Find Heritage Week Events
All week on February 17 -23, 2025, culture and heritage organizations across the province are going to be hosting events to celebrate Heritage Week.
Use our Heritage Week Calendar to find events. Filter by cost, location, kid-friendly, virtual and more!
Heritage Week Treasure Hunt Layer by Layer Feb 19 - Mar 31, 2024 free, all ages Launched for Heritage Week and continuing to the end of spring break, we invite all ages to get out and experience local culture, layer by layer. Follow the clues along the North Shore Spirit Trail, explore the layered heritage […]
Come down to the Lake Country Museum and Archives to get a FREE stroll guide! Explore Lake Country... explore your community.
Travel back in time with a visit to Steveston Tram, at the entrance to the historic fishing village of Steveston. Discover the connections between the Interurban Tram system connecting this industrial village with the rest of its growing urban surroundings. Follow along our daily blog posts which will focus, layer by layer, the interconnectedness of […]
On display are, 21 beautiful quilts, lovingly created by artist, Lois Klassen. This exhibit is open to the public until April 19,2024 and a select few are available for purchase.
To celebrate Heritage Week (Feb. 19-25), the District invites you to share your pictures and stories about North Saanich. You can share your pictures or stories with us in the following ways: Stop by our Council Chambers – 1620 Mills Road Tuesday, February 20 through to Friday, February 23 between 10:00 a.m. and Noon. Email […]
Explore Japanese Canadian history and continuing heritage on the walls of the upper level at the Nikkei Centre. Learn about the first immigrants from Japan to Canada; vibrant prewar communities in British Columbia; forced dispersal across Canada; and the continuing stories of civil rights and Japanese heritage in Canada.
Discover history in your own backyard with a visit to the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site this Heritage Week 2024. Follow our daily blogs to uncover the fascinating layers of Steveston's boatbuilding history. Kids - come visit the site Tuesdays to Sundays 12 to 4pm and pick up an activity booklet to become a "Jr. […]
To celebrate Heritage Week (Feb. 19-25), the District invites you to share your pictures and stories about North Saanich. You can share your pictures or stories with us in the following ways: Stop by our Council Chambers – 1620 Mills Road Tuesday, February 20 through to Friday, February 23 between 10:00 a.m. and Noon. Email […]
One day in August 1999, three men were hunting sheep in Northern BC when they came across something unexpected: human remains and sundry artifacts - a hat, a knife, a bag - emerging from a melting glacier. Archeologists and Indigenous representatives were called in and determined that the remains were of an Indigenous boy in […]
To celebrate Heritage Week (Feb. 19-25), the District invites you to share your pictures and stories about North Saanich. You can share your pictures or stories with us in the following ways: Stop by our Council Chambers – 1620 Mills Road Tuesday, February 20 through to Friday, February 23 between 10:00 a.m. and Noon. Email […]
Join us this Heritage Week and learn about the layered and complex history of Delta and its citizens through a joint archive and gallery tour. In the Delta Archives you can see the different resources available to the public for access consisting of preserved historical records as well as a variety of reference materials. In […]
To celebrate Heritage Week (Feb. 19-25), the District invites you to share your pictures and stories about North Saanich. You can share your pictures or stories with us in the following ways: Stop by our Council Chambers – 1620 Mills Road Tuesday, February 20 through to Friday, February 23 between 10:00 a.m. and Noon. Email […]
Make sure to visit the Douglas J. Husband Discovery Centre for Heritage Week between 2-4 pm as members of the Boundary Bay Quilters Guild will be there with their sewing machines to help you make a quilt block! Visitors will be able to try their hand and perhaps discover the “Joy of Quilting” for themselves! […]
Family Day Weekend: February 16-19 from 11 am to 4 pm Join us at the Museum for this FREE, family-friendly event. See if you can find the objects pictured in our treasure hunt booklet. Receive a prize for trying to find them! Cowichan Secondary students have taken photos of artifacts (objects) in the Cowichan Valley […]
Discover Maritime Heritage with the Ladysmith Maritime Society Ahoy, Ladysmith community! It’s that time of the year when we throw open the doors of our maritime haven and welcome you to a day filled with nautical wonders. Join us on Monday, 19 February 2024, from 10:00 am to 03:00 pm, as we share the maritime […]
Discover Maritime Heritage with the Ladysmith Maritime Society Ahoy, Ladysmith community! It’s that time of the year when we throw open the doors of our maritime haven and welcome you to a day filled with nautical wonders. Join us on Monday, 19 February 2024, from 10:00 am to 03:00 pm, as we share the maritime […]
The Richmond Museum welcomes families to learn about what it is and was like to grow up in Richmond with the current exhibit, Richmond Kids. Visitors can get hands-on with interactive exhibits, testing themselves in a Richmond-based game of chutes and ladders, sharing favourite childhood memories, and building imaginative structures with tiles and blocks. This […]
Join us at the Summerland Museum this Family Day (February 19th) from 10am to 4pm for a free visit and teddy bear scavenger hunt! Find the teddy bears to win a goodie-bag prize! The Giant's Head Model Railway will be running on the second floor. Plus we will have free face painting from 2-4pm.
