Modern History Gallery

Stroll back through time more than 200 years, to when European explorers began the fur trade with coastal First Nations. The sights, sounds and smells of the past can be so vivid that you might - just for a moment - think you're really there.

		A replica of the stern section of Captain George Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery (1792-1794) as it may have appeared during its stay in Nootka Sound.
		The Cornish water wheel, used in the gold mines of British Columbia, pumped water from deep shafts and hoisted ore buckets (and miners) to the surface.
		The Tremblay family homestead depicts the harshness of pioneer farming in the Peace River District around 1912.
		The wood-block paving of this turn-of-the-century street leads to the Dominion Drapers Building (1903) and its fine stock of apparel.
		Herbalist shop in Chinatown.