- August 8, 2009 9AM – 4:00PM
- starts at Beausejour Daylily Gardens
1st St. N. Beausejour
30 min. N.E. of Winnipeg
Tour Map/Derby Hands are $10 each or 3/$20. Buy your hands now – you can win even if you can’t be present!
For info or derby hands:
- Email: pokerderby [a] efree.mb.ca
- Phone: (204) 268-3950
- http://www.townofbeausejour.com/info
Hosted by the Friends of the Beausejour Daylily Gardens
Registration:
- Beausejour Daylily Gardens: a 2-acre American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden with thousands of daylilies, peonies, iris, lilies, prairie hardy fruit trees, and picnic site. Self guided tours.
Checkpoints
- Train Whistle Park: restored caboose, huge boulders from Lake Agassiz basin. Picnic site.
- St. Mary R.C. Church & Our Lady of La Salette Shrine: Leo Mol, world-renowned sculptor, painted the ceiling of St. Mary in 1951. Pathway along Stations of the Cross to shrine. Picnic site.
- Manitoba Glass Works Historical Site: the first glass container factory in Western Canada. and Chryplywy Nature Trails: enjoy native flowers and wildlife from 2 km. of paved trails (62 acre site).
- Pioneer Village Museum: 18 buildings, including the childhood home of former Governor General, Edward Schreyer, 1000s of artifacts of pioneers from Galicia, Volhynia and other countries. Self guided tours.
- SunGro Art Show: Paintings, pottery, photography, literature & textile creations by exceptional Manitoba artists
Bonus Prizes:
- 2 x 9 holes at Beausejour Golf Course
- day pass to Great Woods Blues/Rock/Roots Aug. 7 - 9
- day pass to Pioneer Village Heritage Day Aug. 9
- day pass to Double B Rodeo at CPTC Sept. 5 - 7
Beausejour – home of the only AHS Display Garden on the Canadian Prairies
