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After the closure of CFB Chilliwack, the Royal Engineer Log Building was moved by 6 Field Squadron from CFB Chilliwack to the Six Field Engineer Squadron Museum Association's Armoury in 2000. It was originally built in 1860 to provide accommodation for the Royal Engineer team surveying the 49th parallel between Canada and the United States. [1]
This list of museums in British Columbia, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Museum location houses permanent and temporary exhibitions centred on Chilliwack history. [15] The Chilliwack Museum and Archives website hosts numerous online exhibitions, [16] and developed the Chilliwack's Chinatowns: A Story of Diversity, Racism and Arson online exhibition, [17] an exhibition based on the book Chilliwack's Chinatowns by ...
Four sites at the heart of CFB Esquimalt: Her Majesty's Canadian (HMC) Dockyard, the former Royal Navy Hospital, the Veterans’ Cemetery and the Cole Island Magazine; illustrative of years of naval history, from the era of the British Royal Navy to the modern Royal Canadian Navy: Estate of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia [33]
Chilliwack Museum and Archives, located in the 1912 former Chilliwack City Hall on Spadina Avenue, is a National Historic Site of Canada. [24] The Chilliwack Museum and Archives are a non-profit organization operated by the Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society which began in 1958 by brothers Oliver and Casey Wells. [25]
5th (BC) Artillery Regiment Museum: British Columbia: Victoria: Capital: Military: History of coast artillery and associated units from 1861 to the present day 12 Service Battalion Museum: British Columbia: Richmond: Metro Vancouver: Military: Ashton Garrison Museum: British Columbia: Victoria: Capital: Military: website [permanent dead link ...
Area Support Unit Chilliwack (ASU Chilliwack) is a Canadian Forces facility located in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Located in the upper valley of the Fraser River , approximately 100 km (62 mi) east of Vancouver , it is the only Land Force Command facility in the province.
Part of CFB Chilliwack became a residential subdivision known as Garrison Crossing, and its training facilities became the Canada Education Park, a local campus for the University of the Fraser Valley. The Chilcotin Training Area, better known as the OPSEE Area(Operator Special Engineering Equipment Training Area), is still operational and is ...