The West Vancouver Museum stresses hands-on, interactive learning!

This year we are introducing all-new opportunities for elementary and high school students to discover and explore.

In-House Programs:

Fine Place to Live: The Early Days of West Vancouver
Grade 2-3

West Vancouver Pioneer John Lawson will visit your class and personally guide your students through an exciting hands-on program of what life was like in our town before electricity and the automobile.

Sea Walk Tours
Grade 4-10

Discover the unique human and natural history of West Vancouver's waterfront. Highlights of this fun interactive walking tour include plaque rubbings, a look at Greater Vancouver's oldest lived-in home and a hands on study of the first Narrows treacherous tides and currents.

Outreach Programs:

The Lighthouse
Grade: 4 -10

The fascinating story of Point Atkinson Lighthouse, BC's most recognizable lighthouse. Includes incredible stories of human survival, the development of the port of Vancouver and the effects of the Second World War. The former Capilano lighthouse will also be discussed.

Our Flag. Our Story
Grade: 4-10

Your students will probe into the artistic and political development of our national provincial and municipal flags and symbols in this fun creative program. Activities include copying and reproducing flags and crests based on items from the museum collection along with designing their own coat of arms.

The Walled City
Grade 4-10

West Vancouver's very own Barkerville -Your class will uncover the forgotten walled City- a look at the Great Northern Fish Cannery which employed and housed many Japanese, Chinese, First Nation and European families behind its walls for close to 70 years.

Planning a Community
Grade 4-10

A grass roots way to introduce your class to the local history of town planning and architecture. Program includes hands on reading of historic maps, plans and historic real estate and construction ads.

Steam Donkeys and Shingle Bolts
Grade 4-5

Archival photos, 3-D models and actual artifacts, all help piece together the story of the early days of logging in the forests of West Vancouver. Tree fallers, logging railways, shingle flumes and forest fires will be some of the topics discussed.

North Shore Moves: Transportation and You
Grade 5-7

Includes 3 classroom visits. Transportation on Vancouver's North Shore is a story that goes back thousands of years to the canoes of the Squamish people, and continues through sailing ships, horses, steamships, trains, automobiles, bicycles and public transit.

Details:

Programs are available through Mon through Fri. Each program last 60 minutes or 75 minutes, depending on group.

Times: 9:00am, 10:45am, and 1:00pm

Each program is $40.00. Included with your program is a program package with support material and Work sheets. Please ask for a customized program to fit your current social studies instructions if you would like to explore a topic other than those listed.

For classes participating in our in house museum programs, parking is available on 17th street and Esquimalt Street next to the Museum. Lunch facilities are available at the museum and John Lawson Park is close by.

To book a program, call Isaac Vanderhorst at 604-925-7297, or e-mail at ivanderhorst@westvancouver.ca

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