Glidepath ANADA MUSEUM FLIGHT THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF The Canadian Museum of Flight HANGER #3 5333-216th STREET LANGLEY, BC V2Y 2N3 TEL: 604-532-0035 museum@direct.ca FAX: 604-532-0056 www.canadianfilight.org
THE ARRIVAL OF AVIATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Excerpt taken from CMF’s Pioneering Aviation in the West
The new phenomenon of the manned flight in heavier-than-air flying machines was introduced to the BC public by a series if exhibition flyers who commenced visiting the area in 1910. These exhibitions were somewhat like traveling road shows with promoters making extravagant claims to attract thrill seekers and milk their purses of admission fees to the flying demonstrations. As each year passed, new serial novelties were required to whet the public appetite and keep the customers coming. The first such pilot, however, required only a simple exhibition of flying to satisfy his audience. He was Charles K. Hamilton of California who brought his Curtiss-type pusher biplane to the Minoru Park racetrack in Richmond, BC on the Easter holiday weekend of 1910. The BC Electric Railway Company ran special trains to cater for the crowds drawn to the display. On Friday, March 25, 1910, Hamilton became the first man to fly an aeroplane in BC.
“With Great courage and marvelous skill and a seagull’s grace, aviator Charles K. Hamilton gave to the 3,500 spectators at Minoru Park, a daring and at times thrilling exhibition… Ten minutes after his heavier than air machine soared on its first flight in graceful curves sweeping toward the grandstand, to the amazement of the crowd it suddenly swerved to the middle of the field and plunged to the earth. Hamilton landed safely but considerable damage was done to one of the planes while a tire was ripped from one of the wheels. But here the aviator justified his reputation for courage of the kind seen only in men who play with the clouds. Making such repairs as he could within the period of the spectators’ patience and his machine still incomplete, the engine was again started; the propeller again buzzed sending the coats of his assistants flying with the swift revolutions as they held his machine to the earth. Vaulting to his seat, Hamilton gave the front planes the slant that would catch the air and then like a giant seagull, the machine rose to the accompaniment of deafening cheers… everyone was satisfied.”
(Daily Province, Vancouver, March 26, 1910)
There was no failure or accident in the flights made by aviator Hamilton at Minoru Park Saturday afternoon. The wind was still and the sky was bright, the only drawback being the somewhat low temperature, which in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, to which he attained, was scarcely bearable. His most successful flight was one of about 20 miles to New Westminster following the course of the North arm of the Fraser River. He did this in 30 minutes, rising along the way to between 2,250 feet and 2,500 feet being forced to descend to a lower altitude owing to the intense cold. The flight was the occasion of keen interest. No one was expecting that he intended to go so far. Spectators gathered in the grounds watched him soar out into the sky growing fainter and fainter until he became a speck. Then he disappeared entirely from view and some thought that because he could no longer be seen low on the horizon he must have descended to earth. In some 10 minutes everyone was speculating as to where he could be and what had become of him. The nervous and pessimistic suggested an accident… 20 minutes after his departure a faint speck was discerned to the northeast where he was last seen… The aviator circled round the grounds, swooped down in front of the grandstand… and gracefully alighted amidst hearty applause of the onlookers. Everybody crowded around him and asked where he had been. “New Westminster” came the reply.
