Coming on the heels of a successful season, the Burnaby Village Museum is hosting its annual Labour Day fair on the final holiday Monday of summer.
From 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 2, everyone, young and old, are encouraged to come down and check out the festivities as the museum celebrates Labour Day with an old-fashioned fair, said Nancy Stagg, marketing coordinator for the museum. "There's heritage games, games of chance, bean bag throws, entertainment," she says. "We also have market vendors on site."
The Labour Day fair has been a staple at the Burnaby Village Museum for years.
It first began when the museum was open for a longer season and Labour Day was just another holiday Monday celebration, much like the museum's Canada Day or B.C. Day events, Stagg explained.
"We would close the season with a fairly traditional fall fair, so we've kind of morphed it into still a celebration of the end of our season by doing more of a heritage fair," she added.
"We've moved away from some of those traditional fall activities - the baking contests, the canning contests - it's just a little early in the season to be calling it a fall fair."
This year's fair follows the season's radio theme with a number of radio games and displays, including crack the code: Morse decoder scavenger hunt, Radios on the Rails: Canadian National Railway, 1930 Family Radio Night: Canadiana Costume Society Display and Melodies in Mind - which Stagg is especially excited about.
"The show will be bringing in some artists and it will be done live, but then they're also recording it for broadcasting later," she said. "It's been award winning and the program has been successfully broadcasted over the SFU airwaves and others."
For kids, there will be lots of activities, including the everpopular sack race, corn-shucking contest, and carousel rides, which are free on Sept. 2. "The carousel rides are actually compliments of CUPE Local 23 and the Burnaby Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission," she said.
For more information, visit www.burn abyvillagemuseum.ca/EN/main/visit/events/events/labour-day-fall-fair.html.
