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We’ve got a Whale of a Tale for our next Talk & Tea!
Retired DFO Fisheries Officer Lyle Freeman, will speak on
the history of commercial whaling on BC coast, being the last
to oversee this activity in Canada.
Lyle is an award-winning BC author, and over a multi-decade career with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO),
he served across numerous coastal regions in BC,before profiling his extensive field experiences into outdoor literature.
Throughout his career, he routinely faced the complex realities of West Coast resource protection, ranging from navigating delicate political interests to managing unlicensed poaching networks.
Join us at the Log Cabin Museum on October 25th, from 2-4pm.
Admission is $10 cash at the door, with tea and treats
served after the talk.
Talk & Tea
The next Talk & Tea will be held on Sunday, October 25th. Presentations are 2-4pm in the Museum. $10 cash at the door includes tea and light treats after the talk.
Coming up:
We're open on Wednesday, October 14th for #AskAnArchivist Day! From 930am to 230pm, ask your burning archives questions: in-person, by e-mail, or on-line. We'll be posting the questions and answers across our social channels, so stay tuned!
On Now:
Small But MIGHTY - a curated exhibit of diorama and models of buildings and areas of the Saanich Peninsula.
New Permanent Exhibit: Children's Display
Current: Dairy Month
Family Corner: Brethour Family
Days, Months, & Events We Celebrate
Significant days in history or locally, are cause for recognition and celebration. Some we mark by an exhibit or display, others we post about on social media.
Look for ways to learn and celebrate the history of the Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, BC, and Canada!
February 21st was MotherLanguageDay, an international recognition of linguistic diversity.
Joining the Indigenous people, immigrants came from various places in the world to arrive in North America.
Here on the #SaanichPeninsula, early immigrant languages included those from Scotland, Hawaii, Sweden, China, England, India, Ireland, France, California, Japan, Germany, Wales, and Australia, in addition to the first language, #SENĆOŦEN, spoken by the
#W̱SÁNEĆ people!