Royal British Columbia Museum [SEP] date of official opening
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Royal British Columbia Museum


Founded in 1886, the Royal British Columbia Museum (sometimes referred to as Royal BC Museum) consists of The Province of British Columbia's natural and human history museum as well as the British Columbia Provincial Archives. The museum is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The "Royal" title was approved by Queen Elizabeth II and bestowed by HRH Prince Philip in 1987, to coincide with a Royal tour of that year. The museum merged with the British Columbia Provincial Archives in 2003. The Royal BC Museum includes three
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Netherlands Centennial Carillon


The Netherlands Centennial Carillon is a 62-bell carillon located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Its tower is located at the intersection of Government Street and Belleville Street, in front of the Royal British Columbia Museum and across the street from the Parliament Building. It was given by the Dutch community of British Columbia in thanks for Canada's role in the liberation of the Netherlands during World War II. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands unveiled its cornerstone in 1967, Canada's centennial year. The carillon officially opened in May 1968. Its
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Richard Clement Moody


occurred in and around Moody Park, including Century House, which was opened by Princess Margaret on 23 July 1958. In 1984, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of New Westminster, a monument in honour of Richard Clement Moody, at the entrance of the park, was unveiled by Mayor Tom Baker. In January 2014, with the support of the Friends of the British Columbia Archives and of the Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation, the Royal British Columbia Museum purchased a photograph album that had belonged to Richard Clement. The
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. In 1896, the museum was given space in the east wing of the new Legislative buildings. The museum’s mandate was updated by the BC government in 1913, and the collection of natural history specimens and anthropological material became official parts of the museum’s operations, as well as the dissemination of knowledge to the people of British Columbia. In 1921, the basement of the east annex of the Legislature was excavated to provide the museum with additional room. As part of the 1967 Canadian centenary celebrations, BC Premier W. A.
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Time of Change". Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2013. Lohman, Jack. "Treasures of the Royal BC Museum and Archives". Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Marc, Jacques. "Pacific Coast Ship China". Victoria: RBCM, 2009.br Nagorsen, David W. "Opossums, Shrews and Moles of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 1996.br Nagorsen, David W. "Rodents & Lagomorphs of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 2005.br Rajala, Richard A. "Up-Coast Forests and
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Peter Macnair


Peter Livesay Macnair, Canadian Anthropologist (1940–Present) Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of Dorothy Livesay and Duncan Macnair. From 1965 until 1996 Macnair was the Curator of Ethnology at the Royal British Columbia Museum. During this time he was responsible for ground-breaking work in museum anthropology and the participation of aboriginal peoples in the creation of museum exhibits. Since his retirement from the Royal British Columbia Museum, Macnair has been as active as ever and has curated exhibits for the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of
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Royal British Columbia Museum


Victoria: RBCM, 1959.br Duff, Wilson. "The Indian History of British Columbia: The Impact of the White Man". Victoria: RBCM, 1997.br Ford, John K. B. "Marine Mammals of British Columbia". Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2014. Forsyth, Robert G. "Land Snails of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 2004. Graham-Bell, Margaret. "Preventive Conservation: A Manual". Victoria: BCMA, 1983. (2nd ed. 1986) Green, David M,
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History of British Columbia


: the ongoing pull between maritime and continental forces; the opposition between a "closed", hierarchical model of society represented by the Hudson's Bay Company and colonial officials, and the "open", egalitarian vision of English and Canadian settlers, and regional tensions between Vancouver Island and mainland, metropolitan Vancouver and the hinterland interior. Human history in what has come to be known as British Columbia dates back thousands of years. Archaeology finds in British Columbia have been dated to as early as 13,500 years ago, with some exciting
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, Eds. "Nature Guide to the Victoria Region ". Victoria: RBCM and the Victoria Natural History Society, October 2012.br Corley-Smith, Peter. "The Ring of Time: The Story of the British Columbia Provincial Museum." Victoria: RBCM, 1985.br Corley-Smith, Peter. "White Bears and Other Curiosities: The First 100 Years of the Royal British Columbia Museum". Victoria: RBCM, 1989. Print.br Duff, Wilson, ed. "Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool".
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RMS Titanic, Leonardo da Vinci, Egyptian artifacts, the Vikings, the British Columbia gold rushes and Genghis Khan. The Royal BC Museum partners with and houses the IMAX Victoria theater, which shows educational films as well as commercial entertainment. The museum is beside Victoria's Inner Harbour, between the Empress Hotel and the Legislature Buildings. The museum anchors the Royal BC Museum Cultural Precinct, a surrounding area with historical sites and monuments, including Thunderbird Park. The museum also operates traveling exhibitions which tour the province of BC, as
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website. "Living Landscapes" was an award-winning, successful "regional outreach program involving intensive cooperation with other museums, First Nations, educators, naturalists, and other agencies." Its goal was "to encourage and facilitate the exploration and appreciation of the human and natural history of British Columbia from regional perspectives," and it focused on "particular regions of B.C. and integrating stories and research locally generated with both research knowledge and descriptive information from the collections and curatorial staff at the Royal British Columbia Museum." In
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stop European and American museums from appropriating BC artifacts. Notably, the petitioners argued that the export of First Nations artifacts was particularly troubling, under the premise that “their loss [was] frequently irreparable.” On October 25, 1886, the 15-by-20-foot Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology opened in the Birdcages (the former BC Legislative buildings). The first curator was naturalist John Fannin, who donated his own large collection of preserved birds and animals to the museum. After its inception, the Royal BC Museum continually expanded
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Royal British Columbia Museum


