Greenwood Museum & Visitor Centre

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

If you live near Christina Lake Visitor Centre, this might be the career move for you! Boundary Country BC

JOB POSTING! PLEASE SHARE!
As the Manager, Member & Destination Development, you will play a pivotal role in delivering value to our members representing Christina Lake at regional tables, and activating local and regional marketing opportunities. You will be responsible for managing membership fees, promotional materials, and related budgets, ensuring that our community stakeholders are well represented and engaged.

What you will do:

- Member Engagement & Value Creation
- Regional Representation & Marketing Activation
- Social Media Management
- Strategic Planning & Community Engagement

What you will bring:

- Proven experience in member management, community engagement, and destination development
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with diverse stakeholders
- Ability to manage budgets, promotional materials, and strategic initiatives with attention to detail
- A passion for tourism and our mission, community development, and the success of Christina Lake
- Proficiency in social media management, including content creation, and analytics

Contact us for perks, compensation for work related business, and hours!

Send your resume now to [email protected]

DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 5th 2024!

09/01/2024

The lovely museum in Molson only has two days open. https://molsonmuseums.org/history/ if you're around the area and can drop in, don't miss it for 2024. We continue to be open daily, hour changing after Labour Day from 10-4pm.

History In 1896, gold rich ore was discovered in the local area and miners started to come in and settle, swelling the population of just a dozen or so to close to 300. In two short years, it became apparent that only one of the mines was producing any ore, and so the population fell off as the pros...

09/01/2024

To close our 2024 gathering, we want to start a discussion about how to sustain change in a time of crisis. Join this panel for a conversation about burnout, stress, and finding ways to support yourself as a human being during a time of constant upheaval and uncertainty. After another gruelling summer, it is important that we make space to recognize that many of us are not okay and to offer a forum for people to discuss managing stress and self-care.

Arts, culture, and heritage workers have the second-highest rates of stress, anxiety, and burnout of any profession in the country. For the past five years, we have weathered an ongoing pandemic, have been impacted and sometimes displaced by climate emergencies, have watched wars and genocides around the world, and have still gone to work. At the same time inflation has eaten into our organizational budgets and governments at all levels have contracted the grants we depend on for survival. Many of us are experiencing burnout. If we don’t take action to protect our mental health and create cultures of care within our organizations, we won’t be able to sustain the work needed to transform our sector.

Moderated by: Tracy Calogheros. Panellists: Kate Cox, Barkerville Historic Town & Park; Shirley Hogan, Canadian Mental Health Association of Northern BC

Register for the 2024 BCMA Conference by August 31! To learn more, visit: https://museum.bc.ca/conferences-and-events/conference/

09/01/2024

09/01/2024

Parks Canada practicing reconcilliation.

08/28/2024

Join us this Wed., Aug. 28, at 7 pm PST for Heritage BC's Zoom launch party of BC's new Industrial Heritage Sites. Howard Shimokura, Tashme elder, will be giving a short talk on The Tashme Shoyu Factory, which was recognized as a new provincial Industrial Heritage site. When Japanese Canadians were interned in Tashme Internment camp in 1942, they built a miso and shoyu factory for the residents as well as for selling outside the camp for jobs. Learn about this incredible story of cultural heritage of BC’s industrial past.

Online launch event is free, but need to register: https://heritagebc.ca/industrial-heritage-location/tashme-shoyu-factory/

08/03/2024

WE HAVE N-95 Masks available at the museum for free for you to pick up!!!!

They are given to us on behalf of the Government of Canada, the Canadian Red Cross is distributing N95 respirator masks to organizations located in communities at risk of exposure to wildfire smoke that may impact air quality.

Smoke can travel hundreds or thousands of kilometres from the fire zone. Even if you're not close to a fire, you can still be affected by the smoke. There is no safe level of exposure to wildfire smoke as it can pose a risk to your health even at very low levels. Learn more about wildfire smoke, air quality and health at canada.ca/wildfiresmoke.

07/27/2024

TORONTO – Travis Murao never forgets that every time he dons that Team Canada jersey for Canada’s wheelchair rugby team, it came at a price to his family. “The more I learn about my Dad’s […]

07/26/2024

Everyone saw this post right?

BC Heritage Sites is a key program of Japanese Canadian Legacies, developed to assist local communities in British Columbia in promoting public awareness of pre-war Japanese Canadian history through interpretive heritage projects at sites of ancestral communities and other places of historical significance including sites of wartime incarceration.

Following years of planning and deep, collaborative work, the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is extremely proud to announce 27 sites across the province that have received funding through the BC Heritage Sites program (the Hastings Park proposal is in development).

Sites were chosen based on their significance to the prewar and wartime communities, also taking into account the infrastructure in place to maintain them.

We thank co-coordinator Linda Kawamoto Reid who led the four-month research and discovery phase, bringing decades of knowledge to the program. A huge debt of gratitude goes to the assessment team of Nao Seko, Mike Aoki, Mike Matsuo, Kim Kalanj, and Yasushi Oki, who for over three months assessed feasibility and risk management of all applications. Thank you to Jeff Masuda, Sherri Kajiwara, Sachiko Okuda for reviewing draft guidelines written by Eiko Eby. The Heritage Sites Team of Susanne Tabata, Linda Kawamoto Reid, and Lane McGarrity looks forward to sharing the progress of these important sites so that we can begin the process of reclaiming our unique history and narrative.

For a full listing of the 27 BC Heritage Sites, project titles, descriptions, and photos, please visit https://jclegacies.com/bc-heritage-sites-list

07/24/2024

07/22/2024

INVESTORS WANTED!!!

