Mar 15, 2023 | Arts & Culture
Experience the Arts Find your inner artist Start creating in the Haliburton Highlands Re-fuel your creative juices at workshops and live-demonstrations by talented makers working with paint, metal, glass, clay, fibre, cardboard, and even music and theater. Get...
Apr 1, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Plan your Trip
Local Landmarks Plan your Visit Will you be able to visit them all? A big red shoe, a TTC car, a giant logger: scattered around the Haliburton Highlands are an amazing collection of Local Landmarks. Some are so well known we use them daily; “Go past the train engine...
May 20, 2021 | Adventure, Arts & Culture, From a Distance
With just about all activities curtailed by COVID-19, there is one thing people can still do outside while practicing social distancing – and that’s the Lapine Lap in Minden. The Lapine Lap is a scavenger hunt for murals that are scattered around Minden featuring...
Apr 16, 2020 | Arts & Culture, From a Distance
It may be hard to imagine what Haliburton was like when lumbering was at its height, but what about Donald? Richard Donald came to Dysart around 1908 and set up operations for the Wood Products Company of Canada. By 1915, the operation had been taken over by the...
Nov 29, 2019 | Arts & Culture
If you’re like us, you can feel Christmas coming on. The heady excitement of the holidays is building. The joy of timeworn traditions — trimming the tree, a warm crackling fire, and festive cheer with friends and family. It’s a wonderful time of...
Jun 4, 2019 | Arts & Culture
Half a dozen historic buildings comprise the Heritage Village, including a pioneer farmstead with a settler’s home, barn and cook house. – Photos courtesy Minden Hills Museum Engaging children as a means of exploring Minden’s past is an important part...
