Black Creek Pioneer Village I

Black Creek Pioneer Village I

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Black Creek Pioneer Village allows you to travel back in time. It is more than a collection of buildings and artifacts. In Black Creek Pioneer Village, visitors become immersed in the customs, lifestyles and surroundings of early residents of Canada, who built the foundations for modern Toronto and Ontario at the typical crossroads community village found in the Toronto area during the 1800’s.

All the pictures have been taken by Elena.

The Black Creek Village is a living tribute to the Toronto area’s pioneering roots.

Black Creek Pioneer Village boasts a magnificent telling history of its own.

Black Creek Historic Brewery is located in the heart of the village. There a working brewery has been recreated, as it would have been in the mid-1800s. The brewers, in period costume, handcraft the same ales and porters enjoyed in Ontario's country villages before Canadian Confederation.

Flat to the wall cupboard, typical furniture of the 19th century,

Black Creek Village pond.

This country road gives visitors a chance to explore the world the way it was in early Ontario, in the 1800s.

Visitors can go inside the buildings, examine the details of what they see, and ask how the building was used, who used it, and why things were the way they were.

Because the village offers an authentic historic experience, visitors won't find many information signs. But you will find knowledgeable interpreters and trades people in period dress, who are there to explain things. You are welcome to approach them and ask questions.

Mackenzie House, built in 1837. Original Location: Woodbridge, Ontario (Islington Avenue and Hwy. #7). This tiny log cabin was enlarged in 1850 to a 1 ½ storey home including a kitchen wing to more adequately house a family. The final occupant of the Mackenzie house was the great grandson of the original settler Major Addison Alexander (Lex) Mackenzie after whom Major Mackenzie Drive in York Region is named.

We live in a time when people are inundated by messages promoting competing ideas, products, values, services. Black Creek Pioneer Village helps people make sense of it all through the lens of Canadian history.