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Museum Events in 2006
| Sept 16 |
Fall Fair at the Gabriola Commons: A display of farming on Gabriola in the 19th Century, including early tools, land records, photos, and newspaper accounts of giant produce. |
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| Aug 27 |
Last Walk/Talk of the Season with Nick Doe:
On Drumbeg beach, from 2-4 pm.
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| Aug 12 |
Gabriola Museum Yard Sale, Part 2
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| July 23 |
Walk/Talk with Rufus Churcher: From 2-5 pm on Whalebone beach, examines the shale formation and the large variety of 'erratic' stones brought from the coast mountains during the last ice age. Stones found by participants identified. |
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| July 15 |
Barbecue for board and volunteers: at the beautifully situated (and beautiful) home of the president. |
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| June 10 |
Another Walk/Talk with Nick Doe: The second walk/talk, from 10 am to 1 pm, along the north coast of Gabriola, from Berry Point to Pilot Bay, to examine the sandstone formations and visit the site where Galiano and Valdes encountered the Snuneymuxw in 1792. |
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| May 20 |
Gabriola Museum Yard Sale, Part 1
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| May 13 |
Walk/Talk with Nick Doe: The first walk/talk sponsored by GHMS and SHALE, along False Narrows beach from 1-4 pm, to look at fossils, faults in the shale formation, and the midden. |
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| Apr 21 |
Jean Barman, BC historian, visits the museum. In the morning, she meets museum volunteers and a descendant of the Silvas and visits the museum archives. In the evening, at the W.I. Hall, co-sponsored by Poetry Gabriola and Canada Council, she gives a talk on her work. |
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| Mar 11 |
Members Night at the W.I. Hall: Featuring "Rocks with Rufus" -- the geological history of Gabriola as told by Rufus Churcher. |
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| Feb 20 |
Annual General Meeting at the museum.
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| Jan 26 |
A SHALE evening at the W.I. Hall: Nick Doe, editor, and SHALE's writers present works past and works in progress, hands-on exhibits, a question period and refreshments. |
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| Various dates |
Meat Draws at the Golf Club and the Gabriola Days beer garden to raise funds for the museum. |