Girl Guides of Canada-Alberta

Cemetery Tours (G, P, R)
Free. Offered from May through October. Mounties and ministers, cowboys and cooks, prohibitionists and politicians! Join volunteer tour guides on a walk-through time to learn about the people, personalities and events that shaped the vibrant city Calgary is today.

Calgary Tower (All Ages)
Ride the C-train downtown and then go up the Calgary Tower. Visits now include self-directed, informative multimedia tours. Ask for group admission rates in advance.

Chinese Cultural Centre (B, G, P, R)
Contact them for evening tours and activities.

City Counsellors (G, P. R)
Invite your local City Counsellor to your unit meeting.

CTV Tours (All Ages)
Will give evening tours of their studio in SW Calgary at no charge. Contact Dale Jubb or the main switchboard at 403-240-5600.

Fire Station Tours (S, B)
See and learn about fire fighting equipment. Free. Book through 311 or online.

Food Bank (P, R)
Tour or volunteer at the warehouse where people sort donations, build hampers, and distribute food. Girls must be at least 10 years old to go on tours and 12 years old to volunteer.

Heritage Park Ghost Tours (P, R)
Take a guided tour and listen to spooky stories as you explore some of the most haunted buildings in Calgary. Includes a hot chocolate break at the Burn’s Barn. Tour is 2 hours. Cost $170 for maximum 30 girls.

Historic Walking Tours (G, P, R)
Calgary Ghost Tours will do ghost tours and non-ghost historic tours in Inglewood, downtown and Mount Royal neighborhoods. They can customize tours for private group bookings and different ages.

Humane Society (G, P, R)
Offers presentations on urbanization and wildlife examining what happens when humans and wildlife collide with an emphasis on co-existing with wildlife in urban areas. Content adapted to the age level.

Public Art Walks (G, P, R)
Explore the city by going on a walking tour. Use the city of Calgary website to create a walking tour of public art in various parts of the city. Downtown, the beltline and Inglewood are good neighborhoods to visit. GPSMyCity provides some pre-made walking tours. The Stampede art walk takes you through the most prominent pieces of western art on the Stampede grounds and in downtown Calgary. Combine your walk with a ride on the LRT and the girls love it.

Public Library Visits (S, B)
Pre-book a tour or story time program or simply visit the library on your own. The new downtown library is well worth a visit.

Little Free Libraries (All Ages)
Go on a neighborhood walk and check out all the little free libraries in your neighborhood. You’ll probably find a lot more than are listed on the website. Take a book and leave a book.

Police Officer (All Ages)
Invite your local area community resource officer to your unit meeting.

Ride the C-Train (S, B)
Sparks and Brownies love a simple ride on the C-Train. Ride all the way to the end of the line and back.

Seniors Residences (All Ages)
Contact the activities director of your local seniors residence to arrange a visit. Wonderful to visit at all times of the year. Do simple crafts or puzzles with the residents, colour pictures together, read stories, have girls bring an item from home and do show-and-tell, sing songs (clapping and actions encouraged). Build snow sculptures outdoors where the residents can see them through their windows.

Bow and Elbow River Walking & Audio Tour around Fort Calgary (G, P, R)
The land at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers has been a meaningful place for many peoples since time immemorial. This free, self-guided walking & audio tour shares some of the significance of this place, past and present, to the Blackfoot, Tsuut’ina, and Métis Nations. The tour circles around Fort Calgary. No admission required.

Cree8 Indigenous Workshops (B, G, P, R)
Cree8 aims to create bridges between people, culture and within yourself. Cree8 offers performances, presentations and workshops to share traditional aboriginal culture, crafts and teachings.

Hangar Flight Museum (All Ages)
Learn about western Canada’s aviation history. The museum will leave you inspired with dreams of flight! Can pre-book private guided group tours, as well as workshops on topics such as airplane nose art and aeronautics.

Heritage Minutes (G, P, R)
Collection of about 100 different one-minute videos. Each video depicts a significant person, event or story in Canadian history. Topic areas include pre-confederation, women, arts & culture, heroes, human rights, military, sports, science & innovation, and indigenous history.

Heritage Park - Famous 5 Challenge (B, G)
Learn the names of the Famous 5, their occupations and what they achieved, how it affects girls today, what would have been different in their loves if the ‘persons’ case had not been successful, and what still needs to be done in our world. Workshop is 2 hours long. Cost $170 for maximum 30 participants.

Heritage Park - All About Nellie (B, G)
Who was Nellie McClung? Most of us recognize her as a member of the Famous 5 and a key player in the 1929 “Persons Case”, but there is so much more to her than that. Using the artifacts and information in the exhibit as inspiration, students will create a scrapbooking journal and make Nellie’s work as an author; teacher; activist; politician; wife and mother come alive. Workshop is 2 hours long. Cost $170 for maximum 30 participants.

Law Day Alberta (G, P, R)
Annual free public event held on a Saturday in April at the Calgary Court House downtown. Activities include mock trials such as Cinderella vs. Elsa, courthouse tours, open citizenship courts, ask-a-lawyer, security demonstrations, and many booths and displays.

Many Chief Tours (G, P, R)
Go on a guided walking tour to explore Calgary’s indigenous culture, history and connection to the environment. Tours take place at Princes Island and Nose Hill Park.

The Memory Project (All Ages)
The Memory Project is a volunteer speakers bureau that arranges for veterans and Canadian Forces members to share their stories of military service. All programming is free of charge. While Remembrance Day is their busiest time, they operate year-round. They also offer free learning materials.

Politicians (G, P, R)
Invite a city counsellor, MLA or MP to visit your unit. Bonus if they are female.

Centre for Affordable Water Sanitation and Technology (CAWST) (B, G, P, R)
CAWST will send a speaker to your meeting to teach about water issues around the globe.

Chinese Cultural Centre (B, G, P, R)
Contact them for evening tours and activities.

Hangar Flight Museum (B, G, P, R)
Learn about world history in their Second World War hangar and the military, commercial and civilian planes contained within it. Private tours can be arranged outside normal operating hours.

The Military Museums (B, G, P, R)
Not just for Remembrance Day. Private bookings for 1.5-hour long evening programs year-round. Topics include understanding remembrance, handle artefacts from the Great War to Afghanistan, tours, and more. Cost $10 per child. Two free adults. Additional adults cost $6 per person.

Art Studio: Glenbow Museum

Science Lab: Bricks for Kids

Science Lab: Earth Science for Society