First powered flight in BC, Charles Hamilton flew this Curtiss Pusher on March 25th, 1910 from Minoru Park, Richmond, British Columbia
Mr. Hamilton was shaking with cold and immediately supplied with a stimulate. Between the chattering of his teeth, he told a curious knot of spectators how he had followed the winding course of the north arm of the river, mounting to 2,500 feet and then finding the temperature too chilly descended to a lower attitude which he maintained until reaching New Westminster where he sank to within nearly a hundred feet off the ground. His arrival there caused considerable interest. The streetcars stopped while their occupants watched his evolution. Turning just west of the bridge he began his homeward flight. Mr. Hamilton made two other flights on Saturday… During the second, which was described as a speed test against a motorcar, the biplane was beaten.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, March 28, 1910)
On the following Monday, Hamilton made the final appearance of his three-day engagement. Again, a gimmick race was set up this time with racehorse Prince Brutus. A handicap distance of 3/8ths of a mile was conceded to the racehorse, but it was too great. The Curtiss biplane was catching up to Prince Brutus at the end of its mile flight but the racehorse was still ahead at the post. Hamilton’s flight at Minoru Park gained him the honour of being the first man to fly in BC. His achievement was closely followed later in 1910 by William Wallace Gibson of Victoria, who, without formal training, built and flew an aircraft of his own design, from a farm near Mount Tolmie. Called a Twinplane because it had dual-wings-one set in front and one behind the pilot-it flew 200 feet at a height of twenty feet on September 8th
The trial was made over the Dean farm in the vicinity of Mount Tolmie. When he did alight, the severe concussion fractured the riding wheels of the Twinplane and further flights have been delayed for a day or two… In length the twin plane measures 54 feet with a width of eight feet, while the planes wings are positioned lengthwise on the craft and are controlled by a single lever, which guides the course of the airship. The planes measure twenty feet each in length and are eight feet wide, supplemented with one hundred springs girded with wire which make the machine indestructible.
(Daily Colonist, Victoria, September 10, 1910)
Gibson followed his Twinplane with a second original design, the Multiplane, in 1911, but financial problems and local skepticism led him to move his experiments to Ladner, then Kamloops and finally to Calgary where he ultimately ran out of money to support his endeavors. The next touring exhibition to visit BC, following Hamilton’s successful 1910 exhibition, was the “Pacific Aviation Company” which brought two Curtiss biplanes and flyers Jack de Pries and the Manning Brothers to Minoru Park in 1911. The crowds were larger than the previous year but the show was less than satisfactory.
An immense crowd that was howling enthusiastically at 3 o’clock was conspicuously apathetic when at 4:45 de Pries and his Curtiss type biplane appeared, one hour and 45 minutes late… de Pries ran the biplane along the ground 300 yards when it raised off the ground a foot and turning sharply rammed its nose into the fence on the left side of the track. Spectators scattered and some fell off the fence… The machine was incapacitated…. de Pries then trundled out the 40 KP Curtiss type biplane, the machine that Jack Manning had been advertised to fly…. after gliding 300 yards he rose to an altitude estimated at 250 feet sailing in a westerly direction of the racetrack high board fence. He alighted in the meadow back of the fence after a flight of 500 yards. This concluded the events of the first day of the 3 days meet.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, April 15, 1911)
On the Saturday, the paying public at the racetrack were just barely treated to the spectacle of flight and were poorly placed to witness the most exciting part of the action.
Starting at the commencement of the track, the aviator took to the air just before reaching the grandstand, rising gracefully to a height of a couple of hundred feet, taking the turn that followed the course three parts round the sailing away in the direction of Steveston. The flight was about 2 miles and from the park the machine appeared to alight easily. It was stated that it was the aviator’s intention to alight here and then sail back but the machine was badly damaged.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, April 17, 1911)
If Friday was bad and Saturday worse, then Monday was a total disaster, receiving scathing criticism.
Cold feet was a common complaint with the aviators at Minoru Park yesterday. Aerial navigation, the dream of the prime romance of our boyhood days was nearly brought into vivid realization when Browning Manning of the Manning brothers, in an attempt to break the height record for aeroplanes, rose about four feet from the ground. Then, afraid that he really was going up, he altered his planes and made a quick return to terra firma, ran into a fence and damaged one of his wings, ending by nearly making a record of another kind – a mad rush from his machine as though it were haunted. After an hour’s weary wait, the machine was repaired and a second attempt was made. The result was as before. Through chattering teeth and knocking knees he (made his excuses)… adding that the spectators had seen enough for their money. Altogether, it was the poorest of the three very disappointing, would be hair-raising, mid-air maneuvers.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, April 18, 1911)
With the professionals generating so much adverse publicity at Minoru Park, it is not surprising that the locally designed and built Templeton-McMullen biplane was completed without fanfare, taken out to Minoru Park and test flown very quietly during the first week of May 1911, before the information was discreetly leaked to the press.
