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Win A Prize Until Oct. 2 With The Heritage Passport!
Posted September 26, 2011 @ 11:12AM
This fall, you can win a prize while discovering some of the area’s most fascinating history. Between September 6 and October 2 you can pick up a passport at any of the participating museums and heritage centres. Your passport will be stamped at each site you visit (regular admission fees, if any, apply). Collect four or more stamps for your chance to win. Each site is offering a prize valued at $25 or more—so that means eleven opportunities to win books, prints, local crafts and services.
The participating sites include:
· Amherstburg: Park House Museum, Gibson Gallery, North American Black Historical Museum
· Windsor: Windsor Wood Carving Museum, Windsor’s Community Museum
· Essex: Essex County Historical Society/Heritage Essex (train station), ECHRS (Carnegie library)
· Harrow: HEIRS, John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area
· Leamington: Leamington Arts Centre (includes Erie Quest, Heinz exhibits)
· Pelee Island: Pelee Island Heritage Centre
Heritage Passport is organized by the Essex Region Conservation Authority on behalf of the Southwestern Ontario Heritage Council. ERCA Curator Janet Cobban said, “Following last winter’s successful Local Treasures exhibition, our regional museum team has created another special program. Heritage Passport is part of Culture Days, Canada’s late September celebration of the arts.”
The municipality of Chatham-Kent is just finishing a similar Passport to the Past. It ends on Labour Day, when the Windsor/Essex/Pelee Island program begins. “We invite our neighbours to travel west and discover our joint stories”, added Cobban. “Two hundred years ago this entire region was one unit - the Western District of Upper Canada.”
Contact any of the participating sites to learn more and to pick up your passport – then go exploring. Web links to each of the sites can be found under the news link at www.erca.org.
by Lisa Rene-De-Cotret Biz X Magazine
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