THE REVIEW

Wednesday, October 27, 1976

...L he Family Way

By the DEWEY FAMILY

Kids

It’s one of those places you; was used to propel the} A small ‘‘communications’’ Come along
don’t think about very often. | harpoons, and I don’t think | room contains some of the . ’
Our last visit to the Maritime | I’d have liked to stand near it | equipment from the trans- enjoy Hallowe en
Museum was several years ago, | when it was fired! + | pacific underwater cable at the Saanichton Fairgrounds
and we literally forgot about it FIND WHERE station at Bamfield. And : g
until we began listing places to YOU LIVE there’s an early ‘‘wireless’’

visit. for this column, Our
memory of the place was of
rooms full of old uniforms, a
lot of military equipment and a
collection of scale models of
navy vessels and sailing ships.
On touring the muscum
recently, we discovered that
many interesting changes have
~ taken place; enough to make it
worth a visit.if you haven’t
been lately. If you’ve never
been — and apparently a great

The centre of the main room
is taken up with a big, three-
dimensional scale-model mpa
of Vanouver Island and the
lower mainland. It’s the same
sort of map you see in the
lobby of the Provincial
Museum, but more detailed, in
“living ’? colour. The kids
looked for where we live — as
did many adults while we were
there — and I appreciated the
way it showed underwater

telepgraph with an interesting
history involving a wanted
fugitive trying to escape by sea.
The kids enjoyed a semaphore
signalling unit they could
Operate — but I don’t know if
anyone could have deciphered
thie messages...

Another highlight of the
children’s visit was a trip in the
building’s ancient; open-air
elevator cage. It’s a museum
piece in itself; over a hundred

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: a, . Hallowe’en Party
; ed Indian War to enclosed sailing vessel, and its Sponsored by Central
number of Vancouver | areas quite vividly. Boaters years old. According to the | canoe “‘Tilikum’’ is one of Victoria voyage from Victoria, ’round the Saanich Volunteer
Islanders are in that category | and fishermen might find it | Operator, it was installed at the

— make plans to spend an
enjoyable hour or two there
soon.

The museum is located in an

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quite informative, as it gives a
feeling for the area that maps
and charts can’t.

A collection of scale model

insistence of Judge Matthew
Begbie (Victoria’s ‘‘Hanging’’
Judge), when the building
contained the town’s courts.

Museum Director

Maritime Museum’s popular exhibits.
Capt.
Cameron tells of canoe’s conversion

Cape of Good Hope, to England, in

Keith the early 1900’s.

, eer vas : ‘ . $20,000!’ This seems typical ] couple last week took out a] by making donations, we can
appropriate place — fistorie sailing ships caught our Apparently ne didn’t like the of the problems facing him and “‘benefactor’s’’? membership sive it the lift it deserves. A
Bastion, Square boo nd ee aoe ‘am ne other me ot cwalking the three his staff. There just isn’t | for $100) but I think support | locality wilh our nautical
nail ° ible arkin aa ¥ Re . among courtroom S | enough money to do all the | from Victorians and Islanders | background should have a top-
easily hes cess tail 0 4 8 utes.) ont ig iti MAY RESTORE ‘| things they’d like to do. is most important. By visiting | notch Maritime Museum:

ae a aN ‘cundaye repli us oe noEALOUS ; COURTROOM In spite of such difficulties, | the place more often, by | Captain Cameron and his staff

pales on , ’ h : : P was .
Admissions are quite | sail-and-steam powered vessel The museum’s Director, the snuseum People ate doing, | buying memberships te Heat) Have tte ability, she intstest

reasonable: $1 for adults, 50c
for children — and_ other
reduced rates for groups,
pensioners, etc. If you plan to
visit often, as we now do, a
museum membership, $5 for
individuals, $8 for families,
_ gets you into the place as often
as you like, plus other benefits.
CANOE SAILED
AN OCEAN
The first thing to catch one’s
eye on entering the museum is
the “TILIKUM”’’, an Indian
war canoe that Captain Voss
converted to an_ enclosed
sailing vessel, and sailed from
Victoria to England. When
you stand beside this tiny boat
and imagine crossing oceans in
it, Captain Voss’s courage
becomes quite evident. I was
surprised to discover that the
basic canoe was carved from
one huge log, and was very
- probably used by the Indians
for coastal raids against other
tribes.
:. As Charlotte and.I looked at
the ‘“‘TILIKUM”’ exhibit, the

that plied our waters in the
1870s. The word ‘‘effort’’ is
appropriate, I think, as he told
us it takes up to a year or
longer to build such a model.

-He showed us copies of the

British Admiralty plans used to
construct the original
ZEALOUS; he built his model
from them, too. Ray came to
the Victoria Maritime Museum
two years ago, from the
Imperial War Museum, in
London. After viewing some
of the models and exhibits he’s
prepared, I think Victoria is
lucky to have him.
EMPRESSES ON
DISPLAY

We headed upstairs, where
we found exhibits of a more
modern nature: coastal
shipping, navigation,
hydrographic surveying, and
so on. There’s a room full of
‘““Empresses’’ — the luxurious
passenger vessels that sailed
the world — and often visited
this:coast.

In another area, we

an outstanding job. With the
help of volunteers, such as
Victoria Archivist Ainslie.
Helmcken, Cameron has been
working with Spectrum and
Parklands schools, helping to
tie-in local maritime history
studies with museum visits. He
plans further school
involvement as once the initial
““bugs’’ are worked out.
Another side of the museum
that many of us aren’t aware

Capt. Keith Cameron, gave us
a look at the old courtroom. It
(along with the rest of the
museum’s third floor) is
currently closed to the general
public. ‘‘It’s my hope to see
the room restored one day,’’
Cameron explained, ‘‘it could
then be used for various:
public meetings, films and
lectures.’? Now, the room is in
disrepair, although the Judge’s
bench and plush seats still in
the visitor’s gallery give a hint
of how it looked in Begbie’s
time — and how it may look
again.
Other

books and
Cameron says, ‘“‘I view the
museum as a community
resource, and our library is a
definite part of that. It’s
known worldwide as a good
source of information, for
museums, scholars, writers —
as well as for local people.
Many books have been
researched and written here.’’

Use of the library brings up
the subject of museum
memberships again. In
addition to entry to the
‘museum, members have access

documents.

projects, however,

such as completing the exhibits
on the second floor, will have
to come first. ‘‘This year, for
the first time, the museum was
sent a tax bill by the City of
Victoria,’’ Cameron said, ‘‘for

of is its library of maritime .

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