Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: Noon to 4 p.m.
In 1910, Moffat and Albert Aiken established Aiken Brothers Hardware. Younger brother Harvey joined after the First World War. In 1961, the business passed to nephew Ross Aiken and, in 1964, it became a Home Hardware. The building sits on the boundary between South Bruce Peninsula and the Township of Arran-Elderslie. Two-time recipient of the Golden Hammer Award.
517 Brown Street, Wiarton (519) 534-1200 Architect: Builder, Chuck Tanner; Year Built: c. 1885
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This building was erected of local limestone around 1885, and has changed little since then. It has served many uses over the years. In 1900, it was a woolen mill consisting of three floors. For the past 50 years, it has operated as Barfoot’s Welding & Machine Shop.
38 Beckons Lane, RR 4, Wiarton (519) 534-1256 www.thebrucebeckons.ca Year Built: c. 1800
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
An antique shop established here in 1979 outgrew the small Ontario log cabin in which it had been housed. In its place, in 1996, this wonderful log farmhouse from Levis, Quebec, dating from around 1800, was dismantled and reassembled on this site, bringing its Quebec history with it. The house retains its original logs, windows, front door and rafters.
3 Rankin Bridge Road, Sauble Beach (519) 422-1760 Year Built: Original portion, 1886
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Built in 1886 as a school, the building also served as Sauble Falls’ community centre and a house of worship for various groups. The student population varied with the health of the timber industry, and at times included children from Chief’s Point Reserve. The school closed in 1946, and in 1964 the building became Christ the King Lutheran Chapel.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This former estate, once home to Alexander McNeill, MP for North Bruce, 1881 to 1901, boasted beautiful gardens, manicured lawns and orchards, and was a productive farm. The Corran, McNeill’s 17-room mansion, was furnished with oriental carvings, tapestries and book-lined walls. The property was sold to Grey Sauble Conservation in 1976. Shortly after, fire destroyed the mansion.
3092 Bruce County Road 13, Wiarton (519) 534-2767 www.oec.bwdsb.on.ca Architect: New buildings, Patrick Johnson; Year Built: Mason House, 1908; barn, 1886
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Saturday only: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The institute is the Bluewater District School Board’s outdoor education facility. The 1886 barn, 1908 stone farmhouse and portage route provide historic backdrops for outdoor learning. Portable facilities were recently replaced by the Lodge and the Bruce Power Environmental Learning Classrooms. The E.S. Fox Astronomical Centre will open this fall.
3 Lakeview Avenue, Oliphant (519) 534-2218 Architect: Builders, Robert Alderson, Hector McKenzie, Thomas Moore, John Hutchinson; Year Built: 1899
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Oliphant Pioneer Methodist Church, now a United Church, was built in 1899 with mostly volunteer help and donated supplies. A simple rectangular wooden structure, using balloon framing on footings (double tongue-and-groove), it has three pointed Gothic windows per side. The south gable end features a wind porch that originally had coloured glass in its transom.
5 Bryant Street, Oliphant (519) 534-3310 Year Built: 1905
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Three generations were educated in this former little stone schoolhouse at the crossroads in Oliphant, from the school’s opening in 1905 until its closing in June 1966. Built from limestone as a plain rectangular building, it features a simple steeple with a bell atop the west gable end. A limestone wind porch was added in 2004.
462 Huron Bay Road, Red Bay (519) 534-1027 www.redbaylodge.com Year Built: 1948
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In the late 1940s, the Knotty Pine Lodge opened here as a country-style lodge with a few cabins. As the Red Bay Lodge, it now boasts 15 rustic cabins and 10 lodge rooms, and is situated on 50 acres of forest. The 18,000-square-foot facility includes a massive games room, an indoor swimming pool, a spa, saunas, and a tennis court.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In 2001, Sauble Beach, the second longest freshwater beach in the world, was voted the number-one beach in Ontario by the Toronto Star. In 2004, Macleans magazine named it one of the top 10 beaches in Canada. Pass under the 40-year-old welcoming arch and take in this pristine shore.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This reinforced concrete and steel bridge, built by Theodore Seaman in 1930, replaced a wooden bridge over the head race and a wire foot bridge with a wooden-plank deck, which swung over the falls. This historic site also includes information about the area’s sawmill, hydroelectric plant, post office and general store, school and homes.
7757 Highway 21, Allenford (519) 934-1712 Year Built: 1877
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Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Built in 1877 on James Allen’s farm for the daughter of a local merchant, this appealing house has decorated gables, patterned red and buff brick and bay windows. The house was later purchased by a succession of people, the first being Dr. Archibald Bryant Taylor. In 1917, it was purchased by George Wain, who owned it until 1988.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Trinity Anglican was completed in 1891. Built by Edward Kyte, a master stonemason, with mostly volunteer labour, it is constructed of rusticated limestone with four fine points on top of the tower. Three original, though altered, chimneys remain. The triple windows, repeated throughout the building, feature both imported and local stained glass.
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This 1904 Canadian National Railway station closed in 1960. In 1971, it was moved from its former site to Bluewater Park. Built entirely of wood in combined château and stick styles, the station has Queen Anne towers on its bay side and magnificent coffered tongue-and-groove ceilings inside. It now houses the Tourist Information Centre and a small craft shop.
