Sheep Shearing Weekend

Discover the amazing world of wool

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Spring is a special time at the Canada Agriculture Museum, where lambs are born and sheep are shorn. Visit the Museum during the May long weekend, and discover the amazing world of wool! Enjoy sheep-shearing demonstrations given by an expert shearer several times each day and see how many different objects can be made.

Watch border collies take part in agility competitions, and try knitting with the help of experts. Children can get creative making a fun sheep-themed craft, while also helping Little Bo Peep to find her sheep. It’s “shear” fun at the Canada Agriculture Museum this Victoria Day weekend.

Highlights:

• Sheep Shearing: With summer fast approaching, it’s time to shear the sheep’s winter wool. Watch a professional sheep shearer at work!
  
  
• Sheep Herding with Sheepdogs: See a shepherd and his dogs working together to herd a flock of sheep.
  
  
• Sheepdog Agility: Be amazed at the agility of border collies as they race through an obstacle course.
  
  
• Wool Carding: Learn about an important step in the transformation of wool, and try it for yourself with a pair of carding combs.
  
  
• Felt Making: Make felt from sheep’s wool while discovering the history of the world’s oldest fabric.

2012 Sheep Shearing Video

Also...

Sheep Shearing Festival School Program

JK to Grade 3/K to Cycle 2
$10 per student
May 16 to 18, 2012
From 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The Museum’s annual sheep extravaganza is an unforgettable experience! Watch sheep being shorn, make felt, card and dye wool, meet a lamb up close, and watch sheepdogs in action—these are just a few of the activities students can try at hands-on stations! (A-2)
Click here to register.

General information

The Canada Agriculture Museum is located on the Central Experimental Farm, Prince of Wales Drive, between the traffic circle and Baseline Road.

Free parking.

For more information, please visit our Visitor Information page or call 613-991-3044.

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