Current Displays

• Outdoor Displays (open to public every day at no charge)
  • Native plant garden.
  • Petroglyph reproductions. Make your own rubbings.
  • Millstones.
  • Logging arch.
  • Fossilized shells from the top of the island.
  • Concretions.
  
  
• Indoor Displays
  • Geology of Gabriola.
  • Wild Life of Gabriola:
    • Red Cedar.
    • Creatures of the Gabriola Reef.
    • The Beaver and the Eagle.
    • Found on the beach: One Gabriolan's treasures.
  • History of Gabriola:
    • Historic Photographs from the museum's archives:
      • The Malaspina Galleries (1792-present).
      • The Gabriola Album (1880-1950).
      • Making the Millstones (1920s).
    • Pioneer Activities:
      • The old stove.
      • Butter-making.
    • The Silva and Degnen family baskets. Two Quw'utsun (Cowichan) dowries.
    • Who farmed where you live now? Pre-emption records from the 1860s and a map of the Assessment Rolls of 1884/5.
    • Gabriola Schools: Art exercises by Marjoria Degnen (Grade 7 -- 1925).
    • The mail comes to Gabriola.
    • Ferries, 1892-2006.
    • Honour Rolls: WWI and WWII.
    • The So-Called Hippie Invasion: Photos, interviews with old-timers and the new arrivals in the '70s.
    • What is This? Help us identify some objects.
    • Quiet Gabriola? Foghorns, ship's bell and the organ from the Log Church
    
    
  • In the Gallery: Maps of Gabriola in the Salish Sea.
  

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  Created: February 16, 1996 Last updated: January 8, 2007