Thursday, April 20th
7 pm (doors at 6:30)
Roxy Theatre

Gabriola Museum proudly presents local author, editor and playwright Debbie Marshall as she launches her latest book at the Roxy Theatre.
Firing Lines:Three Canadian Women Write the First World War.

John Howard Society to give presentation on Gabriola about new addiction treatment that is changing lives. by Ivan Bulic; submitted to the sounder March 16, 2017 Few communities in BC remain untouched by addiction problems. And while the opioid crisis makes the front...

Gabriola’s favourite world travellers, Steve Struthers and Alison Douglas, have just returned from their latest adventure - a voyage that took them from the deserts of Mauritania to the equatorial jungles of Senegal. They will share a multi media presentation at 7 pm,...

The Museum’s first evening of the 2017 Gabriolan Talk Series  will feature geologist Steven Earle discussing earthquakes. Steve will review the geological origins of earthquakes on Canada’s shaky western coast and will discuss the evidence for and effects of some...

From Gabriola to the Bering Sea and Back as published in the Sounder, March 16, 2016 Only a handful of small-boat sailors have dared to venture “north of 60” into Alaska’s Bering Sea; one of the stormiest and most dangerous stretches of water on the planet. Gabriola...

Museum’s 2016 Talk Series opens with presentation on Martin Mars water bomber.  Submitted to the Sounder by: Gabriola Historical and Museum Society  BC’s iconic Martin Mars water bomber is the biggest seaplane in the world. And few people know more about the big red...

We hope you will be able to join us for our final event before the Museum closes its doors for 2015 :  a performance of “Davy the Punk”. Bob Bossin will be performing his one-man show, probably for the last time on Gabriola, on the evening of Saturday, October 10th,...

article published in the SOUNDER, February 24, 2015 With close to 70 percent of all fruit and vegetables consumed in BC imported from California and the US, we will all have to start rethinking where our food comes from and how we grow it. Food production in...

A multimedia presentation by Gabriola boat builder and artist Tony Grove and documentary film maker Tobi Elliott.

The Story of Silva Bay Shipyard by Fred Withey

April, 2012 Presentation by historian Jean Barnam on the arrival of Hawaiian, African-America and Spanish settlers on the West Coast. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library.

February 2012 Cecil Ashley presented vintage movies from the 1930s and 1940s depicting the logging, sawmilling, and fishing industries on the west coast of BC activities of the time. The movies were complemented by local artist Doug Harrison’s Working West Coast...

October, 2011 Long-time peace and social activists Susan Yates, Holda Pattern, Jean McLaren and Ted Wilson recounted the story of the Gabriola Island Peace Association.

Information on Vancouver Aquarium’s BC Cetacean Sightings Network and the role that Gabriolans can play in reporting cetacean sightings. The speakers were Caitlin Birdsail and Heather Lord of Vancouver Aquarium. GROWLS co-sponsored the presentation.

This was a multi-visual presentation on the history of ferry services to Gabriola Island with guest speaker Mark Stefanson, BC Ferries Vice-President of Public affairs.

A presentation by Professor Jean Clottes.

Grand Opening of the Joined Hands exhibit presenting the history and legacy of Jane Degnan and Louisa Silva (note link).