Celebrating North Cowichan’s 150th Anniversary through Artists, Past and Present To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Municipality of North Cowichan on June 18, 1873, the Cowichan Valley Museum in the former Duncan Train Station on Canada Avenue in Duncan, BC is showcasing its own, and some loaned, artwork of local artists, […]
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The Cowichan Valley Museum is located inside the Duncan Train Station is featuring the travelling exhibition, Broken Promises from the Nikkei Museum in Vancouver. In 1942, the Government of Canada detained and interned some 21,000 people of Japanese descent living in British Columbia. Within a year, the government authorized the sale of their belongings, leaving Japanese Canadians with […]
Experience Chinatown through a self-guided tour. https://www.heritagecalgary.ca/heritage-calgary-blog/chinatown DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE WALKING TOUR
As a major transportation hub and port city, many sectors of Montreal’s economy were once intertwined with the sex trade, even as police and politicians manipulated social responses to the presence of a thriving Red Light District. From Maimie Pinzer to Harry Ship and through to the present day, this tour explores the social, economic, […]
Join us for the newest temporary exhibit in Gasoline Alley Museum, Prairie Persuasion: Communication and Propaganda in Southern Alberta! Propaganda was everywhere in southern Alberta, beginning in the 1860s. It brought settlers and tourists to the province, helped form community groups, enlisted troops for war efforts and opened doors for fake remedies and advertisements. There […]
Bring your pictures from the past to share and talk about.
See displays of items people like to collect. Bring your own collection along for others to see and talk about.
Clothing from Amos Seaman house and other contributions. Bring along something if you want to show it.
Tip toe through the candlelit corridors of the Smiths Falls Heritage House Museum as a costumed interpreter leads you through tales of local ghost sightings, oral traditions and mysterious happenings of the Smiths Falls area and the museum. Each story has been discreetly shared by local residents, carefully selected from local news articles or experienced […]