Without laying any claim to being daredevils of the air, two young Vancouver boys from West Fairview have just completed a biplane of the Curtiss type and, several days ago, the machine was given a trial spin at Minoru Park with results, which are said to have been very satisfactory. William McMullen… and William Templeton are the two youthful aviators who have the honour of flying the first airship built in the city. The former is the actual driver of the aircraft, receiving the assistance of young Templeton in designing and building it.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, May 6, 1911)
Although the Templeton-McMullen aircraft, the first aeroplane built in Vancouver, had been upstaged by the Twinplane of W.W. Gibson, for the honour of being the fist such in BC, the arrival on the Vancouver aviation scene of Bill Templeton was of some importance. In the 1920’s he was to become the chief proponent for the creation of a Vancouver Airport, planning, building and managing it for the council. He was a visionary who foresaw, far better than most, the needs of the future. Another Vancouver visionary, but one with a more immediate vision, was Bill Stark. The son of the owner of the chain of Vancouver shoe stores, Stark saw in aviation an escape from the dreary occupation of selling shoes and a chance for making his fortune. Obtaining Acro Club of America Certificate No. 110 at the Curtiss Flying School in San Diego, California, he returned home to Vancouver with a Curtiss pusher biplane for touring the country in a series of exhibitions.
After some informal flights at Minoru Park racetrack on April 13, 1912, he made three exhibition flights on April 29, followed by some passenger carrying flights on the following Wednesday, April 24. To the sports editor of the Daily Province, James T. Hewitt, goes the honour of being the first passenger to be carried in a aeroplane in BC, while Stark’s wife, Olive, has the distinction of being the first woman aeroplane passenger in Canada. Their flights were made, seated beside Stark on the wing of the biplane.
The Curtiss biplane is not built for that purpose and the passenger has to take a seat on the plane close to the engine and mix up with the wires that control the machine.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, April 26, 1912)
A further flying demonstration, scheduled to be held at Minoru Park on the last weekend in May was postponed due to inclement weather and held then at Hastings Park instead. There, Stark made two successful flights on Saturday May 4, followed by a less successful one. A frightened cow which ran across the landing ground just as Billy Stark, the plucky Vancouver aviator, was planning to earth at Hastings park on Saturday was the cause of an accident which resulted in some slight damage to the machine and the injury of the aviator’s assistants. Stark himself escaped unharmed…
A herd of cows, grazing in the infield, took fright as he neared the ground and one of them ran directly in front of the machine Seeing this the aviator tipped his machine and went up a short distance, only to discover that he was too near the trees, which rim the track, to clear them. Then, being past the cow he came down again. The machine was going at a terrific pace and, when it hit the ground, rebounded fully 10 feet before it settled down again and speeded for the fence, which encircled the enclosure. Two assistants, J. Perry, the machinist, and J. Watson, an auto driver, grabbed the machine in an effort to stop it and suffered the unique experience of being run over by an aeroplane. Perry was bowled over on the ground and given a bad shaking up while Watson’s left hand was badly torn by a wire. The machine refused to stop and crashed into a fence. Stark saved himself by dropping from his seat about 20 feet from the fence, and allowed the machine to shoot over him.
(Daily Province, Vancouver, May 6, 1912)
The damage to Stark’s machine was not serous, and, after making repairs, he commenced his planned tour of the province, appearing in Victoria, Chilliwack and Armstrong, amongst other locations during the following months.
….to be continued in Winter Glidepath – January 2005
This story was taken from CMF’s Book Pioneering Aviation in the West Canadian Museum of Flight and Lloyd Bungey Photos from CMF photo collection pilot.
