Historical Campus Tours
Historical walking tours are available throughout the year for school and community groups as well as individuals and families.
In this walking tour, your DCC guide will highlight the university’s history, important achievements, and unique architecture. Stops along the tour include the Airplane Room, Natural Sciences Museum, the Peter McKinnon Building, the Museum of Antiquities, Voyageur Place, and the Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre.
These tours are a great way to get students interested in and familiar with the university, inspire future university students, and help familiarize newcomers to Saskatchewan with this important landmark.
Dates Offered: Year-round
Tour Length: 1.5 hours
Cost: $15+tax per person; or $90+tax per group (up to 25 people)
Gallery Tours
Gallery tours are available throughout the year for school and community groups as well as individuals and families.
Tour options include the permanent One Canada Tour or the current Temporary Exhibit Tour.
Dates Offered: Year-round
Tour Length: 30, 60 or 90 minutes
Cost: 30 min $60.00, 60 min $75.00, 90 min $90.00
Ghost Tours
For a university student, it’s hard to imagine anything scarier than hours of homework or late-night cramming for exams. But what if you found yourself face to face with a USask ghost!? Established in 1907, The University of Saskatchewan campus represents more than 100 years of incredible history, demonstrated through unique architecture, academic excellence in teaching, world class research and of course, personal accounts of strange sightings, eerie feelings and unexplainable events…
This October, join the Diefenbaker Canada Centre on a guided walking ghost tour to learn about the most haunted buildings on campus and some of the sinister tales of misfortune that befell the community of restless spirits who roam the university late at night and play tricks on the unsuspecting. Come dressed in your Halloween best and be ready for some unearthly fun as you experience the university like never before!
Disclaimer: As part of the Diefenbaker Canada Centre's Ghost Tours, the guides take guests to various sites around campus that are believed—according to urban legend—to be haunted by spirits. As part of the tour, the guides also tell ghost stories that may not be suitable for children under the age of 12. Anyone under the age of 12 will be required to have a parental waiver signed prior to the tour commencement.
2024 Tour Information
- Campus Ghost Tours: Thursday, October 24 through Friday, November 1.
- $15 (+tax) per person
- Private Group Tours: Interested in booking a private tour for a spooky night out?
- $250 (+tax) 1-15 people
- $375 (+tax) 16-30 people
- Please contact the DCC for booking information dief.centre@usask.ca or (306) 866-8384
Children's Spooky Tour and Scavenger Hunt
Are you looking for a family friendly Halloween event that includes an evening of chills and thrills? Join the Diefenbaker Canada Centre on a nighttime walking tour of the University to learn about some of the ghosts that haunt the campus and pranks on students to make sure they finish their homework! Following the tour, guests will visit the Diefenbaker Exhibit Gallery to play a spooktacular game of Halloween I spy that is sure to include a few tricks and treats! Costumes are highly recommended!
Walking Tours are approximately 30-40 minutes in length, starting and ending at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre. On site washrooms will be available for use at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre, however food and drink are not permitted inside the museum gallery. Guests are reminded to dress for the weather as the majority of the tour will be conducted outdoors.
Please Note: A minimum of 5 people is required per tour. If less than 5 people are registered, tours will be cancelled and tickets fully refunded.
2024 Tour Information
- Children's Spooky Tour and Scavenger Hunt: Friday, October 25 (7:00-8:30pm) and Saturday, October 26 (4:30 to 6:00pm)
- $10 (+tax) per person (under 2 are free)
Great War Tour
On July 28, 1914, a global war commenced, lasting longer than anyone anticipated, creating devastating loss and destruction. At this time, the University of Saskatchewan was only a few years old and had yet to acquire a significant voice and population, leaving the Great War to heavily impact the process of growth and partially shape the institution that it would become.
350 University of Saskatchewan students, staff, and faculty went overseas to join the war effort. Many of these people had significant roles in leading and raising battalions, running education programs for soldiers, and earning medals of valor in defining moments of battle. Back home, groundbreaking research was taking place, soldiers were being supported, and the university experienced a significant gender imbalance that allowed women to gain a voice.
This Year marks the 107th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. This was thought of as a defining moment in Canadian history as all four Canadian corps fought together on their own for the first time and claimed victory; the only allied victory of 1917. On Friday April 12 and Saturday April 13th, join the Diefenbaker Canada Centre on an outdoor, 90 minute walking tour of campus to learn more about the significant role the university played overseas and on the Homefront through highlighted students and staff stories, campus memorials, and historic building stops.
Disclaimer: This is an extensive outdoor walking tour that will take approximately 90 minutes. Please dress for the weather and wear appropriate footwear. There will be opportunities to stop inside buildings, but most of the tour is outside. This tour discusses the impact of the war on campus and will discuss loss and destruction to some degree, which may not be suitable for younger audiences.
2024 Tour Information
- Friday April 12, 2024 at 12:00 - 1:30pm
- Saturday April 13, 2024 at 12:00 - 1:30pm
Cost: $15 (+tax) per person