Gabriola Museum Historical Collection
Gabriola Museum Historical Collection
Objects in the historical collection reflect the main activities of the island's inhabitants before and after the arrival of Europeans in the mid-Nineteenth Century. Most of these activites continue into the present day.
Home-making (before and after Hydro)
Schooling
Communicating (from canoe to mail steamer)
Worshipping
Farming
Logging (by hand and by machine)
Lumber milling
Fishing
Quarrying (building stone and millstones)
Brickmaking
Boat-building
Travelling to the Big Island
Tourism
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Last update: April 9, 2007.
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