A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF HURON TRADITIONS,
PAST AND PRESENT
Visitors are welcomed all year long by a guide dressed in a Huron traditional costume. From May to October between 9h to 5h a welcoming dance is performed at the beginning of the guided tour.
The guided tour consists of :
- Visit of the Long House, (Huron’s traditional housing). Presentation of the Huron’s way of life.
- Visit of the smokehouse and the drying tent. Comments on methods of food preservation.
- Visit of the sweating tent. Presentation on purification techniques used by our ancestors
- We make stop at the giant tee-pee. Informations about the way of life of Native Indians from different Québec Nations.
- Presentation on traditional means of transportation and on the making of canoes and snowshoes. Visitors are invited to take a seat in large canoes to listen to the guide.
- Presentation on the present life of the Hurons in the village of Wendake.
The guided tour is offered all year long come snow, rain or shine. All exhibits are covered in case of rain and can accommodate an entire group. The guided tour is offered in French, English and Spanish.
The guided tour lasts approximately 2 hours which includes free time to allow visitors to go back to the site, take pictures and visit our shop.
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