Time to Wonder - Volume 2: A Kid's Guide to BC's Regional Museums: Vancouver Island, Salt Spring, Alert Bay, and Haida Gwaii

by S. Lesley Buxton, Sue Harper

Overview

The second volume in a series of guidebooks designed for kids and families looking for museum adventures throughout British Columbia.

Go on… be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time to Wonder series give adventurous families a backstage pass to explore behind the scenes in regional museums throughout British Columbia.

Once again, all will be revealed with the help of dozens of colour photographs, regional maps, lists of activities, historical information, and interviews with a team of amazing experts who specialize in a variety of island locations off the coast of British Columbia. Whether families are experienced museumgoers or just curious about something new, this is a book they will read over and over.

Kids and families looking for a complete British Columbia museum journey should also check out Time to Wonder – Volume 1: A Kid’s Guide to BC’s Regional Museums: Thompson-Okanagan-Kootenay-Cariboo-Chilcotin, along with future volumes in the series, which will include Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, and the North Coast and Nechako.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771605076
Publisher:	Rocky Mountain Books
Publication date:	05/10/2022
Series:	Time to Wonder , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	158 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

S. Lesley Buxton studied acting at Mountview Theatre School in London, England, and has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lesley’s first book, One Strong Girl, won the inaugural Pottersfield Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in leading Canadian magazines and anthologies such as Love Me True, Today’s Parent, Reader’s Digest, This Magazine, Hazlitt, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. She is also the co-author, along with Sue Harper, of the books in the Time to Wonder series of family oriented guidebooks highlighting regional museums in British Columbia. Lesley lives in Penticton, British Columbia.
Sue Harper is a retired secondary school teacher who has a BSc in psychology, an MA in English Language and Literature, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax. She has published 10 educational textbooks for the Ontario secondary English curriculum and has written three titles targeting reluctant readers as part of The Ten series published by Scholastic. Her writing can also be found in a number of magazines, including NUVO, Okanagan Life, Okanagan Arts, Kelowna’s Daily Courier – Sunday Edition, and BC Food and Wine Trails. She is also the co-author, with S. Lesley Buxton, of the books in the Time to Wonder series of family oriented guidebooks highlighting regional museums in British Columbia. Sue lives in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Land Acknowledgements iv

Whose Voices are we Hearing? 1

The South, Victoria & Surrounds 3

Sooke Region Museum 4

Triangle Island Lighthouse 5

Cougar 6

Trophies from All Sooke Day 8

Craigdarroch Castle 10

Late 19th-century Black Forest Mantle Clock 11

Toy French Bulldog 12

Toy Soldier 14

Reproduction of an 1890s Stained Glass Window 16

Silver Earwax Spoon 18

Hand-Carved Miniature Bed 20

Point Ellice House Museum and Gardens 22

Albion French Range Stove 23

Mary Augusta's Painting 24

Blue and White Chamber Pot 26

Walking Tour 28

Historic Dandridge House 29

Fort Victoria Brick Project 30

Charles and Nancy Alexander, Brick No. 2232 32

Plaque 02 Black Migration 34

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs Commemorative Plaque 36

The Douglas Obelisk 38

The Maritime Museum of British Columbia 40

Dorothy, the Oldest Sailing Vessel in the Pacific Northwest 41

Dorothy's Bell 42

Wooden Rocking Cradle Resembling a Small Boat 44

BC Forest Discovery Centre 46

Old Faithful Steam Donkey 47

Schoolhouse 48

Logging Camp Cookhouse 50

Logging Camp Bunkhouse 52

Steam Locomotive 54

Filer's Shop (Dentist's Shop) 56

The Middle 59

Alberni Valley Museum 60

Emily Carr Painting of Sproat Lake, BC 61

Trapper Doll 62

Piika-uu (Decorative Basket) 64

Silver Tea Set 66

Ucluelet Aquarium 68

Giant Pacific Octopus 69

Sea Star 70

Chinook Salmon 72

Qualkum Beach Museum 74

Rosie the Ice Age Walrus 75

Jade Adze Blade 76

Branston Generator Hairdressing Tool 78

Cumberland Museum and Archives 80

Royston Baseball Jersey 81

Lydia Catherine (Kay) Finch's Piano 82

Union Pin 84

Museum at Campbell River 86

Cannery Tokens 87

Thunderbird Bear Pole 88

The Soyokaze 90

Kwawkseestahla/Quocksister Thunderbird 92

Floathouse 94

Dzunukwa Feast Dish 96

The North 99

The Whale Interpretive Centre 100

Steller Sea Lion 101

Northern Resident Killer Whale 102

T44 Bigg's Killer Whale 104

The Islands 107

Salt Spring Museum 108

Insulated Container 109

Delivery Boat 110

Willis's Reloader 112

U'mista Cultural Centre 114

Regalia 115

Bakwas Mask 116

Tlakwa Guwi 118

Dzunukwa Mask with Hands 120

Saahlinda Naay 122

SGuuluu Jaad (Foam Woman) 123

Kalga Jaad (Ice Woman) 124

Kuu Kaljuu Kas Skuujii (Fossilized Walrus Skull) 126

Jiila Kuns (Greatest Mountain) 128

Nang Kilsdlas (One Whose Voice Is Obeyed) 130

Xuuya Giixiida (Raven Rattle) 132

What Could I Do in a Museum? 134

Twenty Ways You Can Use This Book 147

Afterword 148

Acknowledgements 149

Glossary 150

Selected Sources 160

About the Authors 170

Index 171