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Page 8 West Vancouver Historical Society April 1999 West Vancouver ^S2 MUSEUM & ARCHIVES CORNER Museum News - Discovering Heritage Museum&Archives The Museum is expanding its public and heritage programming this year. This season we are offering Heritage Tours of local sites. Our first program is an overnight trip to Yale, B.C., the site where Gold Fever first hit this province. Next, we are going on a day-trip to Seattle where we will have a guided tour of one of the best museum collections in the Northwest. Then a brand new offering, a trip to VanDusen Botanical Garden for their sixth annual Flower and Garden Show in June. This year's show promises to be very interesting, as the theme "Gardens Go Global" offers endless possibilities. Finally, the last scheduled trip for the summer, a First Nations Heritage tour, will have us visiting Quadra Island and staying overnight at the beautiful Tsa-Kwa-Luten Lodge. Throughout the summer we will be offering the popular Seniors Teas and Tours and a photography program for kids. The Museum will also be very busy providing programs for Community Day and preparing for the Harmony Arts Festival. But our most exciting summer event will be July 1st, Canada Day, when the Museum will celebrate its 5th Birthday! Come join the festivities as we celebrate this very important day. _______________________ Calendar of Events April 24-25 Yale, B.C. Heritage Tour May 13 Seattle Art Museum Trip June 4 VanDusen Botanical Garden, Flower & Garden Show June 5 Community Day June 14-15 First Nations Heritage Tour Julyl Canada Day - the Museum is 5 years old today! For more information regarding these and other events, call Linda at 925-7297 New Duties for our Society Directors Congratulations to two of our directors. Ian Macdonald has been appointed to the West Vancouver Parks & Recreation Advisory Commission. Mia Bonettemaker has been elected to the West Vancouver Heritage Advisory Commission. GASLIGHTS TO GIGAWAHS At our last meeting, immediately before Preben's talk on archival history, Jim MacCarthy and Norman Olsen, on behalf of the BC Hydro Power Pioneers, presented the Society with a copy of a book, called Gaslights to Gigawatts. Beautifully crafted, the book "...brings to life the fascinating and largely unknown human story of BC Hydro and its predecessor companies. Using the oral history technique, the book covers 130 colorful years that changed the province." BC Hydro plays a very important part in our lives, (a fact underlined every time storms or accidents temporarily wipe out their service) but however much our lives are touched by them, what do we really know of Hydro's early history? Gaslights to Gigawatts will certainly remedy that! Based on reminiscences from many people who worked in the organisation, we are given history in its most interesting form, that of personal memory. 350 illustrations and photos, many previously unpublished, will take you back to earlier days in the province and on the North Shore. BC Hydro absorbed all production costs of the book, now available at bookstores across BC. (Selling at SaveOn Food stores and at Smith Books and at Coles Books at Park Royal). Priced at $37.25 with all proceeds from sales donated to Childrens' Hospital and the CKNW Orphans Fund.