PO Box 213 505 South Road
Canada
URL : http://www.gabriolamuseum.org
overview : This volunteer-run community museum tells the story of a small island in the Strait of Georgia, the Northwest Coast of North America- its climate, plants and animals; the petroglyphs carved by its aboriginal inhabitants; its discovery by Spanish explorers and later settlement by European immigrants.
collections : Native artifacts including petroglyph reproductions. Tools and machinery used on the island. Archival material: school records, diaries, organisational records. Native plant garden.
hours (subject to change) : please visit website for current schedule
topics : canadian history, genealogy, petroglyph, botany, island, life, multicultural, marriage, pioneer, school, farming, hippies, prehistoric, 19th, century, 20th, contemporary, American, native, anthropology, archaeology, fossils, geology, local history, natural history, paleontology, zoology
