It’s 1862. You are hand-digging through layers of soggy, worthless, frustrating gravel, hoping and praying the next shovel-stroke will expose a fortune in gold. Everyone says it’s crazy, but there’s too much at stake. Then, just when the outcome seems impossibly bleak, at a depth of 52 feet the ground read more
Museums and Heritage Sites
At the Bowen Island Community Museum you will discover Higgens Cabin, a 1948 period logger’s cabin with tools and period rooms. At the Canadian Museum of Flight you’ll find over 25 civilian and military jets, gliders, and helicopters. Victoria’s Craigdarroch Castle welcomes you inside a Victorian-era mansion. And at Fort St. James National Historic Site you’ll travel back in history inside a restored Hudson’s Bay Company post with 1896 living history guides all summer long.
Welcome to British Columbia’s museums and heritage sites. Historic telephones, arts and crafts, regional sports history, and natural history and much more await.
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Alberni Pacific Railway
Board the steam train pulled by our fully restored 1929 Baldwin locomotive at the E&N Train Station and ride out to the McLean Steam Sawmill – a National Historic Site. The track winds through the City of Port Alberni and into the surrounding forests for 35 minutes each way. Photo read more
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Audain Art Museum
The Audain Art Museum is anchored by the important collection donated by Michael Audain and his wife Yoshiko Karasawa. The collection includes centuries-old Northwest Coast works, two dozen fine Emily Carr works and works by the internationally renowned Vancouver photo-conceptualists of our era. The permanent collection is housed in gallery read more
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Britannia Mine Museum
Britannia Mine Museum opens up a little-seen world that fascinates all ages. Just like miners did, visitors climb aboard a train and rumble into an underground tunnel. Let our quick-witted and knowledgeable tour guides usher you to years gone by. It’s a ride that introduces the joys, noise and stories read more
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Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site
Britannia Shipyards is an authentic representation of a once thriving community of canneries, boat yards, residences and stores. City of Richmond staff and dedicated volunteers work together to preserve and restore the shipyard and surrounding buildings as an active wooden boat centre and waterfront park. Tour the oldest shipyard buildings in British Columbia, read more
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Bulkley Valley Museum
The Bulkley Valley Museum has been in operation since 1967. We are located in the heart of the Town of Smithers, British Columbia at the corner of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) and Main Street in the historic Central Park Building. Admission is by donation. The Museum is fully accessible, has read more