C. Bennett committed to building a new home for the Royal BC Museum. It opened on August 16, 1968, with a final construction budget of $9.5 million. The museum remains housed in this building. One of the most prized displays is the 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom Limousine once owned by John Lennon. It was purchased by Vancouver billionaire and donated to the museum. http://blog.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/2010/10/imagine.html The museum is situated in the cultural precinct, an area comprising various significant historical buildings near the Inner Harbour. The cultural precinct occupies the
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Leonard Frank (photographer)


His photographs are also found at the British Columbia Archives, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the BC and Yukon Chamber of Mines, the University of British Columbia Special Collections, and the Alberni Valley Museum. Some of Frank's images were shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1976, as part of the exhibit "Eleven Early British Columbia Photographers, 1890-1940". Five years after Landauer's death in 1980, the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia purchased a substantial body of work for both Landauer and Frank. A
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-chah-nulth Chiefs". Victoria: RBCM, 1999.br Bridge, Kathryn. "New Perspectives on the Gold Rush". Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Brayshaw, T. Christopher. "Catkin-Bearing Plants of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 1996.br Brayshaw, T. Christopher. "Plant Collecting for the Amateur". Victoria: RBCM, 1996.br Brayshaw, T. Christopher. "Pondweeds and Bur-reeds and Their Relatives of British Columbia Aquatic Families of Monocotyledons". Victoria: RBCM, 2000.br Brayshaw
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policy states that the museum's collection must pertain to the natural or human history of BC. The collection is divided into specific categories of "significant objects," "representative objects," and "comparative objects." The Museum Act authorizes the Royal BC Museum to enable the preservation and management of the collection by securing, receiving, providing access to, and maintaining artifacts that adroitly illustrate the natural or human history of British Columbia. The human history department aims to represent the cultural, social, and economic history of the
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Burnaby Village Museum


the Century Park Museum Association. In 1993 the C.W. Parker Carousel was officially opened, housed in the newly constructed Don Wrigley Pavilion. The Museum's popular "Business as Usual" school program was launched in 1999, with "Home Sweet Home" following soon behind in 2000. In 2000, the museum opened its "Stride Studios" temporary exhibit gallery, allowing for temporary exhibits that explored topics beyond Burnaby in the 1920s to be featured as part of the visitor experience. In 2001, the Museum's 1912 British Columbia Electric
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Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)


traditional Kwakwaka'wakw "big house" built in 1953 by Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Mungo Martin. The park is part of the Royal BC Museum Cultural Precinct, an area around the museum that contains a number of historical sites and monuments. Totem poles were first erected on the site in 1940 as part of a conservation effort to preserve some of the region's rapidly deteriorating Aboriginal art. The site was opened as Thunderbird Park in 1941. By 1951, many of the poles had greatly decayed, and in 1952 the Royal BC Museum began a
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Royal Roads University


HMCS Royal Roads Bell was kept in the Museum at CFB Esquimalt. It was officially repatriated on 10 Sep 2010 during the Royal Roads University 2010 Homecoming. Based on the 2011 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), Royal Roads University was ranked 1st public institution for an active and collaborative learning experience and for level of academic challenge In 2008 "The Globe and Mail"s Canadian University Report gave Royal Roads grades in particular categories along with 55 other universities. The grades are based on the Globe and Mail student satisfaction survey. Royal
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Vancouver Maritime Museum


The Vancouver Maritime Museum is a Maritime museum devoted to presenting the maritime history of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and the Canadian Arctic. Opened in 1959 as a Vancouver centennial project, it is located within Vanier Park just west of False Creek on the Vancouver waterfront. The museum is affiliated with CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada. The main exhibit is the "St. Roch", a historic arctic exploration vessel used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The museum also has extensive galleries of model ships,
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Royal tours of Canada by the Canadian Royal Family


1971, the Queen was in British Columbia to celebrate the centennial of the province's entry into Confederation. She toured Alberta and Saskatchewan in July 1973, to celebrate the centennial of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, opening the new RCMP museum building in Regina, and in 1978, to open the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. In Saskatchewan, she dedicated Queen Elizabeth Court, in front of Regina's city hall. 28 June – 6 July 1976: Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward joined the Queen and Prince Philip for
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Wax museum


museum in the U.S. is the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California. BibleWalk is a Christian wax museum in Mansfield, Ohio. It has received attention for its use of celebrity wax figures in its religious scenes, originally a cost-saving measure when new wax figures were deemed too expensive. The Royal London Wax Museum was open in downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from 1970 to 2010 in the Steamship Terminal building, it featured "royalty to rogues and the renowned." It was forced
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Ian McTaggart-Cowan


where he studied deer under Joseph Grinnell. Upon returning to Canada, he took up a position at the provincial museum in British Columbia (later renamed the Royal British Columbia Museum) for six years. He next took a professorship at the University of British Columbia, where he established the first university wildlife program in Canada. McTaggart-Cowan was active in early studies of British Columbia Provincial Parks and Canada's Rocky Mountain National Parks. More so than many other ecologists of the time, McTaggart-Cowan stressed the importance of studies
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Nisga'a Museum