Visit the Alberni Valley Museum for family fun on February 19th from 12-3. Experience our newly-installed travelling exhibit The Ones We Met and partake in crafts and activities. Snack provided. The fate of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition was one of the Arctic’s most enduring mysteries, until the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror […]
During this year‘s BC Heritage Week, Ucluelet and Area Historical Society will again be hosting a speaker at the George Fraser room in the Community Centre. Monday evening, February 19, Author Ian Kennedy will present a talk on the Princess Maquinna, a ship of the BC Coastal Steam Ships line (CPR) on which west coast […]
On Monday, February 19, 2024 Visit the Ladysmith Museum from 11 am – 3 pm for a guided tour of the exhibit Tree-mendous – our fantastic forests. Kids' activity stations will echo the forest theme with arts and crafts, and a discovery table featuring leaves, seeds, bugs, fossils and a microscope. A series of shorts […]
There is an exhibit in the Sikh Heritage Museum on Transnational Marriages. Visitors to the Open House are welcomed by the staff of the South Asian Studies Institute and have the chance to see the exhibit and watch Film Screenings related to the theme, we end the afternoon with a Q & A discussion. All […]
Test your knowledge of Summerland past and present, and guess the mystery artifacts, while enjoying fabulous craft beer and delicious food. We promise that you'll "have a blast"! There is no sign-up fee to take part in the trivia contest. The winning team will win a prize of souvenirs and other goodies from the Summerland […]
To celebrate Heritage Week, we will be exploring our new historic signage trail and welcome you to join us! One day during the week we will be offering a cross-country ski tour and the other day will be a snowshoe tour. Obviously if our 'winter' continues to warm up, these could become walking tours! The […]
Explore Nelson's best kept secret for over 50 years - the Cold War Bunker! During the height of the Cold War, in the '50s and '60s, nearly 50 bunkers were constructed across Canada. In 2017, the Nelson Museum began work on restoring the space and opening it to the public. Now, it's one of the […]
The Mennonite Heritage Museum is pleased to present a FREE movie matinee series, every Wednesday! Our selection, during Heritage Week, is The Flood of 1948. Showtimes are at 1pm and 2pm and advanced registration is required.
Join us this Heritage Week and learn about the layered and complex history of Delta and its citizens through a joint archive and gallery tour. In the Delta Archives you can see the different resources available to the public for access consisting of preserved historical records as well as a variety of reference materials. In […]
This drop-in event for adults 50+ is a great way to meet people with similar interests and make new friends. Take a stroll down Memory Lane with old photos and memorabilia from historic Summerland! The event runs from 2-3:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.
The Mennonite Heritage Museum is pleased to present a FREE movie matinee series, every Wednesday! Our selection, during Heritage Week, is The Flood of 1948. Showtimes are at 1pm and 2pm and advanced registration is required.
