What better way to celebrate B.C. Day than to get a glimpse of how life used to be? The Burnaby Village Museum is offering a special B.C. Day Market Monday on Aug. 5, running from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Visitors will be able to enjoy all the usual fun at the museum, strolling the streets of the 1920s heritage village.
For B.C. Day, there will also be plenty of other activities for the whole family to enjoy.
Take part in a "Crack the Code" Morse decoder scavenger hunt, create sound effects at the Foley pit and talk to ham radio operators around the world at the radio lab.
There will be displays on the history of radio and radio technology, plus a Radios on the Rails display by Canadian National Railway, a Miniature Club of B.C. Display, a Canadiana Costume Society display of 1930 Family Radio Night, and the showing of a 1938 film about radio sound effects.
Visitors will also be able to enjoy a special market, with vendors including Barefoot Books, with books and gifts for kids; Creative Leather Crafts, with leather goods; Nasty Free Naturals, products for body and pets; Sweet Thea Cakes, with pies and tarts; Slavic Rolls, with dessert pastries; and Brenda Lee, with jewelry.
There will be heritage games from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m and an Edwardian bicycling demonstration from noon to 3 p.m. Entertainment will also be on throughout the day, with a variety of entertainers - including Yo Yo Man, Creole Jazz Band, Ruffle Redbird and Peter G-G, stilt walker - taking part throughout the day.
Gate admission is free. Rides on the 1912 C.W. Parker Carousel are $2.35.
For more, check out www.burnaby villagemuseum.ca or call 604-297-4565.
Burnaby Village Museum is at 6501 Deer Lake Ave.
