What is a Children's
Safety Village?

Mackenzie Safety & Heritage Village will provide children with an experience that they won't soon forget as they practice safety rules in a child-sized environment built for them.

At the Safety Village, children at the Kindergarten to grade 4 level will be given a chance to practice safety skills in a specially designed small village atmosphere featuring streets, sidewalks, buildings, traffic lights, railway crossings, bus shelters, a school bus, a hydro generator, a 9-1-1 emergency phone setup, and classrooms designed to teach road and fire safety skills.

Through hands-on training, children will develop a positive attitude toward safety. Children will be taught their safety lessons in a classroom setting and then practice them in the Safety Village under supervision of police and fire officers and volunteers.

Areas of safety will include safety on the street, bicycle safety, car safety, street proofing, hydro safety, 911 phone awareness, drug awareness, fire safety, water safety, farm safety, and other areas of safety as identified.

Mackenzie Safety & Heritage Village will provide a place for children to learn safety among child-sized scale structures designed to create a visual record of a Lambton of the past; of the places where the men and women who settled and built the communities of Lambton County lived, worked, and enjoyed themselves; of our heritage along the blue waters of the St. Clair River and Lake Huron; and of the land transportation used to get around Lambton.

Mackenzie Safety & Heritage Village will provide a venue to encourage our young people to become more aware of Lambton's rich history and of the men and women who settled and built the communities of Lambton by including structures reflecting our oil heritage, life along the blue waters of lake Huron and the St Clair, shipping and ship-building, railways and transportation, life at home, churches and schools, entertainment, life at work, the Sarnia street railway, the county building and other buildings built by Alexander Mackenzie.