The 30-acre site, which is marking its 50th year of operation, is packed with more than 30,000 artifacts in a collection of buildings next to the Pat Bay Highway
Thousands of cars whiz past the tidy property and rows of antique farm and industrial equipment along the Pat Bay Highway every day — and yet few venture inside to take a trip through more than a century of history on Vancouver Island.
The 30-acre site, which is marking its 50th year of operation, is a fascinating place, packed with more than 30,000 artifacts in a collection of buildings skirting a forest and open grassy area. Displays are set up to mimic life in Saanich at the turn of the last century, including a barber shop, printing presses, general store, haberdashery and a blacksmith shop. There’s a collection of restored buggies and carriages from when horse power ruled, pioneer household items, sewing and textiles, cameras, books, model toys and clocks.
This year, the site’s annual Harvest Fall Fair, scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17, will also include demonstrations of blacksmithing, woodworking and the process of making linen from flax straw. Hopkins said the historical artifacts society started coming together in the early 1960s when pioneer farmers on the Saanich Peninsula like Willard Michell — whose family still farms there today — wanted to start preserving old farm machinery.
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