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Celebrate September at the
Canada Agriculture Museum

OTTAWA, August 28, 2009
For immediate release

Did you know that Ottawa is the only world Capital that has a working farm at its heart? Canada's unique agricultural heritage is featured at the Canada Agriculture Museum, where you can explore the sights and sounds of typical farm life. Each month the Museum offers a range of activities. Come down with your family and experience agriculture at the Canada Agriculture Museum.

Daily Demonstrations in September
Every day, visitors can learn more about Canadian agriculture and about the food and fibres that make our way of life possible. This September, experience:

  • Rabbit Care: Let a Museum Guide introduce you to a rabbit and to the ways we care for them.

  • Children's Story and Craft: Enjoy a quiet moment in the Activity Centre as a Museum Guide reads a story. Stay a while longer to create a lovely craft.

  • Eggs-periments: Everyone knows that you can scramble them, poach them and fry them, but did you know that you can spin them to see if they're raw, or float them to see if they're fresh? Come learn more about this incredible food by helping with some eggs-periments.

  • All About Milk: From cow to consumer, see for yourself the steps milk goes through to be ready to drink.

  • Check out the Chickens: Enjoy an up-close and personal encounter with one of the Museum's hens or roosters and learn more about the products we can get from them.

  • Cow Washing or Care: Daily animal care is a must at the Canada Agriculture Museum. Watch as a Museum Guide grooms a dairy cow or gives her a shower.

  • Meet Goody the Bull: One of the only males at the Museum, Goody has an important role to play. Learn about beef cattle and why they are raised on Canadian farms.

  • The Buzz about Honeybees: Discover the essential role bees play in the pollination of many Canadian food crops while exploring the beekeeper's work at keeping the colony healthy.

  • Afternoon Milking: See how Museum staff milk the dairy herd by machine each afternoon and learn where the milk goes once it leaves the cow.

As a national institution within the Canadian Heritage Portfolio, the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation is responsible for preserving and protecting Canada's scientific and technological heritage and promoting and sharing knowledge about that heritage. The Corporation and its three Museums-the Canada Agriculture Museum, the Canada Aviation Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum -tell the stories of Canadian ingenuity and achievement in science and technology, and demonstrate how these accomplishments have contributed to the building of our country.

General information:
Visit agriculture.technomuses.ca or call 613-991-3044

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Media Contact:
Caroline Desabrais
613-949-5732
cdesabrais@technomuses.ca