BC Heritage Week 2025

Heritage Week is an annual event that takes place during the third full week in February. It celebrates and showcases local heritage across the province. This year, Heritage Week: Pastimes in Past Times celebrates the many ways people spent their leisure time throughout history, exploring how these activities have contributed to the cultural fabric of today.

Updated January 28, 2025
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Working with wool : a Coast Salish legacy and the Cowichan sweater
Olsen, Sylvia
Paper Book
The Best Loved Boat: The Princess Maquinna
Kennedy, Ian
Paper Book
Built in 1913, the Canadian Pacific Railway's ship Princess Maquinna steamed up and down the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in summer and winter, calm weather and storms, for over forty years, and has become one of the most beloved boats in BC's maritime history. Princess...
Wish you were here : life on Vancouver Island in historical postcards
Grant, Peter
Paper Book
The images that Peter Grant has collected are mostly previously unpublished and provide fascinating insights into the social history of life on Vancouver Island from 1904 to 1918. The views capture the life and times, particularly the parties and pleasures, in the Island of this long-ago vanished...
Learning to carve argillite
Davidson, Sara Florence
Paper Book
Based on Haida artist Robert Davidson's own childhood experiences, this beautiful story highlights learning through observation, as well as the role of Elders in sharing knowledge and mentorship. Learning to carve is a lifelong journey. With the help of his father and grandfather, a boy on...
Boom & bust : the resilient women of historic Telegraph Cove
Butler, Jennifer L.
Paper Book
Telegraph Cove, one of Vancouver Island's most visited tourist destinations, has humble origins as a one-shack telegraph station, established a century ago. The community grew, first with a salmon saltery and sawmill, then with new industries developed by the ingenuity of the Cove's...

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