State of the Snowpack is returning for monthly snowpack updates in the Rossland Range throughout the 2023-24 winter! Join Keith Robine at the Museum on Wednesday, February 21st at 6 pm for the latest updates for the Rossland Range. More info: rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2023/state-of-the-snowpack
Each year, the City of Maple Ridge recognizes individuals, groups, or sites that have contributed to the heritage and/or history of Maple Ridge. The evening to celebrate Heritage Award winners and nominees will take place on Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, at the Albion Community Centre. The Albion Community Centre is located at 24165 104 Avenue, […]
The Windermere Valley Museum and Archives will be hosting our bi-monthly meeting during Heritage Week. For this event only, we will be open for public to tour our main building during the day and from 2:00 to 4:00 we will have a showing from our vault, Fall Fair (1961), with tea to follow. Come to […]
Interested in learning about Delta's community history? Join us at the Discovery Center for a first time oral history listening event this Heritage Week. Delta's Archives houses one of the largest collections of oral history interviews in the lower mainland and is rich with community members stories. We look forward to sharing our special collection […]
Heritage activist and community historian Laura Saimoto will give a lecture and lead a discussion on the Rupert-Renfrew neighbourhood of East Vancouver, a new district boundary that merges part of the Renfrew-Collingwood and Hastings-Sunrise areas. It is a deep dive into the rich layers of an area which reveal a rich history woven by the […]
This online Reading Room will focus on the film Charlotte’s Castle. At the Reading Room event, we will discuss the film after participants have watched it beforehand on their own. Charlotte’s Castle is a 2022 documentary directed by Jamie Kastner about the Spadina Garden Apartments, a historic apartment building in Toronto, and some of the […]
On Friday, Feb 23, the annual Ladysmith Heritage Awards ceremony will be held at the Ladysmith Eagles Hall, starting at 6 pm. Along with the awards presentation, there will be slide shows of Ladysmith in days gone by, and a mix and mingle social. Ed Nicholson will read excerpts from Ron Delcourt's book “Magic Alley' […]
Textile has always served as a metaphor for the intangible and unknown aspects of human existence. Referred to as the veil, it is conceptualized as the gauzy and semi-opaque liminal barrier separating the physical world and the dimension of the spirit. Whether it is the temple curtain suspiciously torn at the moment of Jesus’ death; […]
To celebrate Heritage Week, we will be exploring our new historic signage trail and welcome you to join us! One day during the week we will be offering a cross-country ski tour and the other day will be a snowshoe tour. Obviously if our 'winter' continues to warm up, these could become walking tours! The […]
Explore Nelson's best kept secret for over 50 years - the Cold War Bunker! During the height of the Cold War, in the '50s and '60s, nearly 50 bunkers were constructed across Canada. In 2017, the Nelson Museum began work on restoring the space and opening it to the public. Now, it's one of the […]
This February Full Moon Day, immerse yourself in the vibrant art of Traditional Syrian Storytelling during BC Heritage Week at Soumak Boutique, nestled in the Kids Market on Granville Island in Vancouver, BC. Step into a realm of enchanting narratives spun by the gifted storyteller, Masa Kateb (artist bio below), and travel to humanity's most […]
In celebration of BC Heritage Week, come and enjoy our beautiful park like, lakefront 8 acre Heritage Site. Stroll the snow packed paths to view our 13 historical buildings. Saturday, February 24th, 11 - 2 PM . Share stories of the Gold Rush era by our Bonfire and enjoy a warming cup of hot chocolate.
Celebrate Black History Month at Mackin House through food, stories, music, books, and art. Come join our Black History Month event on February 24 and learn about heritage through food demos and arts and crafts, view Black History books from the Coquitlam Public Library, view our displays, learn about community and mental health mindfulness, and […]
On February 24th, from 4 pm to 6 pm, join the Westbank Museum and Sncewips Heritage Museum to celebrate this year's heritage week with this one-of-a-kind Trivia night hosted at Grizzli Winery. Partaking in fun & educational trivia questions dedicated to testing your knowledge of the history of Westbank, our extraordinary BC wine country and […]
Woven Through Time: The Stories We Tell Pitt Meadows is a community that has found itself through the layers upon layers of history that have been added to it. People have added their own layers and stories to this city, and we have created our community. For Heritage Week this year, we are presenting some […]
Join us at the North Delta Centre for the Arts to learn more about Delta's storied history with a viewing of our Delta Treasures videos and a Delta specific documentary. These videos highlight important stories and artefacts that are important to Delta's history and community members.
Interested in learning about Delta's community history? Join us at the Discovery Center for a first time oral history listening event this Heritage Week. Delta's Archives houses one of the largest collections of oral history interviews in the lower mainland and is rich with community members stories. We look forward to sharing our special collection […]