Le Musée de St. Boniface Museum

RESERVING A TOUR   Reser­va­tions are required a week in advance. You will receive a con­fir­ma­tion by fax or email; it must be signed and returned to com­plete the reser­va­tion. In case of a can­cel­la­tion, please give the Museum 48 hours advance notice, to avoid being billed.    

*all book­ings include self-guiding in the Museum before or after your program/tour  

 To reserve please con­tact:    Car­mène Fiola, Vis­i­tor Ser­vices Coor­di­na­tor  204.986.8496     cfiola@​msbm.​mb.​ca      

 

 

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING AT THE MUSEUM

 

 May 22^nd to June 29^th 2012

 

THEATRE IN THE CEMETERY

 

   joint programming

 

   (Grades 5–12)

 

   Max­i­mum: 100 students

 

   Dura­tion: 2 hours

 

   Cost: $8.00 per student

 

 In Riel’s Foot­steps is a guided tour with atti­tude, a the­atri­cal expe­ri­ence that makes learn­ing about French-Canadian and Métis her­itage fun and excit­ing. Your guide is Angélique Nolin, West­ern Canada’s first lay school teacher, a dynamic char­ac­ter who knows a lot about Manitoba’s his­tory.  She makes sure your visit is any­thing but a dull his­tory les­son. This play is fol­lowed or started by a museum tour.  

 

 May 16^th 2012

 

 

A VISIT WITH THE PEOPLE OF RED RIVER (Grades 4–6)

 

   Max­i­mum: 150 students

 

   Dura­tion: 2 hours

 

   Cost: $6.00 per student

 

  A spe­cial his­toric expe­ri­ence pre­sented by Man­i­toba Liv­ing  His­tory Soci­ety and Le Musée de Saint-Boniface Museum. Visit us on a voy­age of dis­cov­ery. Inter­act with the peo­ple of Red River dur­ing the Fur Trade and early Set­tle­ment era (1812–1845). A selec­tion of sta­tions will be ready for your stu­dents to expe­ri­ence. This is a ONE DAY  event with a morn­ing and after­noon ses­sion. First come first serve.

 

 

 

GUIDED TOURS  

THE MUSEUM

   (Grades K-12)

   Max­i­mum: 75 Students

   Dura­tion: 1 Hour

   Cost: $5.00 per student

Enjoy a guided tour of the Museum. Exhibits include; the early inhab­i­tants of the region, and the fur trade; the Red River cart; the his­tory of the Grey Nuns; Louis Riel; tra­di­tional crafts (spin­ning and black­smithing); the Cathe­drals of St. Boni­face; On the sec­ond floor, period rooms illus­trat­ing every­day life at the begin­ning of the 20^th cen­tury; and the choir loft con­tain­ing arte­facts from the for­mer City of St. Boniface.  

THE SAINT-BONIFACE CATHEDRAL

   (Grades K-12)

   Max­i­mum: 75 Students

   Dura­tion: 1 Hour

   Cost: $5.00 per Student

Visit the old­est ceme­tery in West­ern Canada and learn about its his­tory. Learn about Louis Riel’s con­tri­bu­tion to the cre­ation of Man­i­toba while vis­it­ing his gravesite. Dis­cover the ruins of the Basil­ica that burned in 1968 and see the spec­tac­u­lar stained glass win­dows in the most mod­ern of St. Boniface’s five cathedrals.  

THE MUSEUM AND CATHEDRAL

   (Grades K-12)

   Max­i­mum: 75 Students

   Dura­tion: 2 Hours

   Cost $6.00 per student

Enjoy a com­bi­na­tion of the two tours listed above to con­nect some of the ideas dis­cussed with the peo­ple and places involved.  Groups of up to 50 peo­ple can be accom­mo­dated on a tour. All pro­grams include a guided tour of the Museum itself. Reser­va­tions are required a week in advance so that enough guides are avail­able. You will receive a con­fir­ma­tion by fax; it must be signed and returned to com­plete the reser­va­tion. In case of a can­cel­la­tion, please give the Museum 48 hours’ advance notice, to avoid being billed.    

