Pioneer Days back in full form at Sunnybrook Farm Museum
The annual fixture known as Pioneer Days is going on today (Aug. 21) and Sunday at Sunnybrook Farm Museum in south Red Deer.
The long-running event, which is open from 8-4 each day, is sticking with tradition coming out of the pandemic, with the Pioneer breakfast, tractor pulls, threshing, homemade pies, animals, silent auction and much more.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t evolving, says Executive Director Ian Warwick.
“What we’re celebrating is the original homestead of James and Catherine Bower who moved here in 1899. We’re trying to showcase the hardships and difficulties pioneers experienced, and the investment it took to get clothing and food back before electricity, and when life was a bit different,” says Warwick.