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Re-enactors step back in time at Fort Willow (40 photos)

Hundreds of people enjoy a beautiful day outdoors at the annual Festival at Fort Willow in Springwater Township

The Festival at Fort Willow was held Saturday at the conservation area in Springwater Township, just outside Barrie.

As historical re-enactors dressed in period regalia walked the grounds, hundreds of visitors had a chance to experience what life was like pre-European contact, during the fur trade and the War of 1812.

Visitors could make candles, find out what items were traded between Indigenous peoples and Europeans, experience first-hand how sailors work on ships, see how food was made by settlers, watch live wood-carving demonstrations, chat with the Barrie Garden Club about the Three Sisters Indigenous gardening practices, muster up and march in the King’s army and listen to the cannons roar.