Archived Exhibits, Exhibits
The Japanese of Silva Bay Gabriola Island In 2017, Heritage BC designated the Sunrise Sawmill and Koyama’s Fishcampas Japanese-Canadian historic sites Japanese began immigrating to BC in significant numbers at the end of the 19th century. Most settled in Vancouver and...
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Gabriola Roots The Land Provides The story of how Gabriola has met the spiritual and physical needs of its inhabitants through the ages. Gabriola Stories This 31 minute podcast introduces the Exhibit and Film, The Land Provides with a series of interviews. Gabriola...
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Gabriola Tides – Stories of Silva Bay Gabriola Island The Stories of Silva Bay are brought to life by a wonderful film crafted by Tobi Elliot. Ode to Silva Bay sheet music. Lyrics and music composed by Kitty Silva in 1950. The Filming of Gabriola Tides: Stories...
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Brick by Brick The story of the Gabriola Brickyard From the late 1890’s to 1951, the Brickyard was Gabriola’s single most important industry and largest employer. Gabriola islanders, Chinese contract labourers and immigrant workers produced up to 80,000 bricks a...
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From Gabriola to Flanders Fields The Centennial of the Great War on Gabriola Island One hundred years ago, 30 young men from Gabriola Island left their island homes to fight in the fields of Flanders in Belgium and northern France, in what was then called the Great...