Nisga'a from the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and the Anglican Church of Canada through the negotiated Nisga'a Treaty. The entrance to the exhibits is through a replica of a Nisga'a longhouse which are exhibited in four galleries: Most of the artifacts are displayed in the open with only the most delicate or valuable behind glass, all secured by motion sensors. Included in the displays are four house poles (totem poles), representing the four Nisga'a clans, that were carved specifically for the museum. Future exhibits
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Canada. The RBCM began publishing in 1891, when then-curator John Fannin published a Check List of British Columbia Birds. The museum has produced thousands of books, papers, pamphlets and other documents about its collections, research and activities since that time. Beginning in 1993, the RBCM distributes through major Canadian distributors, including the University of British Columbia Press and Heritage Distributors. The museum publishes around four titles per year and has more than forty books in print. Recent titles include: br Arima, Eugene and Alan Hoover
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Charles F. Newcombe


of the local natives in their hunt for Northwest Coast artifacts. Newcombe acquired many totem poles for the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the British Museum, Kew Gardens, and museums in Cambridge, Liverpool and Sydney. In 1904, he went with six Vancouver Island First Nations people and their medicine man to the World's Fair held in St. Louis to show their crafts and culture. Newcombe also conducted biological and geographic research, such as on local (British Columbia) mollusks and paleontology. In
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well as international exhibits Guangzhou, China. On March 26, 2012, Jack Lohman was appointed CEO of the Royal BC Museum. Various groups assist with the development, success, and maintenance of the Royal BC Museum. These include volunteers, who number over 500 and outnumber the Royal BC Museum staff 4 to 1; the Royal BC Museum Foundation (formerly Friends of the Royal BC Museum Foundation), a non-profit organization created in 1970 to support the Royal BC Museum financially and to assist its work by forming links
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Monarchy in British Columbia


Council by Queen Victoria and continued an unbroken line of monarchical government extending back to the late 18th century. However, though British Columbia has a separate government headed by the Queen, as a province, British Columbia is not itself a kingdom. Government House in Victoria is owned by the sovereign only in her capacity as Queen in Right of British Columbia and used as an official residence by both the lieutenant governor and the sovereign and other members of the Canadian Royal Family will reside there when in British Columbia. Members of the Royal
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Royal College of Physicians


would have been used by physicians when treating patients, mostly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collections are open to the general public Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm. The Royal College of Physicians is a member of the London Museums of Health & Medicine. The archive collections date back to the foundation of the Royal College of Physicians in 1518 and include the original Royal charter granted by King Henry VIII. The activities of the college are preserved in official minutes and other institutional records dating from the 16th century to
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Park Royal Shopping Centre


Park Royal Shopping Centre, opened in 1950, is a shopping mall located in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Park Royal is officially Canada's first covered shopping mall. Park Royal currently markets itself as five star shopping and has undergone significant changes to attain this. The shopping centre was originally anchored by Woodward's. The Centre was started alongside the Guinness family's British Properties developments nearby, and was named after the London suburb of Park Royal where a Guinness brewery stood. The Guinnesses sold it in 1986. The
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Royal British Columbia Museum


: Invasive Animals and Plants in British Columbia". Victoria: Royal BC Museum, 2015. Ward, Phillip R. "Keeping the Past Alive". Victoria: Friends of the BCPM, 1974.br Ward, Phillip R. "Getting the Bugs Out." Victoria, Friends of the BCPM, 1976.br Ward, Philip R. "In Support of Difficult Shapes". Victoria: Friends of the BCPM, 1978.br White, Bob. "Bannock and Beans: A Cowboy's Account of the Bedaux Expedition". Victoria: RBCM, 2009.br
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Marton Museum


a permanent museum to house the collection. The resulting Marton Museum subsequently opened its doors in Samobor, a town located on the outskirts of Zagreb. The official opening was held on May 18, 2003, a date which coincided with that year's International Museum Day. The museum has held numerous exhibitions throughout Croatia and has also exhibited internationally. In June 2008, the Marton Museum held its first exhibition on British soil at the Croatian Embassy in downtown London. In February 2009 the Marton Museum went on to exhibit selected pieces at
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Wilson Duff


Duff obtained a B.A. from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1949 and a master's in anthropology in 1951 from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he studied with Erna Gunther. His master's thesis was based on fieldwork with the Salish people of the Fraser River in B.C. He collaborated with Charles E. Borden in 1952 to develop the Borden System for archeological site designations. He served as Curator of Anthropology at the British Columbia Provincial Museum (later known as the Royal British Columbia Museum or RBCM) in Victoria
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a Coal Miner". Victoria: RBCM, 2002.br Keddie, Grant. "Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders (1790–1912)". Victoria: RBCM, 2003.br Lambert, Philip. "Sea Cucumbers of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound". Victoria: RBCM, 1997.br Lambert, Philip. "Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound". Victoria: RBCM, 2000.br Lohman, Jack. "Museums at the Crossroads? Essays on Cultural Institutions in a
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Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment


August 1858. The Engineers were believed to exemplify the qualities sought by the Government. Moody and his family arrived in British Columbia in December 1858, commanding the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment. He was sworn in as the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia and appointed Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia. On the advice of Lytton, Moody hired Robert Burnaby as his personal secretary, and the two became close friends. Moody's letter to his friend Arthur Blackwood Esq. at the Colonial Office, dated February
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New Westminster


main feature of the New Westminster Museum and Archives (NWMA) is the 1865 Irving House, which is said to be the oldest intact house in the BC Lower Mainland. In the museum are treasures such as the 1876 coach used by Lord Dufferin, then the Governor General of Canada, to tour the new province of British Columbia including Barkerville via the Cariboo Road. The city's archives hold corporate and personal treasures such as 1859 maps of the city drawn by the Royal Engineers and official city records. Other heritage artifacts in
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Bud Kerr Baseball Museum


The Budd Kerr Baseball Museum is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada inside Nat Bailey Stadium, the home of the Vancouver Canadiens. The museum, which opened on June 18, 2008, is dedicated to the more than sixty years of baseball that have been played in that stadium. The museum is named for Budd Kerr, the team's official historian until his death in 2009, and celebrates the players who have spent some of their careers there including: Rich Harden, Sammy Sosa, and Tim Raines, who helped
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Victoria, British Columbia


dozens of concerts at the Cameron Band Shell in Beacon Hill Park. The extensive system of parks in Victoria also includes a few areas of natural Garry oak meadow habitat, an increasingly scarce ecosystem that once dominated the region. In the heart of downtown are the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, The Empress Hotel, Victoria Police Department Station Museum, the gothic Christ Church Cathedral, and the Royal British Columbia Museum/IMAX National Geographic Theatre, with large exhibits on local Aboriginal peoples, natural history, and modern history, along with travelling
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Tzeporah Berman


included in the Royal British Columbia Museum permanent exhibit of “150 people who have changed the face of British Columbia.” In 2015 Berman served on the British Columbia Governments Climate Leadership Team and was appointed in 2016 to serve on the Alberta Governments Oil Sands Advisory Group as Co-Chair. Berman was listed of one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of British Columbia. Berman grew up in London, Ontario, the third of four siblings in
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Columbia River Maritime Museum


