Self Guided Tour Fort Henry: Opening Day 2020

We celebrated Canada Day with a visit to opening day at Fort Henry. With the changes needed for COVID19 the close order drills and tour guide lead tours are not available this season. You can still do a self guided tour of Fort Henry and interact with multiple soldiers and their wives from 1867.

When you arrive you get a nice little folding map that shows you a route you can take around the fort. As you follow the map you will encounter a variety of soldiers and their wives who explain the history of the fort and show and tell you about the lives of the soldiers and their families back in 1867. Each character is physically separated from the guests but you can still easily interact with them. Inside the confines of the fort rooms everyone is expected to wear a mask.

Self Guided Tour of Fort Henry

The self guided tour of Fort Henry map

Once you are done with the self guided tour you can explore the ramparts and enjoy the views of Kingston and the lake.

The fort is much quieter than usual but they still fire a cannon at noon and the Drum Major was paying a fife. Even with the reduced program we still learned new things and enjoyed ourselves.

Enjoy these picture of our self guided tour of Fort Henry.

Visit Fort Henry: Summer of 2019
A night out to Lumina Borealis at Fort Henry

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