Atlantic Explorer - PEI, Nova Scotia & Newfoundland
Whether it’s sampling freshly shucked oysters on a fisherman’s wharf or tasting wild blueberry wine in one of the world’s more improbable vineyards, this journey will leave you overwhelmed by the warmth and ingenuity of the Maritime people. (click for full details...)
Coastal Cruising Adventures
Smell the fresh ocean air from the sunny decks of a classic expedition cruise vessel. Take in the natural beauty of the Atlantic coastline. Discover unique East Coast culture in out-of-the-way places in Atlantic Canada. (click for full details...)
Custom Performances and Tours
The College of Piping can offer customized performances in our Main
Hall or our outdoor Amphitheatre on a year-round basis, thanks to the wealth of talent in our faculty and student body. While you’re here, take a guided tour of the world-class facilities. (click for full details...)
Custom Study Packages
The College offers instruction in Highland bagpiping, Scottish-style snare drumming, Highland dancing and step dancing. Curriculums are developed for
adults and youth at all levels of ability, and based on student needs, time frames, etc. (click for full details...)
Generate Better Media Coverage of Your Community Initiative
When should you issue a press release, a media advisory or simply pick up the phone to let media outlets know about your project? This session will introduce you to the various tools you can draw on when you craft your communications plan, with special emphasis on tapping into unpaid advertising opportunities. (click for full details...)
Placemaking: the Art of Building your Community
As an applied anthropologist actively involved in community tourism development projects in Canada and the United States, Great Excursions CEO Claude-Jean Harel provides first hand experience of the conditions required for effective placemaking and of the ways to create the right community environment for it to occur. (click for full details...)
Smart Teambuilding
Great Excursions CEO Claude-Jean Harel will share with participants some of the wisdom of his years of international experience as a television producer, trainer and tourism developer with a view to rural communities. (click for full details...)
Staging the "Lived Reportage"
Through photographic documentation of "behind the scene" tourism experiences staged at Great Excursions, this session will demonstrate how the "lived reportage" approach can help generate new tourism products and unpaid advertizing opportunities. (click for full details...)
The Archaeological Field Trips at School Series
At a time when many prairie communities are struggling with issues of sustainability, it is useful to take a fresh look at their beginnings as innovative systems of settlement – systems well adapted to the prevailing environmental, economic and social realities of the day. (click for full details...)
The College of Piping's Celtic Festival
The College of Piping is pleased to present a summer-long Celtic Festival featuring a Highland Gathering kick-off event, night-time ceilidhs (kay-lee) with the Come to the Ceilidh Evening Concerts, daytime mini-concerts and tours and a gala performance in September. (click for full details...)
Understanding the Railway Town
Railway towns were conceived as service points for the needs of Canada’s first industrial-era transportation network, but the way they were designed holds much more meaning than appears at first glance. (click for full details...)