William “Billy” Stark, British Columbia’s first licenced Photo: CMF Collection
ISSUE 83
Fall 2004
HANGAR #3 5333-216th STREET LANGLEY, B.C. V2Y 2N3
TEL: 604-532-0035
FAX: 604-532-0056
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INSIDE
- PAGE 1 The Arrival of Aviation in BC
- PAGE 2 Dinner Meeting/ Upcoming Events
- PAGE 3 Volunteer of the Quarter/ Letters from our Member
- PAGE 4 New Members/ The Value of A Display
- PAGE 5 The Arrival of Aviation in BC.cont
- PAGE 6 The Arrival of Aviation in BC, cont
- PAGE 7 What’s happening in the Hangar/ Summer of 2004 highlights
- PAGE 8 Classifieds
THE NEWSLETTER
The CMF Newsletter is published quarterly by the Canadian Museum of Flight. Contributions in the form of articles, news items, letters and photos are welcome, as are comments and criticism. No payment can be made for any manuscripts that are submitted for publication in the CMF Newsletter. The Editor reserves the right to make changes in the manuscripts without altering the meaning.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Sandy Sideroff (Tinsley) at the Museum by calling 604-532-0035. Museum is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
CMF BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
- George Preston. President
- Bill Findlay Vice President
- Terry Wadhams Treasurer
- Ken Knutson Secretary
- Bob Fowles Director
- David McIntosh Director
- Matt Offer Director
- Ken Smith Director
- Capt Bill Thompson Lifetime Director
- Sandy Sideroff (Tinsley) Executive Director
- Teresa Rhodenizer Gift Shop/Bookkeeping/ Collection
- Alicia Kapustianyk Administrative Assistant / Volunteer Coordinator
QUARTERLY DINNER MEETING Saturday, November 27, 2004
DOORS OPEN: 6:00 pm DINNER: 7:00 pm $20.00 Per Person RSVP by 4:00 pm Thursday November 25, 2004 We require 48 hours notice of cancellation or you will be charged for the dinner
MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND BOOK EARLY, AS THERE WILL NOT BE ANOTHER NEWSLETTER BEFORE THE DINNER MEETING.
UPCOMING EVENTS – Mark your calendars
- Sunday October 31
- Move into Lougheed Mall – Set up will start at 5:30 p.m.
- Monday November 1
- Selling event starts at Lougheed Mall in Burnaby – This event continues through till Saturday November 6th and we require a number of volunteers to work
- Saturday November 6
- Tear Down at Lougheed Mall
- Sunday November 7
- Set up at the “Canada Remembers” exhibition in Maple Ridge. This set up is for an unmanned display but requires volunteers to take memorabilia and displays early on Sunday morning.
- Sunday November 7
- Move into Semiahmoo Shopping Center in White Rock. Set up will start at 5:00 p.m.
- Monday November 8
- Selling event starts at Semiahmoo Shopping Center in White Rock – This event continues through till Sunday November 14th and once again will require a number of volunteers to work.
- Thursday November 11
- Tear down at “Canada Remembers” in Maple Ridge at 4:00 p.m.
- Sunday November 14
- Tear Down at Semiahmoo Shopping Center starting at 5:00 p.m.
- Saturday November 27
- Quarterly Dinner Meeting.
VOLUNTEER OF THE QUARTER
Many people think that to volunteer, you have to leave the comforts of your home and go to a facility and give of your time. Although many of the museum’s volunteers do just that, we have others who donate many hours of their time from home. Our Fall Volunteer of the Quarter is one of these people. John Inksater is the Museum’s Webmaster and for the past year has been putting in countless hours bringing our website up to date with current information and also keeping our Events page active. In the Museum’s guest book there is a section titled “Where did you hear about us” and more and more people are saying… “From your Website” Not only is the website a very important tool for the Museum to get the information out to the public, but as you will read in this newsletter a new tool of getting information to you, our membership. So, can you play a very important role with the Museum from the comfort of your home? John is proof that you can! Thank you and congratulations.
NEWSLETTER GOES ONLINE
Due to some of the Museum’s emails being identified as “SPAM” many members have not been receiving information from CMF.
In an effort to make our newsletter more available to members of the Canadian Museum of Flight, ‘Glidepath’, starting with the January 2005 issue, will be included on the Canadian Museum of Flight website (http://www.canadianflight.org). The ‘Home’ page of the website will contain a link called ‘Members Only’ that will give access to a secured page exclusive to CMF members. Here the user will find a selection of documents consisting of the current ‘Glidepath’ as well as past issues. Other documents as well as announcements pertaining to members will be posted here as they become available. All the documents in this area will be in the .pdf format which can be read by using the program ‘Adobe Reader’. For those who would like to either download or upgrade ‘Adobe Reader’ a link to Adobe will be available on the page in order to download the free copy of the ‘Adobe Reader’ program. One of the options that is available with the .pdf format is the capability to save any document that has been accessed online so that it can be read at leisure offline or printed if desired.
