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: $12/person (up to 5 people); or $75/group (up to 10 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: TBA
Ghost Tours
The Diefenbaker Canada Centre is calling all ghouls and goblins to join us on a spooktacular tour of the University of Saskatchewan campus. Experience some of the university's gothic-inspired architecture, learn about its history, and catch up on a few ghost tales.
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.
2023 Tour Information
Children's Spooky Tour and Scavenger Hunt: Saturday, October 28 and Monday, October 30
$10 (+tax) per person
Campus Ghost Tours: Monday, October 23 through Tuesday, October 31.
$15 (+tax) per person
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: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Saturday April 13, 2024: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Cost: $15.00 (+tax) per person