Elora District High School - Undique Yearbook (Elora, Ontario Canada)

Page 31 text:

.lil . -. AN, i' f - 'A Trip to the Museum Honny Archibald dihnggn LHXQF eva ' .W ' ' ' onto trip ff :.- v V ' chwtter A '-1 ' f 1 - atbright-sunny Saturday morning as I pulled my carcass out to be on time for the bus, which was leaving for Torontoo 8'l'fhalf open I wearily crawled down the stairs for breakfast. V98 little lunch l half walked and half ran to keep up to the -As we left for'Toronto, the girls lwho were all out of tune! the Parliament Buildings but to sing some songs. we first saw , -were closedo Next, we went to the Royal Ontario Museum where we different exhibits of great interest to some of us. We saw exhibits d also Gitlinv Bull's original costume. Also in the of Indians an G . Indian section, we saw the skull of a diseased man and the skull of a man Kwhich the girls did not likelo Next there was an Egyptian 'which was well preserved. A Chinese tomb of stone attracted te a few. 'In the old arms room, we saw many different guns and cross iwhich were of great interest to the boyso They also had a room h it 1 f Canadian animals and another of foreign animals and was ful o We then saw the prehistoric room which held ancient dinosaursa h e saw a number of 0 in-the afternoon we visited the zoo w ere w d d animals They had gorillas, orangetaans, snakes, hir s an 'of different sizes and shapes. They also had bears, mountain goats, buf lar bears and penquins. Next we visited Casa Loma with all -. 'a 9.7. ng 4 falo, po ' d et tunnels. We got some souvenirs ther and then s towers an secr headed for Malton Airport and after watching a few planes, ate our -and than we struck out for homeo K, 1. 1 Eno 1. L I. pdf 11 , ,.., l'.'1'2 1 - U !. .3 ,gnu 1

Page 33 text:

while. T went WI' . 4 TRIP 'ro 'ram MUSEUM . ,J , . . 1 E r,a1moSt three weeks our science teacher had been talking about o on a trip to the museum in Toronto. Finally, we decided that we charter a bus from Guelph for our transportation. We left at a after seven Saturday morning. K-ak v ' weather couldn't have been better for our trip although it was -chilly. The bus soon took us out of Elora, through Fergus ore we knew it we were in the outskirts of Toronto. We had just the nine o'clock rush and the Museum did'nt open until ten ' ' ' l k d - nd We stopped beside the Parliament Buildings and oo e arou he time soon passed and it was ten o'clock -Q time to go to the I lick to Tet in on a Saturday without a chargeo when he were u y g in we were all in a group but within five minutes we were ' 'h re scattered to the numerous sections of the Museumo e everything in the museum from small, ancient models of horses with riders to huge, prehistoric skeletons of dinosaurso To see every t hl ou would take a much longer time than our schedule horoug y y us to. We are our lunch at the museum and then decided to go the Zooo y We drove to the Zoo and watched the camels and kangaroos on the There were all kinds of monkeys to be seen and even a pair of ins In other cages jungle-roving animals like the lion, the tiger a few others were jumping about. There must have been every kind bird you could think of and moree There were polar bears and The girls were determined to go to Casa Loma so we had to Casa Loma is a large castle built in the l92O's. The woodwork is all hand carved and it looks beautifulo We went to the tower and 'through a long tunnel to the stable. A! Since not many of us had been to the airport, we decided to go W went on an observatory and watched some planes land and t ers. e f ' t' restaurant and had a snabk after take off. he went into the airpor s whichpwe went back to the bus to return to Elora. iwThe bus was not such a centre of talking and singing coming home it west oing to Toronto. We arrived back in Elora around eight E cloekgaaiwmryone dragged off the bus either sorry or glad to see the mdPt ed mdps -As for me,.I.knew that this was one trip I would'nt fhmmaudons Dimes A 'Q s T? Mr, sous QQH ' 1 . ' ' 4 - Leonard Carey. u