Rates & Programs

Daily Public Program Rates and Activities
Hours of Operation and Rates

For 2010, Discovery Harbour is open per the following schedule:

May 25 to June 30: open Monday to Friday (Tuesday opening on first week)10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; last admission 4:30 p.m.

June 26 to September 5: open daily 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; last admission 4:30 p.m.

Special Offer: Purchase one Adult Admission at either Discovery Harbour or Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and receive 50% off one Adult Admission to the other site! Offer can be used to September 5, 2010. Discovery Harbour and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons are just 20 minutes drive from each other.

Rates (5% GST not included)

(Please note: Rates subject to change)

May 25 to September 5:

Adult	$6.00
Senior (65+)	$5.00
Student (13+)	$5.25
Youth (6-12)	4.25
Children 5 years and under	FREE
Support person accompanying a paying visitor with a disability: FREE

Site maps are available in English and French.

Guided tours of the historic site are available and recommended. Please inquire about our family and group rates.

Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Interac are accepted for historic site admissions. Current American dollar exchange rate is offered.

Policies

Pets are welcome on a leash. Bags provided to "stoop and scoop"
Smoking is allowed in designated areas only.

Please call us in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our very best to accommodate you.

Public Program Activities

Come visit us: The experience of another lifetime

A sawpit demonstration Discovery Harbour is one of the most picturesque historic sites in Ontario, with a scenic shoreline, replica ships and smaller vessels, historic buildings, and an original Officers' Quarters along beautiful Penetanguishene Bay. Throughout July and August, take a lively tour of the original historic areas and sense what it was like to be a sailor, officer, or artisan living and working at this remote outpost.

Furling the mainsail on the Schooner Bee Discovery Harbour offers special summer activities occurring on the historic properties. Daily program features include 19th century cooking, sailor's ropework, quill pen writing, dockyard demonstrations and historic games. You can also explore the replica ships H.M.S. Bee and H.M.S. Tecumseth both on-deck and below. Both vessels are stationed at the King's Wharf throughout the season.

The magnificent Officers’ Quarters is the only original building on the historic site, and has been fully restored and furnished to represent the 1840's period.

Original construction of the Officers’ Quarters began in 1831, but it was not until the summer of 1836 that the roof was completed and the building became habitable. The building was constructed from dressed limestone and was faced on the interior with brick walls that were covered with lathe and plaster. It was built to last!

The Officers’ Quarters was the largest of all the Officers’ Quarters built by the British in Upper Canada and is one of the few from the 19th-century that remains today.

Contact Discovery Harbour (705) 549-8064 for additional information.