 

CURRICULUM BASED PROGRAMMING 

These pro­grams are tai­lored to the social stud­ies cur­ricu­lum. Every pro­gram includes a guided tour and an inter­ac­tive activ­ity where the stu­dents can go back in time and live an “authen­tic” expe­ri­ence. There is an edu­ca­tion kit avail­able for each of these pro­grams. The kits are avail­able at the DREF (945‑8594).

   Max­i­mum: 60 Students

   Dura­tion: 2 Hours

   Cost: $6.00 per Student

 THE GREY NUNS: PIONEER WOMEN OF THE RED RIVER (Grades K-3)

Who were the Grey Nuns and what were their every­day occu­pa­tions in the con­vent? Fol­low a Grey Nun or a blacksmith’s appren­tice to learn what impor­tant role the nuns had in the com­mu­nity and what impact they still have today. The tour will con­clude with a tra­di­tional snack pre­pared by the stu­dents themselves!  

INGENUITY AT THE MUSEUM (Grades 3–7)  

The stu­dents will dis­cover dif­fer­ent archi­tec­tural inno­va­tions which were used by the inhab­i­tants of the Red River Set­tle­ment. You will surely be impressed by the archi­tec­ture of the museum itself, the old­est build­ing in Win­nipeg, and of arte­facts such as the Red River cart! At the end of the tour, the stu­dents will roll up their sleeves and try out dif­fer­ent con­struc­tion tech­niques using tools of the period.  

LIFE IN THE SETTLEMENT (Grades K-6)

How did the peo­ple of the Red River Set­tle­ment live in the 19^th cen­tury? The stu­dents will com­pare yesterday’s lifestyle to today’s. They will also try out dif­fer­ent daily chores car­ried out by their ances­tors. Work sta­tions include laun­dry with a wash­ing board, card­ing wool, weav­ing, etc.  

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE SETTLEMENT (Com­ing Soon!) (Grades 4–11)

What were the rights and respon­si­bil­i­ties of the peo­ple in the Red River Set­tle­ment? Dis­cover what Louis Riel defended for his peo­ple. Have the rights and respon­si­bil­i­ties change over time? This tour will focus on the roles of each mem­ber of the com­mu­nity and will give the stu­dents the oppor­tu­nity to go back in time and live an expe­ri­ence of ‘authen­tic’ citizenship.    

 

OLD FAVOURITES 

These pro­grams include the activ­ity described and a guided tour of some of the museum exhibits.

    Max­i­mum: 60 Students

   Dura­tion: 1.5 Hours

   Cost: $7.00 per Student

 BILBOQUET – A MÉTIS RING-AND-PIN GAME (Grades 4–8)

Some form of this game is found all over the world. The Métis ver­sion is made of a disk with holes pierced in it; a stick is attached to the disk on a leather cord. The object of the game is to score points by catch­ing the disk on the stick. Par­tic­i­pants will make their very own bil­bo­quet as they learn more about the his­tory of the game, and then they can play!  

THE LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE (Grades 3–6)

Come in, sit down, and be good. A Grey Nun will give you a cal­lig­ra­phy les­son. Learn what school was like in the 19^th cen­tury when boys and girls sat at oppo­site ends of the room and home­work was done with a quill pen.  

MEDICINAL REMEDIES GAME(Grades 5–12)

What ill­ness can be warded off with the skin of a “chicoque”? – that’s a French word for skunk derived from the Ojib­way lan­guage. This enter­tain­ing game was prompted by some of the rec­ol­lec­tions of French-Canadian and Métis elders who recorded their oral his­tory. In it, you have to con­nect the med­i­cine with the ill­ness it is sup­posed to treat. The aim is to make us aware of how self-sufficient past gen­er­a­tions had to be in tak­ing care of their own health, and in find­ing and devel­op­ing cures. The activ­ity also shows how impor­tant it is to record oral history.