2025 IN REVIEW

Photo: Hungry Hollow fossil trip in 2025 with the Chatham/Kent homeschooling group

MUSEUM EVENTS

Photo: Indoor fossil hunt

It's open house time again at the “Creation Research Museum of Ontario” in Goodwood, Ontario on
Saturday, June the 6th, 2026 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Day activities include...
-Fossil hunting. Learn about different types of fossils and the evidence for a quick burial.
-The “Rock Pile Dig” where you can collect a bucket of fossils and minerals to take home.
The beauty in minerals and crystals has always defied the theory of evolution.
-Tour the museum for free! Participate in the self tour quiz and get a chance to win
a fabulous local fossil in the draw.
-Creation resources, t-shirts, fossils and minerals available for purchase at the rock store.
-Free gift bag with creation materials, while they last.
-Visit the hands-on activity tables.

For more info click button below.

OPEN HOUSE 2026

Come on a Spring, Summer, or Fall 2026 public fossil trip with Martin
Legemaate, Curator of The Creation Research Museum of Ontario

Photo: Kawartha Lakes fossil dig in 2018

Spring
Kawartha Lakes trip: Saturday, June 13th 2026.
Contact Curator Martin Legemaate: [email protected]
Dates and times may change due to quarry operations.

Photo: Hungry Hollow fossil trip in 2025

Summer
July 18th, 2026 Arkona/Hungry Hollow fossil trip.

Contact Curator Martin Legemaate: [email protected]

AND NEW THIS YEAR

Photo: Collecting minerals in Bancroft 2023

Photo: Biotite mica in nepheline

Summer

Mineral collecting field trip to the Haliburton and Bancroft area. Saturday August the15th, 2026.

Photo: Niagara Gorge field trip in 2024

Fall
Niagara Gorge Field Trip Saturday September the 19th, 2026

Click button for more info on all fossil and mineral trips.

MORE INFO

Contact Curator Martin Legemaate: [email protected]

2025 IN REVIEW

MAY

ARKONA/HUNGRY HOLLOW

With the first public fossil trip to Arkona/Hungry Hollow coming up in Summer Laura and I wanted to do a little scouting around the area ahead if time to fine tune the trip. The last time I visited the area was in 2011 so I really had to re-familiarize myself with the sites.

Still closed for the season this museum In Rock Glen Conservation area houses local fossils will be the first stop on the July trip.

Rock Glen Falls.

On to site 2 in the little town of Hungry Hollow.

Pointing to a tabulate coral (species goldfussi).

At the bottom of Rock Glen Falls is a great shale exposure of the Hamilton Formation. Perfect for collecting.

Quickly found were several Horn and Rugose coral specimens and several Mucrospirifer brachiopods. Since only one specimen per person can be collected here in the park participants will have to choose wisely. Not to worry though, site 2 is an all you can collect area.