Events

This year, the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club’s 13th Annual Hike Festival will feature hikes around the Bruce Trial in Tobermory and a variety of seminars, including a talk by Peter Russell. The Earth Sciences Museum is showing two displays at this event; vibrantly coloured mineral samples, and Burgess Shale fossils. 

Peter Russell's talk Hiking the Red Rocks of Arizona will be at 7pm on September 30th, and our mineral displays will be available to view Friday though Saturday at the National Parks Visitors Centre in Tobermory. 

The London Gem & Mineral Show will have vendors selling minerals, fossils, and jewellery. In addition, the event will host seminars and workshops about earth science and jewellery making. 

The Earth Sciences Museum will be providing hands-on educational activities for kids at this event on Saturday November 19th and Sunday November 20th. 

Explore Earth Science in the Waterloo region on this 1.5 hour walk. We will see building stones, fossils, erratics and more. Dress for the weather, and wear your walking shoes!  

Find out more at www.janeswalk.org/canada/waterloo-on/

Explore Earth Science in the Waterloo region on this 1.5 hour walk. We will see building stones, fossils, erratics and more. Dress for the weather, and wear your walking shoes!  

Find out more at www.janeswalk.org/canada/waterloo-on/

Join Peter Russell and Corina McDonald from the University of Waterloo's Earth Sciences Museum for a short walk around Maryhill. Drumlins, eskers, moraines and till! Learn about these and more interesting and useful glacial features. Meet at the Maryhill Heritage Park Community Centre.

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