The Columbia River Maritime Museum is a museum of maritime history in the northwest United States, located about southeast of the mouth of the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon. It has a national reputation for the quality of its exhibits and the scope of its collections and was the first museum in Oregon to meet national accreditation standards. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. It is the official state maritime museum for Oregon. The museum opened in August 1963 in the Old Astoria City Hall and in 1982 it moved
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Hastings Mill Park


was originally owned by the Provincial Government. The building that hosts the museum was originally the Hastings Mill Store, the first general store erected in Vancouver in 1865 by British Captain Edward Stamp’s British Columbia and Vancouver Island Spar, Lumber and Sawmill Company. This building was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1886 and was moved from the burrard inlet by barge to its current location at the foot of Alma Street by the Native Daughters of British Columbia. The museum was officially dedicated as a museum of B.C.
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Oak Bay, British Columbia


was destroyed by fire in 1929, the Victoria Cougars are today the Detroit Red Wings. The Oak Bay Marina was built in 1962 and officially opened in April 1964. It replaced the Oak Bay Boat House built in 1893. The breakwater was built in 1959 and funded by the federal government. There have reportedly been sightings of a sea monster known as the Cadborosaurus off Oak Bay, with modern-day accounts and ones dating back to first nations accounts. During the 1930s, Oak Bay, British Columbia was the original "
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Monarchy in British Columbia


Examples include the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, which, along with the Vancouver Rowing Club and the Vancouver Racquets Club, is under the patronage of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the Royal British Columbia Museum, which received its "royal" prefix from Queen Elizabeth II in 1987. The main symbol of the monarchy is the sovereign herself, her image (in portrait or effigy) thus being used to signify government authority. A royal cypher, crown, or the provincial arms (known as the "Arms of Her
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British Columbia Provincial Police


municipal police services across the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island. The British Columbia Provincial Police was dissolved on August 15, 1950, and replaced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's "E" Division. The British Columbia Provincial Police was established in 1858, with the responsibility of policing the newly-formed Colony of British Columbia, the westernmost mainland territory of British North America on the Pacific coast. The official founding of the BCPP is considered to be the appointment of Chartres Brew as the Gold commissioner of British Columbia, which
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Rolls-Royce Phantom V


Phantom V in 1968. In 1977 Lennon donated the yellow Phantom V to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum at the Smithsonian Institution to cover an IRS problem. The Cooper-Hewitt sold the car in 1985 for $2,299,000 to a Canadian businessman and since 1993 it has been in the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada. Notable Phantom V owners included Queen Elizabeth II and her mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Those owned by Elizabeth II were official state cars, adapted for that purpose with a flag staff and illuminated heraldic
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Yorkshire Museum


museum is called the Yorkshire Museum; it was designed by William Wilkins in a Greek Revival style and is a Grade I listed building. It was officially opened in February 1830, which makes it one of the longest established museums in England. A condition of the royal grant was that the land surrounding the museum building should be a botanic gardens and one was created in the 1830s. The botanic gardens are now known as the Museum Gardens. On 26 September 1831, the inaugural meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of
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Royal Canadian Navy


anchor or. Motto: "PARATI VERO PARATI" The history of Royal Canadian Navy is preserved and presented at the Maritime Command Museum in Halifax, the Canadian War Museum, the Naval Museum of Alberta, the Naval Museum of Manitoba, the naval museums at Naval Reserve Headquarters in Quebec City and at CFB Esquimalt as well as the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. Several Royal Canadian Navy ships and submarines have been preserved including the destroyer , the hydrofoil HMCS "Bras d'Or" and the submarines and . The corvette HMCS "Sackville
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Jack Lohman


Jack Lohman (born 23 May 1958) CBE, born Jacek Lohman, is Chief Executive of the Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada. He is President of the Canadian Museums Association, a member of the Board of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the City of Warsaw Museum. He is also a Board member of the British Columbia Achievement Foundation. Jack Lohman holds an honours degree in art history from the University of East Anglia and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Manchester. He was awarded scholarships to study architecture
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Royal British Columbia Museum


, Tony Hunt and Richard Hunt. An exhibit of artist Bill Reid's argillite carvings are also available for viewing. The gallery has been criticized by indigenous scholars for its portrayal of First Nations people, and its use of controversial images and film from Edward Curtis. In 2010, many of the museum's Nisga'a artifacts were returned to the Nisga'a people and now reside in the Nisga'a Museum in northwestern British Columbia. The Modern History gallery on the third floor (12,524 sq. ft.) begins with "Century Hall,"
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Government Street (Victoria, British Columbia)


Government Street is a major road in Victoria, British Columbia. The street runs from an intersection with Douglas Street, which it runs parallel with, all the way through downtown Victoria. It terminates at Dallas Road. Government Street is popular with tourists as many tourist attractions, such as the British Columbia Parliament Buildings, The Fairmont Empress, Royal British Columbia Museum, and Inner Harbour, are located along the road. There are also many restaurants, hotels, and shops along it. 207 Government Street is the location of the
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British Columbia Archives


