A special Heritage Day will be held at the historic Claybank Brick Plant.
The Heritage Day is set for Sunday, June 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The entrance free is $10 per person or $25 per family. Ages six years and under get in for free.
The Heritage Day will include narrated self-guided tours, showing how bricks were made.
Historical machinery will be operating throughout the day, grinding clay and pressing bricks.
There will also be hay rides to the Massold Clay Canyons, Lil’Jigger railway rides, and hands-on and static demonstrations on blacksmithing, bricklaying and rope making.
Children’s activities during the Heritage Day will include face painting and a clown. There will also be musical entertainment offered, food concessions and homemade bakery items.
The bakery will offer fresh cinnamon buns, brick oven bread, Saskatoon berry pie and fresh Italian-style pizza from the outdoor oven.
The Claybank Brick Plant remains frozen in time, virtually unchanged from the day it opened in 1914. Brick manufactured at the plant graces the facades of many prestigious buildings across Saskatchewan as well as many other provinces.
Face brick was produced until the 1960’s, and adorns such prominent buildings as the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. Among many others, the beautiful Gravelbourg Cathedral is faced entirely of Claybank brick as are a number of Court Houses and other public buildings.