07/21/2024

Be aware Kettle River Museum needs to close early when it's +35c. We have air conditioning so we will remain open until 5 pm daily (as long as the electricity is on).

07/16/2024

BC Heritage Sites is a key program of Japanese Canadian Legacies, developed to assist local communities in British Columbia in promoting public awareness of pre-war Japanese Canadian history through interpretive heritage projects at sites of ancestral communities and other places of historical significance including sites of wartime incarceration.

Following years of planning and deep, collaborative work, the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is extremely proud to announce 27 sites across the province that have received funding through the BC Heritage Sites program (the Hastings Park proposal is in development).

Sites were chosen based on their significance to the prewar and wartime communities, also taking into account the infrastructure in place to maintain them.

We thank co-coordinator Linda Kawamoto Reid who led the four-month research and discovery phase, bringing decades of knowledge to the program. A huge debt of gratitude goes to the assessment team of Nao Seko, Mike Aoki, Mike Matsuo, Kim Kalanj, and Yasushi Oki, who for over three months assessed feasibility and risk management of all applications. Thank you to Jeff Masuda, Sherri Kajiwara, Sachiko Okuda for reviewing draft guidelines written by Eiko Eby. The Heritage Sites Team of Susanne Tabata, Linda Kawamoto Reid, and Lane McGarrity looks forward to sharing the progress of these important sites so that we can begin the process of reclaiming our unique history and narrative.

For a full listing of the 27 BC Heritage Sites, project titles, descriptions, and photos, please visit https://jclegacies.com/bc-heritage-sites-list

07/16/2024

"Following years of planning and deep, collaborative work, the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society is extremely proud to announce 27 sites across the province that have received funding through the BC Heritage Sites program" For the full announcement go to ------> https://jclegacies.com/bc-heritage-sites-list/

Congratulations to The City of Greenwood Japanese Garden Project !!!

Japanese Canadian Legacies Society Chuck Tasaka City of Greenwood Thompson Okanagan Boundary Country BC Japanese Canadians Facebook Group

07/15/2024

Join Lorenda and Leia as we read through multiple levels of UNDRIP reports to better understand the direction, goals and actions our sector is working to support. Documents like the CMA’s Moved to Action report have sought to determine the level of UNDRIP implementation that exists in the sector, but many of us have only a general understanding of what UNDRIP asks us to achieve and have not often engaged thoughtfully with the declaration.

Join us every other week as we move through the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), The Government of Canada’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan (2023), and the Government of B.C’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan (2022) with eight discussion sessions. For the ninth meeting, attendees are encouraged to read and share any action plans from their regional districts or municipalities to continue the learning down to a regional lens.

The next session is Tuesday, July 16, at 10:00 am. For more information: https://museum.bc.ca/event-list/?eid=80

ID: A light yellow square. The left side contains illustrated images of Leia, Lorenda, and the BCMA Owl mascot surrounded by books. The title "BCMA Book Club" appears to the right on an orange rounded edged square background.

07/15/2024

Looking forward to the tour stopping in Greenwood!

Tomoshibi 灯 Journey: Lighting the Way Through Japanese Canadian Sites of Internment

The Tomoshibi 灯 Journey bus tour is taking place this week, from July 15 – 19, 2024. For five days, a group of 50 participants will visit various Japanese Canadian internment sites across British Columbia. The tour is designed to provide a comprehensive experience, including trauma-informed support and healing circles from start to finish, to help participants process the stark contrast between the breathtaking beauty of British Columbia and the dark history of the internment sites.

Participants will explore towns and buildings that once housed internees and visit fields where internment shacks once stood. This journey is both a physical and emotional passage to the past, illuminating the way forward.

We gratefully acknowledge the support from the Intergenerational Wellness Intergenerational Group Gatherings Fund of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society.

Sunshine Valley Tashme Museum Greenwood Museum & Visitor Centre Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre National Historic Site The Langham - Kaslo Cultural Centre

07/15/2024

🎉 SNCEWIPS MUSEUM & GIFT STORE - WEST KELOWNA

The Sncewips Heritage Museum began as a repository after Westbank First Nation achieved self-government in 2005. As our collection grew, we transitioned to the public sphere by opening our doors as a museum on June 14th, 2014. Five years later, we launched our much anticipated move and re-opened our space on February 1st, 2020. Through all of its changes, our museum continues to provide a protected place for sqilxʷ culture and heritage.

As an Indigenous owned and operated business, we hold space for syilx voices, connect our community to opportunity, and maintain a safe space for open, honest conversation. We encourage everyone who lives and plays in the Okanagan to drop-in, book a tour, and do their part to learn about the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx people.

www.sncewips.com

07/14/2024

Founders Day, Greenwood, BC float for the Greenwood Museum yesterday.

Thanks to everyone who came out!

07/14/2024

One more day of Founders Day, Greenwood, BC left in 2024. Come out for pancake breakfast, all the food vendors and lots of great music! You'll only be one year older next year!

07/02/2024

A couple of weeks some old-time cars drove into Greenwood and stopped at the Museum.
Here are some photos. Thanks to Greenwood Tours. Their page is ://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093689023516 to schedule a walking tour of Greenwood BC while you visit. Schedule ahead to avoid disappointment!

07/02/2024

Led by professional museum conservator Tara Fraser, this workshop explores what causes deterioration in our collections and how to prevent it, including info...

07/01/2024

07/01/2024

Happening today in Village of Midway