The British Columbia Provincial Archives are located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The BC Archives merged with the Royal BC Museum in 2003. The BC Archives contain the archives of the British Columbia government, and are valuable for both research and preservation activities. The BC archives have been archiving significant artifacts, documents, and records since 1894, including private historical manuscripts, maps, and government records. There is also a research library in the archives. Of note, the BC Archives website contains research guides to assist those interested
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Industry on British Columbia’s North Coast, 1870-2005". Victoria: RBCM, 2006.br Savard, Dan. "Images from the Likeness House". Victoria: RBCM, May 2010.br Sherwood, Jay. "Furrows in the Sky : The Adventures of Gerry Andrews ". Victoria: RBCM, April 2012.br Sherwood, Jay. "Return to Northern British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1929-39". Victoria: RBCM, September 2010.br Sherwood, Jay. "Surveying Central British Columbia A Photojournal of Frank
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Michael Audain


Simeon to name a few. In September 2012, Michael Audain was invited to Whistler, British Columbia to discuss establishing a museum for his family collection. Less than a year after his visit, the 56,000-square-foot Audain Art Museum building designed by Patkau Architects commenced construction on land donated by the Resort Municipality of Whistler for a 199-year lease. Adjacent to Whistler Village the Museum officially opened to the public on March 12, 2016 and houses a portion of the Audain Collection, a gallery dedicated to 15 works by E.J Hughes CM
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Museum of Anthropology at UBC


museum is at 6393 NW Marine Dr, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. MOA and UBC lie on the University Endowment Lands, which are not officially part of the City of Vancouver. The University Endowment Lands are located on unceded Musqueam Territory. The Museum's beginnings lie in the University of British Columbia's acquisition of the Frank Burnett Collection in 1927. These works, in addition to two important Musqueam house posts that were acquired and donated by the UBC graduating class of 1927, a number of salvaged totem
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Richard Cannings (British Columbia politician)


five on the B.C. Forest Appeals Commission. He was a board member of the Nature Conservancy of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Cannings authored or contributed to numerous books. In 1987 he co-authored with his brothers "Birds of the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia" which was published by the Royal British Columbia Museum. Based on previous work, he co-authored "Birds of Southwestern British Columbia" and "Birds of Interior BC and the Rockies" In 2007 Greystone Books published a memoir style book of essays by Cannings
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Simon Fraser University


holds many exhibits on lease from the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria. The exhibits are created by students as part of the museum studies courses offered in the Department of Archaeology. Archaeological collections arising from excavations and other research by faculty, staff and students are also housed in the museum. The SFU Library's Digital Collections provide internet access to digitized documents from a number of archival collections, such as Harrison Brown's Xi'an Incident collection, and the history of British Columbia and Western Canada in general, including documents from the Doukhobor
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Canadian Pacific Railway


were the semi-streamlined H1 class Royal Hudsons, locomotives that were given their name because one of their class hauled the royal train carrying King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on the 1939 royal tour across Canada without change or failure. That locomotive, No. 2850, is preserved in the Exporail exhibit hall of the Canadian Railway Museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec. One of the class, No. 2860, was restored by the British Columbia government and used in excursion service on the British Columbia Railway between 1974 and 1999
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National Museum (Maldives)


the Maldivian Royal Palace compound dating back to the 17th century. The two-storey "Us-gēkolhu" is the only remaining structure of the palace demolished by fire in 1968. The new building of the museum is also located in Sultan Park. The building was designed, built and financed by the Chinese government. The building was presented to the Maldives by the Chinese government on 10 July 2010, but was officially opened and declared as the national museum two weeks later on Maldives' Independence Day, 26 July 2010.
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John Shackleton


George III. He continued to be paid for portraits of the king and queen up even during 1765–6, when their "official" portraits were being done by Allan Ramsay. Several examples of his and his studio's output of royal portraits survive – one of George II dated 1755 is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh; another of George II in Room 2 of the British Museum, London (commissioned by the museum in 1759 – the Museum also holds engravings after his paintings), along with two more of George
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Royal British Columbia Museum


researchers and Victoria-based RBCM curators. The events featured exhibits from the RBCM's permanent collections as well as "illustrated talks and demonstrations on a variety of topics by local and museum experts." Initially, "Living Landscapes" focused on "in-field programming has been the northern, central and southern interior of British Columbia." In March 2006, when they had successfully completed the Northwest region, they discontinued the in-field programming. The Exhibition Arts department began in the early 1970s, and now construct all
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British Museum


Cotton, dating back to Elizabethan times, and the Harleian Library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford. They were joined in 1757 by the "Old Royal Library", now the Royal manuscripts, assembled by various British monarchs. Together these four "foundation collections" included many of the most treasured books now in the British Library including the Lindisfarne Gospels and the sole surviving manuscript of "Beowulf". The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king,
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Pat Courtney Gold


Pat Courtney Gold (b. 1939) is a Wasco Native basket weaver from the Columbia River area of Oregon. She is a 2007 NEA National Heritage Fellow. She graduated with a BA in mathematics and physics from Whitman College and worked as a mathematician-computer specialist before beginning her career in basket weaving. Her artwork is on show in various museums including the High Desert Museum, Royal British Columbia Museum, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She was featured in
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Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II


Queen was passed. The Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba held a Diamond Jubilee garden party at the province's Government House on 26 May. The Royal British Columbia Museum on 1 June opened an exhibition of approximately 100 Cecil Beaton photographs of Elizabeth II throughout her life. A team of Canadian and British mountaineers reached the summit of Mount Barbeau, in Canada's arctic, by 3 June and there held a tea party in celebration of the jubilee. From the summit, they sent a loyal greeting to the Queen via satellite, to which the
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Rubus parviflorus


color. A double-flowered form of the thimbleberry was discovered near Squamish, British Columbia by Iva Angerman (1903–2008) of West Vancouver. This clone does not appear to be in commerce, but is grown in the Botanic Garden of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and in the Native Plant Garden of the Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. Many parts of the plant were used in folk medicine by Native Americans. A tea made from its leaves or roots was thought to be a treatment for wounds, burns
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Royal British Columbia Museum


