The former Post Office building, now home to the Courtenay Museum, turns 100 years old in January 2026. Celebrate this anniversary by participating in Universal Letter Writing Week on Saturday, January 17 at the museum. Drop in from 11 AM to 2 PM and put pen to paper.
The Courtenay and District Museum board and staff would like to extend wishes to all for a wonderful and safe holiday!
Museum staff searched the archives cook book collection to provide a couple of recipes for the holidays. Both are from a book of "Personal Recipes" likely produced in the late 1950s as a fund raiser by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion Branch 17, Courtenay.
Local heritage lost an invaluable resource person with the recent passing of Lawrence Burns. Mr. Burns, the former chair of the Courtenay Heritage Advisory Commission, was awarded Heritage BC’s Award of Recognition in the Distinguished Service category for his commitment to heritage conservation in 2020.
Guess who’s turning 80,000,037 this November! The museum is celebrating the Comox Valley’s very own Puntledge River elasmosaur Traskasaura Sandrae on Saturday, November 15 from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
Each year on September 30, Canadians commemorate the painful and tragic history and ongoing impacts of residential schools across our country. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the children who never came back home and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.
Just last month, the Filberg Heritage Lodge & Park debuted a brand new addition to the Filberg Lodge, called Bob’s Office. The objects and photos in this historical room were curated alongside audio to transport visitors back to the time of hand logging in the Comox Valley during the 1920s and 30s.
The Courtenay and District Museum occupies the 100-year-old former Courtenay Post Office building. The original section was built during 1925, and the structure was doubled in size with an expansion in 1954.
The Courtenay Museum has two amazing programs that will keep your kids engaged, learning, and creating all week long. From prehistoric adventures to clay masterpieces, these are the perfect blend of education and fun.
In the early 1930s, brothers Guy and Darrell Smith began developing land in the Oyster River area as a show garden and seed farm. This story, briefly mentioned in the Courtenay and District Museum’s book Step Into Wilderness, deserved more attention.
