New Exhibit: Broken Promises

This travelling exhibit from the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre presents stories of Japanese Canadian dispossession in the 1940s and the lasting impacts of the policies aimed at people of Japanese descent living in coastal British Columbia. This exhibit will be located in the upstairs Changing Exhibition Gallery.

2025-02-18T11:02:14-08:00February 18th, 2025|Categories: Museum Exhibit, Museum News|Comments Off on New Exhibit: Broken Promises

Answers to the Name of…

It's been 37 years since an elasmosaur was discovered in the Puntledge River. Today, there are over a dozen different genera and several species of elasmosaurs found worldwide, and the Comox Valley elasmosaur is now considered a completely new genus and species among them.

2025-02-03T14:59:13-08:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: Fossils, Museum News, Paleontology|Comments Off on Answers to the Name of…

Getting the Word Out: Pat Trask and the Elasmosaur

Check out Courtenay Museum Natural History Curator, Pat Trask, as he talks about the Comox Valley elasmosaur in a recent Instagram reel by the Government of BC. The museum would like to extend a huge thank you to Hayley Antonissen and her video production team for making this happen!

2025-02-03T14:29:57-08:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: Fossils, Museum News, Paleontology|Comments Off on Getting the Word Out: Pat Trask and the Elasmosaur

Victoria Arbour Lecture Wrap-Up

Dr. Victoria Arbour gave an engaging illustrated lecture on A New Look at the Dinosaurs of British Columbia to a full crowd in the museum’s Rotary Gallery on December 3. Her presentation centered on a dinosaur discovered on the Spateze Plateau in northern British Columbia, dated from about 68 million years ago: Ferrisaurus sustutensis, "the Iron Lizard of the Sustut River."

2025-01-29T22:42:07-08:00January 29th, 2025|Categories: Lectures, Museum Exhibit, Museum News|Comments Off on Victoria Arbour Lecture Wrap-Up
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