Category: Blog
Dinosaurs of BC
February 3, 2025
Opens February 8. Dinosaurs of BC, a travelling exhibit produced by the Royal BC Museum, runs February 8 to June 2 at the Museum at ...
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Living Legacy Project Workshop: Conducting respectful research
January 25, 2025
Register for Workshop – $55 Celia Haig-Brown, Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto, will lead this workshop for those interested in ...
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Fish On! 100 Years of the Tyee Club
June 25, 2024
For 100 years, anglers have been gathering from July to September off the shores of Campbell River in the hopes of catching a Tyee, a ...
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History on the Water Boat Tours
May 29, 2024
With summer just around the corner, the Museum at Campbell River and Campbell River Whale Watching and Adventure Tours are partnering to offer boat tours ...
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Extraordinary Quilts that Bridged Nations in World War II
October 31, 2023
If objects could talk, this quilt would have an extraordinary tale, traveling thousands of kilometers to bring warmth to families in need. Our part of ...
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How Does Your Garden Grow
September 28, 2023
The earliest written accounts of life on the coast, from the late 1700s, often refer to this area as being an “untamed wilderness.” The coast ...
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1916 Empire Steam Donkey at the Museum
August 29, 2023
It’s an interesting story of how the Empire Steam Donkey came to the Museum. Manufactured in Vancouver in 1916, it was originally owned by P.B. ...
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April 5, 1958 – Ripple Rock Explosion
April 5, 2023
"Old Rip" had menaced shipping for centuries claiming hundreds of lives...on April 5, 1958, the world's largest non-nuclear peacetime explosion pulled Ripple Rock's teeth forever.
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The Bee Hive Café – Serving Ice Cream and Scuttlebutt for over 70 years
October 13, 2022
“If you wanted to get the latest scuttlebutt, then you went over to the Bee Hive about coffee time” explained Mr. Waldref, who had a ...
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Re-Naming British Columbia
July 21, 2022
In continuing our series exploring local place names, we wanted to take a closer look at the history of the name “British Columbia” in time ...
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