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SUMMARY:Exhibit Closing: No Walk in the Woods: The History of the West Coast Trail
DESCRIPTION:Last chance to see our No Walk in the Woods: The History of the West Coast Trail exhibit. The exhibit closes at 4:30 PM for an exhibit changeover.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/exhibit-closing-no-walk-in-the-woods-the-history-of-the-west-coast-trail/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Eric Jamieson (Arctic Patrol: Canada's Fight for Arctic Sovereignty)
DESCRIPTION:Included in admission or membership to the Maritime Museum of BC\, this event will run in the museum gallery. There will be a Q&A period and a book signing\, with copies available in the museum gift shop. \n\n\n\nWalk-ins welcome\, but registering ahead ensures you get a spot! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nIn the 1920s\, Canada’s claim on the Arctic archipelago was tenuous at best. In 1880\, the United Kingdom had handed over control of the area to the expanding dominion\, though much of the area was still unoccupied and unexplored. The North-West Mounted Police\, later to become the RCMP in 1920\, were assigned the territory by the Canadian Government. For years\, little was done to assert this control; over time\, remote detachments were established throughout the archipelago and annual ship patrols were conducted to resupply these posts as well as to demonstrate to the world that Canada was indeed administering to its Arctic. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nEric Jamieson is a retired career banker who took up writing outdoor and history articles for newspapers and magazines in his late 20s. He has authored three books: South Pole: 900 Miles on Foot (Horsdal and Schubart\, 1996)\, co-authored with Gareth Wood; Tragedy At Second Narrows: The Story of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge (Harbour Publishing\, 2008); and The Native Voice (Caitlin Press\, 2016). He was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for History Writing in 2009. He currently resides in North Vancouver with his wife\, Joan.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/book-launch-eric-jamieson-arctic-patrol-canadas-fight-for-arctic-sovereignty/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240519T093000
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SUMMARY:Salty Sunday
DESCRIPTION:Our first Sunday open\, to begin our new opening hours: 7 days per week\, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/salty-sunday/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Special Event,Youth Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240418T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240418T170000
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SUMMARY:MMBC's Birthday
DESCRIPTION:The Maritime Museum of BC is turning 69 this year—celebrate our birthday with us on 18 April 2024. \n\n\n\nAdmission is by donation all day long\, there will be treats\, and our new exhibit No Walk in the Woods: The History of the West Coast Trail will be open!  \n\n\n\nWe first opened our doors on April 18\, 1955 on Signal Hill\, just outside the gates of the HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt. Since then\, the Museum has moved to Bastion Square\, Humboldt Street\, and finally\, our current 744 Douglas Street storefront location.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/2024-mmbc-birthday/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T153000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Michael Hadley (Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage)
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning historian and mariner takes readers on an engrossinginternational journey of self-discovery that explores timely themes of humanconflict\, ethics\, and reconciliation. \n\n\n\nIncluded in admission to the Maritime Museum of BC\, this event will run in the museum gallery. There will be a Q&A period and a book signing\, with copies available in the museum gift shop. \n\n\n\nWalk-ins are welcome\, but registering ahead ensures you get a spot! \n\n\n\n\nRegister Now\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nA member of the so-called Silent Generation\, Michael Hadley has a great deal to say in his twilight years. Opening with his Depression-era childhood on a lonely lighthouse on the west coast of Vancouver Island\, this remarkably nuanced memoir spans decades\, countries\, and oceans. \n\n\n\nHadley’s reflections move through his years growing up in wartime Vancouver in the 1940s\, his concert tours on the British vaudeville stage in the 1950s\, and his early teaching career in Manitoba in the 1960s. He shares his naval service on both coasts and on the Great Lakes\, and his professional experience in Germany\, where unexpected friendships with former submariners trigger an interest in how countries deal with difficult wartime pasts. \n\n\n\nHuman conflict\, ethics\, and multi-faith engagement in criminal justice reform and Restorative Justice shape Hadley’s understandings of reconciliation\, taking him on prison visits across Canada\, the UK\, and Uganda. Whether examining ancient historical sites and battlegrounds\, navigating at sea\, or riding camels in the desert\, he seeks universal patterns of human experience. At once a deeply personal chronicle of a fascinating life and a measured\, mature reflection on some of the most cataclysmic events of the past century\, Boxing the Compass is an unforgettable journey that will leave readers reflecting on the experiences that affect us all. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nMichael Hadley is an award-winning writer\, scholar\, yachtsman\, retired naval officer\, international traveller\, and lecturer. He is the author and editor of several books on naval and maritime history\, including Spindrift: A Canadian Book of the Sea (co-edited with Anita Hadley) and Citizen Sailors: Chronicles of Canada’s Naval Reserve\, 1910–2010 (co-edited with Richard H. Gimlett)\, and his work has won such prestigious awards as the John Lyman Prize of the North American Society for Oceanic History and the Keith Matthews Award of the Canadian Nautical Research Society. