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        • A Walk Through Time…
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        • Natural Bounty
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        • Time and Tide: Photography by Doug Kerr
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        • Now Here’s the Deal
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      • Lecture: Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution
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      • Lecture: The Francophone Ranchers of BC’s Interior Plateau, 1860s-70s
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About Us

The Courtenay and District Museum was established in 1961 as a non-profit organization with the mandate to collect, preserve and interpret natural and cultural heritage of the Comox Valley region.

Throughout the year, the museum offers on-site and outdoor programming suitable for all age groups. Program subjects include fossils, geology, First Nations history, pioneer settlement history, social history of the Comox Valley, logging and lumber history, river way study, as well as, a series of changing exhibitions.

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Contact Us

Phone:
250.334.0686

Email:
info@courtenaymuseum.ca

Address:
207 Fourth Street,
Courtenay B.C.,
V9N 1G7

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