, T. Christopher. "Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 1996.br Cannings, Robert A. "Introducing the Dragonflies of British Columbia and the Yukon". Victoria: RBCM, 2002.br Cannings, Robert A. "The Systematics of Lasiopogon (Diptera: Asilidae)". Victoria: RBCM, 2002.br Carr, Emily. "Sister and I from Victoria to London". Victoria: RBCM, April 2011.br Carr, Emily. "Wild Flowers". Victoria: RBCM, 2006.br Copley, Claudia and Ann Nightingale
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Royal British Columbia Museum


peoples of BC. Collecting anthropological artifacts has been a practice of the Royal BC Museum since its founding in 1886. Currently, a significant amount of artifacts from the human history department are being repatriated to First Nations groups. The Human History department is responsible for representing the material cultural history of BC. This division of the Human History department houses over 192 000 artifacts. The Royal BC Museum holds the largest collection of First Nations archaeological material from BC. The ethnology collection at the Royal BC Museum contains over 14 000 indigenous artifacts
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Royal tours of Canada by the Canadian Royal Family


returned to Canada until 4 June 1882, although rumors of a Fenian plot against her forced her to remain in the Citadelle of Quebec, a military installation used by the Canadian militia, and the secondary residence for the Monarch, and the Governor General. On 30 August, Lorne and Louise set out for an official tour of British Columbia, visiting Victoria, and meeting with a First Nations delegation in New Westminster. Louise remained in Victoria as Lorne continued with the official tour into the British Columbia Interior. They remained in the
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Royal tours of Canada by the Canadian Royal Family


role as patron of the Princess Margaret Hospital. Official tours include tours of Nova Scotia and British Columbia in 1958. In BC, the princess opened the new floating bridge in Kelowna, with two plaques marking the ceremony. She also presided over the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Saskatchewan's entry into Confederation. Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy had conducted three official tours of Canada, as well as four private working tours of the country from 1951 to 2000. She toured Canada for its centenary in 1967, and also
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Kermode bear


ranges from Princess Royal Island to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, on the coast and inland toward Hazelton, British Columbia. It is known in the Tsimshianic languages as In the February 2006 Speech from the Throne by the Government of British Columbia, the Lieutenant Governor announced the government's intention to designate the Kermode, or spirit bear, as British Columbia's official animal. It was adopted as such in April of that year. A male Kermode bear can reach or more, females are much smaller with a maximum weight of .
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Government House (British Columbia)


by the British Columbia Government House Foundation, a charitable, non-profit organisation that was in 1987 established by Lieutenant Governor Robert Gordon Rogers, along with his Council at the time. The foundation is mandated to oversee the maintenance of Government House's property and all the structures on it; the acquisition, either on loan or permanently, of British Columbia artworks for display in the royal residence; the management of official gifts to the lieutenant governor or monarch in right of British Columbia; and public awareness of Government House, its
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Kermode bear


The Kermode bear ("Ursus americanus kermodei"), also known as the spirit bear (particularly in British Columbia), is a rare subspecies of the American black bear living in the Central and North Coast regions of British Columbia, Canada. It is the official provincial mammal of British Columbia. While most Kermode bears are black, there are between 100 and 500 fully white individuals. The white variant is most common on three islands in British Columbia (Gribbell, Princess Royal, and Roderick), where 10–20% of
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Army Flying Museum


The Army Flying Museum, previously known as the Museum of Army Flying, is a British military aviation museum about the history of flying in the British Army. It is located beside the Army Air Corps Centre in Middle Wallop, close to Andover in Hampshire, England. The museum covers the history of Army aviation from the Balloon sections of the Royal Engineers, through the establishment of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 and Air Observation Post (AOP) Squadrons. It brings the story up to date with the establishment of the Army
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British Columbia Archives


. Also included in the archives are papers concerning the Trutch family, Ida Halpern, Clement Francis Cornwall, and BC premiers Dave Barrett and Thomas Dufferin Pattullo. In the spring of 2012, the Sisters of St. Ann announced the decision to place their collection of historical and religious artifacts and documents under the stewardship of the Royal BC Museum. Their collection dates back to 1858, and includes over 100 000 photographs, 500 pieces of art, and 1 000 000 archival records. Since the mid-nineteenth century, The Sisters of
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James Bay, Greater Victoria


and Amelia Douglas stood on the location of the present Royal British Columbia Museum, behind which is located the house of John Sebastian Helmcken, the colony's first doctor, speaker of the Assembly, and son-in-law of the governor. The Victorian Italianate childhood home of Canadian artist Emily Carr, built in 1863, stands on Government Street, formerly known as Carr Street, in an area of numerous mainly modest wooden homes that date to the later decades of the nineteenth century. Grander homes in James Bay include the
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Royal British Columbia Museum


within the community; Security Services, responsible for risk management, emergency response, security services, and business continuity expertise; and Property Management and Operations, who focus on sustainability, recycling, and environment control within the museum. The BC Government founded the Royal BC Museum in 1886 in response to a petition from prominent citizens who were concerned about the loss of British Columbian natural products and native artifacts. Judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, Charles Semlin, William Fraser Tolmie, and former Premier George A. Walkem were amongst those who wanted to
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Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum


