This Labor Day weekend the annual Marshville Heritage Festival will be held in Wainfleet, Ontario, on the grounds operated by the Marshville Heritage Society next to the Wainfleet Arena at 31943 Park Street.
The Festival features attractions including a classic car display, old tractors and other farm implements, and an old sawmill. Up until 2022 this mill was steam powered, but a lack of a licensed boiler operator who has the time to get the steam plant up and running from a year’s disuse means it will probably be powered by an electric or gas motor instead. There are also demonstrations of other crafts such as weaving and candy-making, musical entertainment, plenty of kids’ activities, and lots of food.
The attractions include the print shop featuring a working Whitlock newspaper press operated by the Mackenzie Printery and Newspaper Museum. The Printery will also be operating a Ludlow Typograph to cast single lines of type for visitors, and will offer various printing-related items including old cuts, typecases, and printed ephemera in trade for donations to the museum. A small Adana tabletop press will be set up so visitors can print their own keepsake bookmark, and our year-at-a-glance calendars (printed on the Whitlock) will also be available.
The fair is open 10-5 each day and admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors, free for children under 10, with plenty of free parking (enter off Side Road 20).
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