Blog & News

The Chinese Canadian Museum in Victoria has officially launched their new exhibit, "Victoria in the Time of Exclusion." Learn more about Chinese people who lived in Victoria during the dismal exclusion years (1923-1947) through surviving C.I. certificates.

This exhibit is an extension of the Museum's inaugural "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act" exhibition.

Learn more here.

Parks Canada is planning the future of Fort Langley National Historic Site, and are seeking the public's input.

Share your thoughts on the visions and strategies gathered for the new Fort Langley NHS Management Plan by taking their survey. 

Survey available until July 23rd, 2024.

Registration is now open for the BC Museums Association's annual conference.

The conference will be held in Prince George from September 23rd to 27th. Registration is open to Emerging/Underemployed Professionals, BCMA Members, and Non-Members.

Learn more about the conference and register here.

From July 10th, 2024 to February 2nd, 2025 the SLCC will be hosting the touring exhibit "Chief Dan George - Actor and Activist" created by MONOVA.

The exhibit explores the life and legacy of Tsleil-Waututh Chief Dan George, including his influence as a First Nations rights advocate and his career as an actor.

Learn more about the exhibit here.

The Princeton Museum has launched its Highway 3 Museum Tour guidebook in time for summer adventures! Discover 19 heritage sites and other partner institutions along Highway 3 and learn more about the history of the region.

Learn more here.

The "Stories Beneath The Surface" exhibit at Revelstoke Museum & Archives opened in 2018, telling the stories of the land lost beneath the waters of the Hugh Keenleyside Dam reservoir. Now everyone can experience these stories and more thanks to the new virtual exhibit, produced by the Revelstoke Museum & Archives in partnership with Digital Museums Canada.

The online exhibit features new content, from photos to oral histories, and makes the content available in both French and English.

You can access the exhibit here.

On June 23, the City of Victoria, with Doug's family, unveiled the commemorative "Doug Hudlin Memorial Way" sign on Higgins Street, just across from National Little League Park.

Doug worked for the City of Victoria but his love was being on the field as an umpire. Amongst many other achievements, he umpired the Canadian Little League Championships five times the Senior Little League World Series twice, and the BC Summer Games in 1988. He was a founder and served as first president of the BC Baseball Umpires Association from 1974 to 1979, and was inducted into the association's hall of fame in 2011. He is remembered for his empathy toward all the young players he umpired for spanning generations of baseball players.

Doug was also a founding director of the BC Black History Awareness Society (BCBHAS). As the great-grandson of the earliest Black settlers in BC (Nancy and Charles Alexander), his family's history inspired his work.

You can read more here.

A 550- year old fish trap panel is on display at Vancouver Island University's Deep Bay Marine Field Station.

This is one of the largest and most complete examples of Pentlatch ingenuity. The significant cultural belonging was unearthed by the K’ómoks First Nation and archaeological collaborators and is on public display at the field station in Bowser for the next six months.

Read more here.

When the Kootenay Lake ferry MV Anscomb was remodeled in 1972, after 25 years of faithful service, a few reminders of the old ferry managed to survive, the most impressive of which was her wooden wheelhouse and the captain’s quarters.

Acquired by a Balfour resident, it was taken ashore and for three decades used as a playhouse, chicken coop and storage shed. In 2008, the Balfour and District Business and Historical Association acquired it for $1. 

Thanks to a highly successful fund raising campaign, corporate donations, grants and hundreds of hours of painstaking work by volunteers, this unique and historically significant project was painstakingly restored. It was unveiled to the public at the Balfour ferry terminal on June 13, 2013.

The wheelhouse occupied its rightful spot at the landing’s rest area from that time until September 2019, when it was removed on the request of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure so that service work could begin on upgrading the ferry terminal.

The Balfour and District Business and Historical Association has now announced the historic wheelhouse will be returning to the Balfour ferry terminal in early July. Tourists are encouraged to visit the historic wooden structure, explore inside and read about the ship’s history on storyboards. During the summer, the association will be hosting a “wheelhouse interpreter” on site to answer questions about the wheelhouse and the Balfour area.

A new book, A Social History of the South Okanagan 1920-50, by Robert and Patricia Malcolmson, is described as "A lively and colourful historical portrait of life in the South Okanagan, from Skaha Lake to Lake Osoyoos, including irrigating the arid landscape, early farm settlement, fruit-growing, rum-running, schooling, labour unions, racism, and the Osoyoos Indian Band." 

It's available for purchase from the Osoyoos Museum and the Oliver Archives.