The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum is the official interpretive center and history museum about the Columbia River Gorge located on in The Dalles, Oregon. Opened in 1997, the Center features exhibits about the area's geology, Ice Age prehistory, Native American culture and basketry, exploration by Lewis and Clark and others on the Oregon Trail, settlement, transportation and natural history. The Wasco County Historical Museum is a 17,200 square-foot exhibit wing which tells the history of the people of Wasco County, Oregon. The Center also
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Thunderbird Park (Victoria, British Columbia)


Thunderbird Park is a park in Victoria, British Columbia next to the Royal British Columbia Museum. The park is home to many totem poles (mostly Gitxsan, Haida, and Kwakwaka'wakw) and other First Nation monuments. The park takes its name from the mythological Thunderbird of Indigenous North American cultures which is depicted on many totem poles. Also in the park are St. Anne's Schoolhouse (built 1844), Helmcken House (built in 1852 by Dr. John Helmcken), and Mungo Martin House ("Wawadit'la"), a
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Royal British Columbia Museum


. "The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery ". Victoria: RBCM, November 2011.br Austin, William C, and Philip Lambert. "Brittle Stars, Sea Urchins and Feather Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and Puget Sound". Victoria: RBCM, 2007. br Beal, Alison M, David F. Hatler, and David W. Nagorsen. "Carnivores of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, October 2008.br Black, Martha. "Out of the Mist: Treasures of the Nuu
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Royal British Columbia Museum


Patrick T. Gregory, and Brent M. Matsuda. "Amphibians and Reptiles of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 2006. Griffin, Robert and Nancy Oke. "Feeding the Family: 100 Years of Food and Drink in Victoria". Victoria: RBCM, May 2011. br Guppy, Crispin S and Jon H. Shepard. "Butterflies of British Columbia". Victoria: RBCM, 2001.br Hebda, Richard J. and Nancy J. Turner. "Saanich Ethnobotany : Culturally Important Plants of the WSÁNEC People". Victoria: RBCM
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Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park


and Wyoming. Small collections of fossils are housed in the Bulkley Valley Museum in Smithers and by the BC Parks office in Smithers, the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN), the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture in Seattle WA, and university collections. Significant collections of fossils from Driftwood Canyon are in private ownership. The cessation of fossil collecting at Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park is consistent with British Columbia's new Fossil Management Framework which seeks to
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum


items representing over 2,000 species of vertebrates – 18,000 mammals from 540 species, 17,500 birds and 7,000 bird eggs, and 1,600 reptiles and amphibians – making it the second largest collection of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians in British Columbia. The museum holds extensive, representative samples of nearly all species – and most subspecies – of British Columbia's terrestrial vertebrates and marine mammals. The collection includes older specimens dating back to 1849, as well as rare specimens such as the red panda, the endangered Vancouver Island marmot, and even
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Royal Westminster Regiment


Canadian Army Cadets units spread across British Columbia which are affiliated with The Royal Westminster Regiment. Cadet units affiliated to The Royal Westminster Regiment receive support and also are entitled to wear traditional regimental accoutrements on their uniforms. The museum acquires, identifies, preserves and exhibits a permanent collection of military artifacts and memorabilia from the experience of the Regiment and its antecedents. The museum encourages within the community, a realization of the contribution to the community and the nation made by the Regiment and its antecedents. The museum`s goal is to imbue a
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Royal British Columbia Museum


of the Royal BC Museum exhibits in-house. The department is responsible for maintaining the permanent galleries and constructing the exhibitions, as well as setting them up and taking them down. The Exhibition Arts department is made up of specialists with a variety of skill sets, including carpenters, blacksmiths, metal workers, welders, and people who specialize in casting, finishing, jewellery, multimedia, lighting, large format printing, and software and hardware computation. The museum is affiliated with: CMA, CHIN, and Virtual Museum of
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Susan Point


she joined a group of artists interested in reviving the traditions of Coast Salish art and design, including artists such as Stan Greene, Rod Modeste, and Floyd Joseph. Little research had been done on Salish art, so Point taught herself the Salish traditions. She studied the collections of Coast Salish art at the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology and the Royal British Columbia Museum. There is broad agreement that Point's works were critical to the current efflorescence of contemporary Coast Salish art. She was a leader in expanding
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Victoria Harbour (British Columbia)


dugout canoe . They stopped in Victoria before setting out across the Pacific Ocean and reached London in 1904. Nowadays "Tilikum" may be seen on exhibit at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria. In 1905 the British Columbia Electric Railway opened Gorge Park along the Gorge Waterway. The electric streetcar system was abandoned in 1948 and the park was donated to Esquimalt in 1955. After the 1914 opening of the Panama Canal the city of Victoria sought to increase ship traffic to the harbour and built the breakwater and Ogden Point piers
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Beaty Biodiversity Museum


The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Its of collections and exhibit space were first opened to the public on October 16, 2010; since then it has received over 35,000 visitors per year. Its collections include over two million specimens collected between the 1910s and the present, comprising the Cowan Tetrapod Collection, the Marine Invertebrate Collection, the Fossil Collection, the Herbarium, the Spencer Entomological Collection, and the Fish Collection.
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BC Sports Hall of Fame


, Rick Hansen and Greg Moore. As well, the museum features several multi-sport galleries including a gallery on Aboriginal sport, the BC professional sports teams, the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, and "In Her Footsteps", a gallery focused on women in sport. The BC Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1966 by Eric Whitehead and other groups of sports-minded individuals in British Columbia. In August of that year the Hall officially opened in the BC Pavilion on the Pacific National Exhibition grounds. In
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Royal Air Force Museum Cosford


The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford, located in Cosford in Shropshire, is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular. The museum is part of the Royal Air Force Museum, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and a registered charity. The museum is spread over two sites in England; the other site is at the Royal Air Force Museum London at Colindale (near Hendon) in north London. The London museum was officially opened at the Colindale (then
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Royal British Columbia Museum


