The Courtenay and District Museum will celebrate Canada Day with an open house from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm on Monday, July 1st. Guests are welcome to enjoy live music by Alan Jossul, enter to win a door prize, and try their hand at kids’ crafts.
Starting next Saturday, from June 22nd to August 24th, the museum will be hosting a Summer Kids Craft event every Saturday from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Join our Kids Craft Coordinator, Hannah, as she guides youth and parents through the steps to make new weekly creations you can take home. The museum will provide all the materials and tools needed, and donations for the event will be put towards more supplies and designs for the next installment.
June 21st marks National Indigenous Peoples Day, and the Comox Valley will have no shortage of events and activities to celebrate this important day.
June 14th - 16th marks the 39th anniversary of Miners Memorial in Cumberland. Every year since 1986 community members, organizers, activists, historians, musicians, families and the labour community have come together to commemorate the sacrifices of workers around the world and right here in Cumberland.
The George and Jane Grieve home. Standing left to right: Berkeley (son), George, Jane, and Sadie Grant (granddaughter). In the buggy are Reverend Thomas and Abigail Menzies, c. 1905. Photographed by Walter Gage.
Grieve Avenue and some of the family history behind its namesake are the feature for this month.
Our gift shop is pleased to announce a spread of brand new journals hitting the shelves this month, in a fabulous variety of colours and sizes. The small journals are available for $14.95, while the largest are $22.75.
Over 300 grandmothers from Canada and six countries in sub-Saharan Africa have created this stunning quilt to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and to raise awareness of the African grandmothers affected by the HIV epidemic.
Grant Sawmill, Union, c. 1880s. Photographed by E.C. Brooks of Victoria, B.C.
Local historian Dorothy Isabelle Stubbs (1905-2003) wrote several different columns for newspapers over the years including “Spotlight on Courtenay Streets” for the Comox District Free Press in 1970.
