What a tremendous day on our terrific
Tuesday at Beneras Historic House!!!
Beneras Historic House:
With more than 165 years of history,
this exquisite Georgian style estate was home to four generations of the Harris
and Sayers families. Noted for its quiet presence in a picturesque park-like
setting - Benares is filled top to bottom with original family possessions
spanning 4 generations. Part of what makes Benares so unique is that more than
95% of the artifacts in the house are original to the Harris family and this
home. Benares and most of its contents were donated by the three great
grandchildren of Captain Harris -- Geoffrey Harris Sayers, Dora Sayers Caro and
Barbara Sayers Larson. It was restored and fully furnished with Harris Family
items and opened to the public as Mississauga's newest museum in 1995.
We began the day visiting the Harris family
home and baking a cookie using the recipe that would have been used by the
Harris family at Christmas time 100 years ago!!!!!!
We then made a Christmas cracker very similar
to those made or bought around the holiday season 100 years ago!!!
Next we took a tour of the Harris home to
get an inside look about how Christmas would have been celebrated during the Victorian period!!! We also played some games that the Harris family would have played during the holiday season!!
After we ate lunch, we took part in various
activities where we learned about many winter traditions from around the world:
Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, the Winter Solstice, Las
Posadas and Chinese New Year!!!!
At the end of our trip, we sat down around
a ‘camp fire’ used to celebrate the winter solstice and we ate our cookie and
drank some warm apple cider!!!
What a fun day of learning!!
More pictures to come!!!
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