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Statement of Purpose


Fall at Black Creek Pioner Village

Black Creek Pioneer Village, located in the City of Toronto and in the City of Vaughan, Regional Municipality of York, is owned and operated by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. Black Creek Pioneer Village has been created as a living history museum for the purpose of preserving for present and future generations, the contributions made by the mid-nineteenth century inhabitants of South Central Ontario that have influenced the way of life in South Central Ontario and are an important part of Canadian heritage. Black Creek Pioneer Village will collect, preserve, research, house, exhibit, and interpret those objects that help to provide a graphic representation of early Ontario life.

Black Creek Pioneer Village is an educational heritage institution illustrating through the medium of its buildings, collections, information, interpreters, livestock, exhibitions and landscape, life in a rural crossroads village in South Central Ontario in the third quarter of the nineteenth century.

Black Creek Pioneer Village will create a vibrant, entertaining environment for the preservation and presentation of Ontario history through a variety of activities, demonstrations and interpretive techniques. Further, special programs and events will be organized by the Village staff, and by special interest groups through and with the approval of the Village staff, to supplement daily activities and involve the community in the museum.

Black Creek Pioneer Village will, in all it's programs, see itself as belonging to all, as a benefit to all, and to be enjoyed by all, who are interested in mid-nineteenth century Ontario social history.