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Image from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection, digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.

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Weather station atop Old Glory built in 1940s as a mountain observatory for Trans-Canada Airlines

 

Happy Heritage Week! Check out this photo of a group of Rossland oldtimers, taken on Columbia Avenue, circa 1950. William Treverton, Alf Endersby, James Row, V. Spence, Lawrence Delmas, ? Petrie, N. Martello, and T. Ruelle - in front of Tibby’s Beauty Parlor! Do you have any information or memories about this photo or the people in it? Let us know! Email our research department at <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-safelink="true" href="mailto:archives@rosslandmuseum.ca" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">archives@rosslandmuseum.ca</a> or give us a call at 250-362-7722. Photo from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection, digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.

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If you have info about this photo or others you’d like to share, contact archives@rosslandmuseum.ca

 

The Rossland Museum invites all to Family Day at the Museum on Saturday, where they will be serving up snow activities, a campfire, maple taffy, hot chocolate, and hot apple cider to keep everyone warm. Photo: Jim Bailey

Celebrate Family Day at Rossland Museum

The Museum is hosting a family-friendly snow day Saturday between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

 

A bone in the office of Victoria Arbour at the Royal B.C. Museum. (Ella Matte, Black Press Media)

$8.4M ‘Sue the T. rex’ skeleton invades Royal B.C. Museum in pending new dino exhibit

Exhibit on its way later this year will focus on dinosaur discoveries from around the province

  • Feb 1, 2023
A bone in the office of Victoria Arbour at the Royal B.C. Museum. (Ella Matte, Black Press Media)
This photo is from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives. The photo can be scanned and the original returned to the donor.

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Vote today and help Rossland Arts Centre Society win funding through the Next Great Save contest

This photo is from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives. The photo can be scanned and the original returned to the donor.
The photo above is from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives. The original can be scanned and then returned to the donor.

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Get your Rossland Museum 2023 calendars filled with fabulous archived photos

The photo above is from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives. The original can be scanned and then returned to the donor.
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Our History in Pictures

Red Mountain is set to open Dec. 10, learn more about its history at rosslandmuseum.ca/ski-history.

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A memorial totem pole is shown in this handout image provided by National Museums Scotland. The museum says it will return to the Nisga’a Nation in British Columbia a memorial pole taken nearly a century ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-National Museums Scotland

B.C. Nisga’a totem on display at Scotland museum since 1930 is heading home

Delegation of Nisga’a leaders travelled to Edinburgh last August to ask that the pole be returned

A memorial totem pole is shown in this handout image provided by National Museums Scotland. The museum says it will return to the Nisga’a Nation in British Columbia a memorial pole taken nearly a century ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-National Museums Scotland
A plane parked at the BC Aviation Museum. (Courtesy BC Aviation Museum)

BC Aviation Museum seeking donations for new floatplane exhibit

Donations will be used in a new exhibit dedicated to floatplanes during the 1950s

A plane parked at the BC Aviation Museum. (Courtesy BC Aviation Museum)
The Victoria Cross Medal belonging to Pte. James Peter Robertson is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Tilston Memorial Collection of Canadian Military Medals, Canadian War Museum

‘War hero of the family’: Canadian War Museum acquires 3 more Victoria Crosses

Museum now has 36 of the 73 Victoria Crosses awarded to Canadians in the First World War

The Victoria Cross Medal belonging to Pte. James Peter Robertson is seen in an undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Tilston Memorial Collection of Canadian Military Medals, Canadian War Museum
This photo is from the Rossland Museum Discovery Centre collection, digitized courtesy of the @ColumbiaBasinInstitute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives, where they can be scanned and you can also scan them and you retain the original.

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Rossland Museum invites all to its Halloween bash and costume contest on Saturday, Oct. 29

This photo is from the Rossland Museum Discovery Centre collection, digitized courtesy of the @ColumbiaBasinInstitute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives, where they can be scanned and you can also scan them and you retain the original.
Photo from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the @ColumbiaBasinInstitute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.

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Nurses were vital to Rossland’s beginnings as a small mining town. The…

Photo from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the @ColumbiaBasinInstitute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.
An exhibit from the third floor of B.C. Royal Museum is pictured in Victoria, Wednesday, December 29, 2021. The museum announced that it will be closing the third floor including parts of the First Peoples Gallery in an effort to decolonize the institution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Canadian Museums Association recommends 10 ways to decolonize heritage sector

Report presents ways to give Indigenous Peoples authority over how they are represented

An exhibit from the third floor of B.C. Royal Museum is pictured in Victoria, Wednesday, December 29, 2021. The museum announced that it will be closing the third floor including parts of the First Peoples Gallery in an effort to decolonize the institution. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
An original Seth Martin goalie mask. Photo: Jim Bailey

Trail Museum acquires three more hockey treasures

The already impressive collection makes wonderful additions to Greater Trail’s hockey legacy

An original Seth Martin goalie mask. Photo: Jim Bailey
James Manke has been “overwhelmed” by the local support he’s received since rolling new life into the town’s iconic The Wreckage building with a brand new kayak museum. (Andrew Bailey photo)

Traditional kayaking museum debuts in The Wreckage of B.C.’s wild West Coast

Manke at the Wreckage celebrating the building and use of traditional kayaks in Ucluelet

James Manke has been “overwhelmed” by the local support he’s received since rolling new life into the town’s iconic The Wreckage building with a brand new kayak museum. (Andrew Bailey photo)
People walk up stairs to the entrance of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced June 22 they are stopping their $789-million plan to rebuild the ageing building, and sending things back to public consultation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Province cancels controversial $789M Royal BC Museum rebuild

Premier says public engagement will now determine the future of the ‘seismically unsafe’ building

People walk up stairs to the entrance of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, B.C. Premier John Horgan announced June 22 they are stopping their $789-million plan to rebuild the ageing building, and sending things back to public consultation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Doukhobor Discovery Centre. Photo: Betsy Kline

VIDEO: Living history mystery at the Doukhobor Discovery Centre in Castlegar

Theatre company performing at museum this week

Doukhobor Discovery Centre. Photo: Betsy Kline
An example of a black-figure panel amphora from the last quarter 6th century B.C. seen in the Dallas Museum of Art. (Wikimedia Commons)

Police say man smashes ancient museum artifacts worth millions in Dallas

A 6th century B.C. Greek amphora and a Greek pot dating to 450 B.C. were among the items destroyed

An example of a black-figure panel amphora from the last quarter 6th century B.C. seen in the Dallas Museum of Art. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Royal B.C. Museum will close in September in preparation for a rebuild. BC Archives will remain until 2025 with Imax Victoria staying open through early 2023. (Black Press Media file photo)

Royal B.C. Museum gets $789-million overhaul

Museum to close in September for rebuild, expected opening in 2030

The Royal B.C. Museum will close in September in preparation for a rebuild. BC Archives will remain until 2025 with Imax Victoria staying open through early 2023. (Black Press Media file photo)
Pictured: Nellie Schorlemer, Mrs. Gus Parker, Mrs. Bernice Post, and twins Lyle and Lynn Post circa 1900. Photo from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.

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If you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history contact the museum to share

  • Apr 14, 2022
Pictured: Nellie Schorlemer, Mrs. Gus Parker, Mrs. Bernice Post, and twins Lyle and Lynn Post circa 1900. Photo from the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre collection digitized courtesy of the Columbia Basin Institute. Do you have original photos capturing Rossland’s storied history? Consider donating them to the Rossland Archives - we can also scan them and you retain the original.
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