The Government of Canada’s theme for International Women’s Day 2025 is Strength in every story. This year’s theme highlights the importance of amplifying the voices of all women, particularly those who continue to face barriers to success. Creating opportunities for women and girls unlocks their potential and drives innovation, supports Canada’s economy, and helps ensure a sustainable future for all.
To celebrate International Women’s Day this year, we’re taking a look back at an article about Comox Valley resident, Ede Anfield, in the January 6th, 1971 edition of the Comox District Free Press. Ede passed away in 1993 at the age of 86.
Zoophycos is a trace fossil. Trace fossils are the tracks, trails, burrows or other markings left behind by organisms in the sediment. Zoophycos feeding traces consist of radiating arc-like grooves and ridges which are termed spreite. The spreite are arranged in broad overlapping tongues and fans around a central vertical shaft or burrow.
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.
Canada celebrates Heritage Week every third week of February, and the focus this year is "Pastimes in Past Times". We invite you to consider a visit to the museum a rewarding community pastime and a chance to celebrate timeless-to-more-recent heritage.
Gotta have a gnome? If you’re searching for an unique DIY craft this month to relax and spend time with a mythological being on a rainy day, look no further than the busy Museum Gift Shop.
A sweet treat for your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. This recipe comes to you from a mid-century fundraising cookbook. It was assembled locally from dozens of Comox Valley residents who shared their favourite homemade goodies with the community.
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.
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!
People around the world have found ammonite fossils in ancient marine deposits for thousands of years. Ammonites had a many-chambered shell and are believed to be relatives of the octopus and squids that live today. Through time there were at least 10,000 and, possibly, up to 20,000 different species.
