Events this weekend: Model Railway Show on Sunday; Luxton Fall Fair, Friday to Sunday; Navel Reserve centennial event on Saturday
Bend down, cock your head to one side and you might hear the “All Aboard!” announcement by the miniature railroad station master as the rolling stock gets moving at the Victoria Model Railway Show, Sunday at the Mary Winspear Centre.Members will be bringing examples of different scale trains — HO, Lionel O and Garden-scale — with HO making up 65 per cent of hobby trains.
Visitors wanting to add to their collection can buy or swap a large array of new or used model train-related items found on more than 50 tables. The event features chicken agility races, antique farm equipment, blacksmithing and a display on the history of Happy Valley at the Heritage Museum. Parking entrance is now off Sooke Road, across from Ronald Road. The fairgrounds is on B.C. Transit route 55 Happy Valley and cyclists can reach it via the Galloping Goose Trail.
The tradition of granting Freedom of the City to a military unit goes back more than 300 years. Freedom of the City grants a specific military unit the privilege to march through the city with “drums beating, colours flying and bayonets fixed.”