The new 1912 Regina Tornado tours, exhibit and website commissioned by the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC), the Regina Plains Museum and The Great Excursions Company have just been launched.
The website titled "A Window into the Regina Tornado of 1912" is part of the VMC's Community Memories Series. The exhibit shows enlarged versions of never before seen historic photographs of the worst tornado in Canada's history. The Companion tours enhance both the website and the exhibit though overland narratives and the interpretation of historical documents not available elsewhere than on the tour.
This experiential initiative is the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Regina Plains Museum—the civic museum and community-based institution with the most extensive collection of artifacts about life in and around Regina—and The Great Excursions Company, an internationally-recognized learning and enrichment tourism experience stager with exclusive archaeological expertise on the evolution of Regina's early built environment.
If the Regina Tornado is widely acknowledged as one of the defining moments in the history of the City, we have yet to fully grasp the ways in which this catastrophic event has helped shape our collective identity as Queen City dwellers.
Through the Museum exhibit, visitors will get a sense of how artifacts in the form of photographs, period documents, objects and building materials samples convey some of the impacts of the tornado on the city and its inhabitants.
Through the walking tours over the contemporary landscape, participants will acquire a more vivid knowledge of how the tornado affected the built environment. They will feel and be able to relive some of the perceptions, mysteries and unsuspected impacts a climatic event like this one might inflict on a population.
Through the website, visitors will be able to gain added insight into some of the human adaptation strategies at play when a tragedy like that which resulted from the passage of the tornado hits a booming city like Regina in 1912.
The exhibit is on at the Regina Plains Museum until September 30th.
Walking tours are held from Wednesday to Saturday from 8:00-9:30pm.
Prices are: Individuals: $10.00 + GST* Couples: $18.00 + GST*
*Service charges apply
Ticket for Children 12 and under are available at departure point ($5.00)
All other tickets are on sale now at Casino Regina and the Conexus Arts Centre
Tours depart from Victoria Park at the south entrance across from the Hotel Saskatchewan (on Victoria Ave).
Our most heart felt thanks go to Plains Museum Staff Christa Donaldson and Jaymie Koroluk, two passionate contributors who have helped ensure the success of this project.
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