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and was awarded the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Maritime Achievement in 2023.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/book-launch-michael-hadley-boxing-the-compass-a-life-of-seafaring-music-and-pilgrimage/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Nautical Nights: The Coffin Ship: Superstition and Incompetence in the S.S. Clallam Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:One-hundred-and-twenty years after one of the worst maritime disasters in the Pacific Northwest\, historian Erik Kosick joins our Nautical Nights Speaker Series to delve into the history of The Coffin Ship: Superstition and Incompetence in the S.S. Clallam Tragedy. \n\n\n\nIn January 1904\, the 6-month-old steamer Clallam foundered in the Strait on Juan de Fuca\, with the loss of at least 54 lives\, the worst maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest since the wreck of the Pacific in 1875. Struggling in a gale\, the steamer had fallen into distress only three miles from Victoria’s harbour\, well within sight of onlookers ashore. Launched in fear of an immediate sinking\, her lifeboats became deathtraps in the Strait\, drowning all that entered them. The steamer remained afloat for several more hours. When the Clallam finally slid below the waves of the Strait\, only fourteen of her passengers survived; every woman and child was lost\, while nearly all the crew survived. Victoria was hit particularly hard by the tragedy\, as many of the victims came from the city. Rumblings of ill omens surrounded Clallam’s launch and final voyage and was posthumously labeled as the ‘Hoodoo Ship’. \n\n\n\nDespite unbroken champagne bottles and nervous bellwether sheep\, the causes of Clallam’s wreck were not supernatural. In fact\, she had been well-liked by the traveling public and had passed all inspections. As Canadian and American investigations in the wreck revealed a culture of incompetence and corruption inside the steamboat industry\, grief turned to anger in an explosive scandal that sowed Canadian wariness of American steamships. On the American side\, the inquiries were a source of local and national contention; the Clallam would be an ignored warning for worse maritime disasters soon to come. 120 years after the tragedy\, through rarely seen photographs and objects\, writer and historian Erik Kosick will take you aboard the final voyage of the Clallam\, exploring the stories of her passengers and crew\, and how this almost forgotten shipwreck drastically altered the course of the maritime industry in the Salish Sea. \n\n\n\nThe Speaker – Erik Kosick\n\n\n\nErik Kosick graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Pacific Lutheran University in 2016\, and currently works for the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma. Erik has a strong interest in Pacific Northwest history\, particularly in maritime history. In 2020\, he consulted and donated artifacts for the Society’s exhibit Unforgiving Waters: Shipwrecks of the Pacific Northwest. Erik was a historical consultant and presenter for the 2023 documentary Death is With Me\, on the 1937 ‘Lady of the Lake’ murder case at Lake Crescent\, Washington. \n\n\n\nHe also writes for the Washington State Historical Society’s magazine COLUMBIA under the feature Maps and Legends. The Clallam disaster is a fascination of his and has been researching the shipwreck since 2009. He also presented a lecture on the shipwreck for the Pacific Northwest History Conference in October 2020 and a corresponding feature article for COLUMBIA. He is also nearing completion of a book concerning the tragedy.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/nautical-nights-the-coffin-ship-superstition-and-incompetence-in-the-s-s-clallam-tragedy/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240312T100000
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SUMMARY:Community Week
DESCRIPTION:Admission by donation all week long to celebrate our 2024 Float the Boat fundraising campaign. All donations will count towards the milestone counts in our boat tank. \n\n\n\n\nDOnate Now
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/community-week/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Float the Boat,Fundraising Campaigns,Special Event,Youth Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240223T180000
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SUMMARY:Where the Wind Meets the Tide
DESCRIPTION:From fishing boats to ferries\, a diverse group of mariners share their tales of lives on the water off northern Vancouver Island. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker – Suzanne Jolly\, Director and Producer\n\n\n\nSuzanne Jolly crafts stories as a means of exploring the world and creating connection. With a graduate degree in Education and a Bachelors in Communications\, she has spent the last two decades as a professional writer\, instructor\, multimedia strategist\, and administrator in higher education. She has a love of people and their fantastic tales\, as well as dogs and their wagging tails. If you find her not chatting with someone or teaching yoga\, you’ll likely not be able to find her at all: she’s often riding on her adventure motorbike in the backcountry or paddling with her husband in their ocean kayaks. She loves being on the ocean and is the stepdaughter of a tugboat captain. She lives in Campbell River\, BC where she met many who work on the water\, as she previously ran marine safety training at North Island College.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/where-the-wind-meets-the-tide/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240217T100000
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SUMMARY:Random Acts of Kindness Day
DESCRIPTION:Spread a little kindness today! A treat for you: the gallery is open by donation during opening hours.
URL:https://staging.mmbc.bc.ca/event/random-acts-of-kindness-day-2024/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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