Access to the ‘Members Only’ page will be through a User ID and Password. It is expected that the User ID will be based on your Membership number and the password will be your Master file number as shown on your membership card. It is requested that any member who is concerned that the Canadian Museum of Flight might not have his current contact information please contact the Museum to update that information. The ‘Members Only’ page will also include a ‘logout’ button to take the user back to the home page for continued browsing. Submitted by John Inksater
LETTERS FROM OUR MEMBERS
In 1977 when my self and four others became concerned that our aviation artifacts were fast disappearing across the U.S.A border we decided to form CMFT and gave ourselves the mandate to collect aircraft memorabilia and tell the story of aviation in Canada in general and Western Canada in particular. Over the years we seem to have developed into a flying club rather than a museum. Like most museums we are rich in assets and poor in cash. When the flying season is over and the bills are all in the Board of Directors will have to decide whether we can continue the luxury of flying our planes. If some of our volunteers quit because we stop flying that’s too bad but it is a decision they have to make themselves.
When we were still in Surrey we used to fly on a limited basis. All 5 founding members are licensed tail dragger pilots but none of us has ever flown or had a ride in any museum owned aircraft. We did not want to be accused of running an old boys flying club. However flying airplanes is not our major concern. We need a cover over our existing aircraft and way more space to display them. As for our static airplanes in the barn. The Hurricane is very rare now and the one we have was built in Canada. We have the most important piece, the fuselage is built out of formers, stringers and fabric and attaches to the piece we have, static wings are easy. All you need is the skill and the imagination of people like Fred Gardham, Gogi Goguillot, Mark Zalesky and the many others who are no longer with us. The Norseman is 100% Canadian. Given the time and money ours could be flyable. We also have a supply of aircraft spruce at the barn which could be made into a replica of the Silver Dart the first airplane to fly in Canada and we could hang it from the ceiling. The best thing about static airplanes is they don’t require expensive aircraft materials.
Submitted by: Bill Thompson CMF Member #3
WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS
Russell Martens Don & Elaine Perrin Glenn Jenkins Alfred Butterley Jim Beswick Daryl Peloquin Phil Bot Donnie Baum Jack Lanskail Jo Hopink Jim Fraser David Gilroy Andre Holley Ray Horton Bill Cameron
Abbotsford, BC Wallace Hall Chilliwack, BC Coquitlam, BC John Braine Aldergrove, BC Langley, BC Gary Dodwell Vancouver, BC Chilliwack, BC Jack McCollum Langley, BC Langley, BC North Vancouver, BC Mark Scott Langley, BC Ron Taylor Mission, BC Langley, BC Jerome Stuart Burnaby, BC Langley, BC Hamilton McCoymont Richmond, BC John Williams Surrey, BC Langley, BC Surrey, BC Surrey, BC Al Blakely Burnaby, BC Peter Buurman Langley, BC Langley, BC Langley, BC Rob Fennie Vancouver, BC Vancouver, BC John Collins Langley, BC Gord Wintrop Langley, BC Surrey, BC Surrey, BC Joe Pyringer
THE VALUE OF A DISPLAY
WHAT MAKES A MUSEUM?
Most of us have visited a museum of one kind or another and have enjoyed looking at the artefacts whether it be photos or an actual piece of history. What if you were to walk into a room and the walls were bare and there were items laying on tables, no description, no story….would you have learned anything, would you want to return, would you tell your friends? With out a story or description to go with the artefact or photo, those items lose their importance and in a sense, their life.
When you walk into the CMF’s hangar you are greeted with a sign that invites to you to turn left and start a chronological walk through history starting in WWI. A few years ago two individuals, Bob Jadis and Lew Twambley started a magnificent display that highlights the aircraft and more importantly, the people who flew and serviced them. These displays incorporate both photos and artefacts and are not only visually appealing, but very interesting to read. Their work was completed at the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan display and since that time there has been little, if any work done on any of the displays around the museum to complete this chronological walk.
