Guide and Scout programs
Our Guide and Scout programs feature historic cooking and crafts and tours of heritage houses. These programs are offered evenings and weekends at Bradley Museum or Benares Historic House.
Fees
1.5-hour programs are $6.70 per child
2-hour programs are $7.00 per child
Up to six adults are included for free per group. Separate fees apply for the overnight program.
Program descriptions
Explore how museums use research, artifact collections and programming to share local history through a series of interactive activities which will take participants around the museum in a scavenger hunt style game.
Location: Benares Historic House
Dates: September to June
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Scouts
Learn about the effect of WWI on the Canadian home front, the importance of remembrance and how you can impact the fight for peace across the world through a series of hands-on activities.
Location: Benares Historic House
Dates: September to June
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Scouts
Try your hand at activities that were essential to an early settler family including lighting a fire, mending your own clothing and growing your own food.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: September to June
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Beavers, Scouts
Explore the Bradley site on a geocaching quest using a compass and map and a GPS device to navigate the Bradley site searching for hidden caches.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: September to June
Ages: Embers, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Scouts
Explore the traditions and customs of celebrations at home and around the world.
Location: Benares Historic House
Dates: September to June
Ages: Beavers and Scouts
Learn about the urban wildlife and native pollinators that live in Mississauga and how we can protect our shared environment.
Location: Benares Historic House
Dates: April to June (outdoor activities)
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Beavers, and Scouts
Explore how games of coordination, imagination, cooperation, and memory helped prepare early settler children with the skills they needed at home and school.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: May and June (outdoor activities)
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Beavers, and Scouts
Learn about the history of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation in Mississauga and explore what Truth and Reconciliation means and how we all can contribute to the process.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: September, October, May, and June (outdoor activities)
Ages: Guides, Pathfinders, Rangers, and Scouts
Explore what we know and don’t know about the history of early Black settlers in Peel Region and discover how we learn about the experiences of people who lived in the past.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: May and June (outdoor activities)
Ages: Guides, Pathfinders, Rangers, and Scouts
Compare how Christmas traditions have changed and stayed the same from the 1830s to today.
Location: Benares Historic House
Dates: November to December
Ages: Beavers, Scouts
Discover how maple syrup is made from start to finish and compare the maple sugaring traditions of Indigenous communities, Early Settlers and modern maple sugar bushes.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: Mid-February to Early April
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Scouts
Arrive on a Friday or Saturday night for a sleepover at the Log Cabin. A pizza dinner and access to our fire pit are provided on the night of your arrival. The next morning, participants make a pancake breakfast and enjoy a program in the Bradley House. After the program, museum staff will cook a hot dog lunch with participants over the fire. All participants and leaders will receive a Log Cabin Overnight Crest.
Location: Bradley Museum
Dates: September to June
Ages: Sparks, Embers, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Scouts
Fees:
$52.00 per child plus HST
$26.00 per adult plus HST
The first two adults are free per group.