hi fellow travelers thanks for joining today we're at the royal bc museum
this incredibly immersive museum explores the history of the peoples of british columbia
the first people's gallery showcases exhibits on first nations including many haida artifacts,
the becoming bc gallery highlights artifacts and replicas from bc's 200 year history
and the natural history gallery explores changes in bc's plants animals and geography
from prehistoric times right up until today today we're exploring the human history galleries but
if you're interested in natural history be sure to check out our video on that topic
here's a deer skeleton and bird bones says they were hollow making them
ideal for drinking straws, hair ornaments, whistles and flutes
a variety of decorated stone bowls
a collection of arrow points ranging from 200 years ago
4 500 and even 9000 years ago here's an example of a traditional first nations pit house
where the majority of the space was under the earth and they created a
covering with a hole in the center to let smoke out so they could have a fire inside
this is a mold of the petroglyph rock carving found in prince rupert
called the man who fell from the sky
there are a couple of stories that explain why and how this was made in one of them a
man tells his people that he's gone up to the sky and has fallen back to earth he takes them
down to the rock and shows them the dent he made when he struck the ground the other story
simply states that people carved this petroglyph where they found the body of a drowned person
this is a statue of the first nations chief
here's a niska mask depicting the white man ... maybe looks a little like nicolas cage and this
scene shows a model of a haida gwaii village that would have been inhabited around the 1870s
this is a collection of first nations totems
on the left and right are memorial polls and in the middle a hide a house poll
and this is the house of the late jonathan hunt who is from fort rupert the chief had
granted permission to the museum to exhibit his house with the original paintings on the front
house the carved posts dance screen speakers figure log drum and other ceremonial objects
let's head into the becoming bc gallery british columbia from the 1770s
just off the ship
we've landed in port time to relax at the sly dog inn
three men wanted for the navy
i'm back on the ship
here's a model showing fort victoria from around 1847.
here's a water wheel and sluice from the gold rush era between 1849 and 1900.
now we've entered into the mines you can see some of the large drills if you want to find
out more about mining in british columbia you can check out our britannia mine museum video
this big one on the end is the tourniquet nugget it was found in northern bc in 1937
and is the largest existing gold nugget from bc weighing at 1 642 grams
this exhibit shows the trombley homestead and farm
and then here we have another hidden detail yep it's a ... chicken
we've been transported back in time we're going to walk the streets of this colonial town
from the 1800s
or early 1900s and here's the grand hotel
now we're actually up and inside and we're going in the grand hotel
one of the guest rooms
some very ornate decorations looks like some offices inside the hotel
it looks like the train is just about to arrive in port moody station
can hear a telegraph working away in the ticket office
punching out morse code
we should go see how the blacksmith is doing over in the stables
i could use a break let's settle in and watch an old-fashioned matinee in the theater
hey look there's charlie chaplin
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and stay tuned and join us on our next adventure for now it's time to exit through the gift shop