Talk & TeaThe next Talk & Tea will be held on Sunday, October 25th. Speaker details and subject will be available shortly, so please check back soon.Talk & Tea presentations are 2-4pm in the Museum. $10 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!
In Canada, we mark the February 23rd as National Aviation Day, to honour the day in 1909
in Baddeck NS, when the Silver Dart made the first controlled powered flight in Canada.
The original Silver Dart was designed and built by the Aerial Experiment Association,
which had been formed under the guidance of Dr Alexander Graham Bell.
Locally, we have aviation
all around us on the
Saanich Peninsula, from
the inauguralmail flight
in 1931; to an RCAF
aerodrome; to our
association with the
beloved Martin Mars
waterbombers; to
the current Victoria
International Airport - an
airport that so many
of us use!
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!