2000 the focus of "Living Landscapes" was on the Upper Fraser Basin, a "vast area extending across most of south-central British Columbia including the Fraser River valley upstream from Big Bar Creek, as well as it is tributary drainages such as the Chilcotin, Quesnel, and Nechako Rivers." During 2001-2002 RBCM hosted five Upper Fraser Basin communities including, Valemount, British Columbia, Burns Lake, Williams Lake, Quesnel and Prince George attended by approximately 4,500 people. Visitors met and interacted with local Living Landscapes
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Timeline of golf history (1851–1945)


shot from Gene Sarazen. Henry Cotton wins his first British Open, at Royal St. George's, and shoots a 65 in his second round, a feat that was commemorated by the "Dunlop 65" golf ball. Sid Brews, winner of the South African, French and Dutch Opens in 1934, enjoys his best finish at a British Open, in second place. The official U.S. PGA Tour is created, built around events like the major championships, Western Open and Los Angeles Opens which pre-dated it. Paul
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MAXXI


. It was built on the site of a former military barracks, the Caserma Montello, incorporating parts of it. The museum took more than ten years to build, and opened to the public in 2010. It received the Stirling Prize for architecture of the Royal Institute of British Architects in the same year. "The Guardian" has called the MAXXI building "Hadid's finest built work to date" and "a masterpiece fit to sit alongside Rome's ancient wonders". MAXXI consists of two museums: "MAXXI art
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Surrendered Enemy Personnel


Surrendered Enemy Personnel (SEP) is a designation for captive enemy soldiers (similar to Disarmed Enemy Forces). It was most commonly used by British forces towards German forces in Europe, and towards Japanese and associated forces in Asia after the end of World War II. On March 1, 1947 the U.S. stated that the SEPs should be regarded as POW's and be treated in accordance with the Geneva conventions. The designation of SEP allowed the Royal Navy to use the German command structure to facilitate the disbandment of the Kriegsmarine.
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Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)


, commanding the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment. He was sworn in as the first Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia and appointed Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for British Columbia. On the advice of Lytton, Moody hired Robert Burnaby as his personal secretary, and the two became close friends. Moody's letter to his friend Arthur Blackwood Esq. at the Colonial Office, dated 1 February 1859, contains several passages of sublime poetical description that demonstrate the qualities for which he was preferred. The Detachment under Moody consisted of 150
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Virtual tour


laserdisc based system designed by British-based engineer Colin Johnson. One of the first users of a virtual tour was Queen Elizabeth II, when she officially opened the visitor centre in June 1994. Because the Queen's officials had requested titles, descriptions and instructions of all activities, the system was named and described as: "Virtual Tour, being a cross between Virtual Reality and Royal Tour." Details of the original project can be viewed online. The system was featured in a conference held by the British Museum in November
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Richard Clement Moody


roughing it in the bush' relative to living in England. The Royal British Columbia Museum possesses a trove of 42 letters written by Mary Moody from various colonies of the British Empire, mostly from the Colony of British Columbia (1858–66), to her mother and her sister, Emily Hawks, in England. Mary Moody was highly literate, having been tutored in literature, penmanship, and French, and her letters have been of great interest to scholars studying the perspective of the British ruling class in the colonies of the British
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Hawks family


and daughter of Sir William Chaytor of Croft. Joseph's daughter, Mary Susannah Hawks, married Richard Clement Moody, the founder of British Columbia. Her 13 children included Josephine 'Zeffie' Moody, who married Arthur Newall, son of Robert Stirling Newall, a close business associate of the Hawks family, Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody, and Colonel Henry de Clervaulx Moody. Richard Clement Moody named the 400-foot hill in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, "Mary Hill" after his wife, Mary. The Royal British Columbia Museum
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Sultan Abdul Aziz Royal Gallery


building as the land and administration office. During the Japanese rule of Malaya, it was used as war headquarter. After the independence of Malaya in 1957, it was used as Klang District office. The museum was initially opened in 1988 as the Memorial Museum (). The gallery was officiated on 19 October 2007 by Sultan Sharafuddin. The museum is housed in a two-story building which was designed by British architect Arthur Benison Hubback. The gallery displays the history and heritage of Sultanate of Selangor since 1766 from more than
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RAAF Wagga Heritage Centre


reopening in 2009. The Air Force would spend 75,000 completing the refurbishment of the museum building, due to be complete in 2009 sometime. In May 2009, a public consultation meeting was held to discuss plans for the centre, including the A$130,000 set aside by the Royal Australian Air Force for outfitting the building for a future heritage display. On 12 March 2010, it was reported that the heritage centre was expected to reopen in Spring 2010, but the official opening date was to be announced at a later date. On
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The Ultimate Fighter 4


(Original Air Date Sep 7, 2006) Episode 5: Flip-A-Coin (Original Air Date Sep 14, 2006) Episode 6: Captain Miserable (Original Air Date Sep 21, 2006) Episode 7: Drop to a Knee (Original Air Date Sep 28, 2006) Episode 8: True Colors (Original Air Date Oct 6, 2006) Episode 9: Semi-Final Match-Ups (Original Air Date Oct 12, 2006) Episode 10: Carter vs. Serra (Original Air Date Oct 19
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Compulsory sterilization in Canada


) 1904- New mental hospital opened in Coquitlam, British Columbia 1925- British Columbia Royal Commission on Mental Hygiene report. 1927-"Canadian Medical Association Journal" publishes the editorial "Eugenics and the Medical Profession" 1928- George Godwin's "Columbia, or the Future of Canada" is published in the "To-day and To-morrow" Series 1933- British Columbia passes "An Act respecting Sexual Sterilization" 1945- Essondale Report released 1948- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide 1950- British Columbia's Provincial Hospital for the Insane is renamed Woodlands School
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