.)
Adults: $6.00
Seniors (60+): $5.00
Students: $5.00
Children (3-14): $3.00
Children under 3: Free
Families (2 adults and 3 kids): $13.00
Families with additional children: $2.00 per extra child
Families with additional adults: $3.00 per extra adult
Members: Free
Special rates available for groups (16 or more).

Location:
Prince of Wales Drive, south of the traffic circle, north of Baseline Road. Free parking. The Canada Agriculture Museum is located on Prince of Wales Drive on the Central Experimental Farm.

Telephone: 613 991-3044
Toll free: 866 442-4416
TTY: 613 991-9207
Fax: 613 993-7923
Reservations for guided tours & school programs: 613 991-3053

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MEDIA CONTACT:

David Sutin
Manager, Communications, Marketing and Farm Operations
CANADA AGRICULTURE MUSEUM
Tel. 613 996-7812;
E-mail : dsutin@technomuses.ca
Web Site: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca
or
Lucie Robillard
Communications, Marketing and Visitor Statistic Clerk
Tel. 613 943-1164;
E-mail : lrobillard@technomuses.ca
Web Site: www.agriculture.technomuses.ca