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Canada Day with Scotty

T. rex Discovery Centre

Canada Day with Scotty

T. rex Discovery Centre
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 10:00am - 6:00pm

Canada Day lunch is on us! Stop by at 11:30 a.m. for hot dogs, pop, and H2O. (While supplies last.) We'll be featuring Canadian fossils and show a feature presentation by Mollie Black on Canadian fossils finds from sea to sea at 1:00 p.m. Throughout the day, take part in a scavenger hunt with us and the Eastend Historical Museum. Visit the T.rex Discovery Centre and Eastend Historical Museum, get a stamp from us both, and enter to win a prize package! PLUS:

  • In the Paleo Lab, visitors can discover new micro fossils in the dig stations with hands-on fossil activities for visitors of all ages.
  • Explore the Tylosaurus Exhibit Roughly 10 metres in length, the specimen was discovered in the hills around Lake Diefenbaker near Sask Landing Provincial Park.This species of mosasaur -- Tylosaurus -- lived 72 million years ago in a large inland sea that covered most of Saskatchewan during the late Cretaceous period. They were large, predatory marine reptiles that are closely related to modern monitor lizards and snakes.
  • Explore the beautiful landscape of the Frenchman River Valley on the hiking trails situated around the discovery centre or uncover a new fossil in the Fossil Dig Sand Pit.
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