Assistant Curator/Tour Guide
- Program stream:
- Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations
- Job title:
- Assistant Curator/Tour Guide
- Organization name:
- Avonlea Museum
- Job location:
- Avonlea, Saskatchewan
- Length of assignment:
- 2017-05-15 to 2017-08-04 (12 weeks)
- Hourly wage:
- $12.22
YCW Program: Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations
Position Title:
English: Assistant Curator/Tour Guide
French: Assistant Curator/Tour Guide
Organization:
English: Avonlea Heritage House Museum Inc.
French: Avonlea Heritage House Museum Inc.
Location:
City / Town / Village: Avonlea
Province / Territory: Saskatchewan
Month(s) Worked: May to August
Length of Assignment: 12 weeks
Salary per hour: $ 11.50
Short Description:
English: Museum Job Opportunity
Avonlea Heritage Museum
PO Box 401 Avonlea, SK S0H0C0
Assistant Curator / Tour Guide
Date of Employment: May 8 – Aug 25, 2017
16 - 5 day weeks, 6 hours a day
Starting wage $12.22/hr
Continuing University or High School Student Grade IX certificate
Must meet YCW requirements
Avonlea Heritage Museum is open 7 days a week from 10am -5pm, May 1 - August 31. Our museum is housed in three separate buildings. The first, the original CNR Station, houses CNR artifacts, a pioneer kitchen, a bedroom, a child’s room, a telephone office, a one roomed school, a RCMP station, sports hall of fame, and a Legion display with pictures and stories of residents that have served in the armed forces. The second, a 50x100 ft steel building, contains a Main Street depicting typical business from Avonlea’s early days, and agricultural equipment. This building also contains our first class mural depicting four eras in the history of the plains from dinosaurs to First Nations done by local resident Paul Gerahty. Paul has done work for the Royal Saskatchewan Museum and museums in Ontario. Our third building is an Anglican church that preserves the religious history of the area.
Characteristics of City/Region
Avonlea Heritage Museum is located in the thriving village of Avonlea in the midst of a mixed farming/ranching area. There are excellent paved highways from Regina, Moose Jaw and Weyburn, all just an hour or less away. Home to one of Saskatchewan’s best 18 hole golf courses, complete with club house and banquet/restaurant and a natural treed Regional park that pops out of nowhere complete with over 200 campsites, a heated pool, concession and a dam with reservoir for recreation, and a artificial hockey and curling facility, located only 10 minutes away is the Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site. Avonlea area has something for everyone. Avonlea offers many services including service station/convenience/liquor store, a hotel, restaurant and bar, grocery store, post office, two banks, school from K to 12, library, 3 churches, 28-bed senior home, low cost housing. Other businesses include GM dealership, John Deer dealership, a Pulse Processing plant, Fenugreek processing plant, insurance agent, and electrician.
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