As part of the region’s Be a Tourist in your own Home Town event, Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse are offering interpretive presentations for visitors this weekend.
The events, running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, will feature the National Historic Site’s new Women on the Home Front exhibit, as well as presentations showcasing military artifacts. The lighthouse will be open to the public and visitors will have a chance to play with its interactive exhibits.
Volunteers from the Victoria Esquimalt Military Re-enactors Association will also be stationed at the fort’s plotting room to recreate what the site was like during the height of the Cold War.
Re-enactor Don Thomas will provide a special presentation on medical aspects of the Korean War beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Finally, Parks Canada staff will be on site sharing information about summer programming and one of the site’s oTENTiks tent/cabin hybrids will be open for visitors to see how they can spend a night within the fort’s walls in the summer.
Admission to the site is free all year as part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations.
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