Vancouver Maritime Museum

The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a opened in 1959 and is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. The main exhibit is the St. Roch, a historic arctic exploration vessel used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the museum also extensive galleries of model ships.

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Website: https://vanmaritime.com/

Location: 1905 Ogden Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1A3

Ymir Hotel: 125 Year Old Historic Hotel

The historic Hotel Ymir is nestled in the beautiful Selkirk Mountains along the Salmo River in the West Kootenay of British Columbia, Canada. Built in 1896, during the mining boom years of the Salmo River Valley region, the Hotel Ymir is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the region. Today the Ymir Hotel contains another surprise - It's home to one of the in largest personal collections of artwork in Western Canada!

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Website: http://www.hotelymir.com/

Location: 7104 1 Ave, Ymir, BC V0G 2K0

BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART

The Bill Reid Gallery was established by the Bill Reid Foundation to celebrate the Haida master artist Bill Reid (1920 - 1998), contemporary Indigenous Northwest Coast Art and the diverse living cultures of the Northwest Coast. Bill Reid was an acclaimed indigenous artist who infused Haida traditions with his own modernist aesthetic to create both exquisitely small as well as monumental work that captured the public's imagination. His best known works include several large sculptures, Raven and the First Man, The Spirit of Haida Gwaii which have been showcased on the Canadian $20 bill as well as Chief of the Undersea World.

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Website: https://www.billreidgallery.ca/

Location: 639 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2G3

Abandoned St. Eugene Mine

Located on the shores of Moyie Lake, the town of Moyie BC was once famous for the huge St. Eugene Mine, which can still be seen from the highway. In the 1890s a valuable deposit of Lead and Silver ore was discovered on the slopes above the south end of the lake. Soon a mine and not long after a town was established at this location. The ore was discovered by a native fellow, who was encouraged to search for this type of material by a local Catholic Priest (from the St. Eugene Mission – hence the mine's name). The claims here were staked by and were owned by the church for a short time before the property was sold to a mining syndicate under the name St. Eugene Consolidated Mining Company Limited. Later the giant Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company (Cominco – now called Teck) bought the property.

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NIKKEI INTERNMENT MEMORIAL CENTRE

The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre serves as a reminder of the forced removal of Japanese Canadian population from the West Coast during the Second World War. Approximately 12,000 of the 22,000 displaced persons were sent to internment camps established in remote regions by federal authorities. Located at the site of a former camp, the Nikkei Centre is one of the few places to have preserved traces of this tragic episode, notably a community centre and three cabins built to house the internees. The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre was designated a national historic site of Canada in 2007. Dedicated to remembrance, this site constitutes an important memorial for the Japanese Canadian community.

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Website: http://newdenver.ca/nikkei/

Location: 306 Josephine St, New Denver, BC V0G 1S0