Finding volunteers in this busy world is hard enough, but finding volunteers to help create displays has proven to be a very difficult task. Displays at a museum should be the main focus, yes we have aircraft, yes we have wonderful photos and interesting memorabilia, but with out the story to tell our visitors what type of aircraft, when it flew, who flew it, it looses as mentioned earlier its life, and why should our visitor tell his / her friends to come and visit us if they didn’t enjoy themselves or learn anything.
We have had donated to the CMF some of the most interesting memorabilia that has not been displayed. Enough memorabilia that we could change our displays every six months to encourage visitors to keep coming back to the museum , seeing something new each time. What is stopping us from putting these things on display?
Although the CMF staff are more than willing and happy to help in creation of the display, writing text, editing photos etc, there is not enough time nor is there the experience or knowledge to do so. Who better to tell the story of the commercial airlines in British Columbia than someone who flew for Queen Charlotte Airlines, or PWA etc. You the members are the ones with the history, the knowledge and better yet, the memories. When volunteers are approached to help with displays there is an immediate reaction of “I am not creative” “What would I say” “how would I actually make the signs and the displays”?
I would like to start a display committee made up of 6 individuals who would be able to tell the stories, pick out the appropriate photos and artefacts, and then along with the staff, create the displays. Much of the research etc could be done at your home and around your schedule with the committee meeting to discuss the content and direction of each display. Please consider becoming one of these volunteers, we can not lose sight that we are a Museum and our mandate is to tell the fascinating story of Canadian Aviation history.
If you would like to help on this committee or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at the CMF office Monday-Friday 604-532-0035 or by email museum@direct.ca
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sandy Sideroff-Executive Director
HAPPENING IN THE HANGAR
The past summer has been filled with a mix of regular maintenance on the flying aircraft, and restoration work on the WACO INF and Fleet Canuck.
We will be doing considerable fabric work this winter on both of these aircraft, and it would be wonderful if we could have a few more members helping out with these projects. The WACO INF is one of the oldest flying aircraft in Canada, so why not get involved and put a part of history back into the air where it belongs. In the process, you will also become a part of history. No great strength is required. No particular skills are needed, just an interest in learning, and the willingness to spend a bit of your time, practicing a dying aviation art form, aircraft fabric techniques. The maintenance crew will teach you the skills. You will be amazed at how easy it is, although time consuming, hence the call for help. If any one has skills as a spray painter and have a bit of time to volunteer, your efforts would be much appreciated also. We will also be doing annual inspections on the flying aircraft again this winter, so help will be needed with this again also.
Submitted by Rick Church
SUMMER AT A GLANCE
We have had a very busy summer season starting on June 30/ July 1 and the Langley Canada Day Celebrations. This two day event raised over $3,000 and although was very exhausting for some volunteers, was a great success. In July we hosted our Members Day and although we had the weather, the aircraft did not cooperate and so after a few flights being awarded, it was cancelled due to unserviceable aircraft. A special thank you must go out to the Abbotsford Flying Club for bringing two of their club aircraft to help fly our members! The Abbotsford Air Show as always was a success with approximately 4,000 2 for I brochures given out and sales on raffle tickets. After our aircraft flew on Sunday at the Abbotsford Air Show we flew the Fleet Finch, SE5a and Tiger Moth to Pitt Meadows to participate in their Airport Appreciation Days. Waiting for them on the ground were CMF volunteers who brought a selling display for the event.
On August 23rd we hosted the “Aeroplane Magazine Readership Tour” from the UK. The group started their 16 day aviation tour of Canada at our Museum and it was a wonderful experience for all involved. From August 23-28th we had a full selling display in Cottonwood Mall in Chilliwack. Tear down was Saturday night and then at 8:00 a.m. the next morning we were setting up again at the Chilliwack Flight Fest. This was by far the best event of the summer, with sunny skies and a wonderful air display. Our selling display sold over $2,400 worth of product in just 6 hours!!! (and yes, we had to tear down that night)
In September the museum’s aircraft flew for the Mission Legion “Freedom 2004” celebrations, the Gurdwara Kalgidhar Darbar Sahib Society, and the Langley Good Times Cruise-In. These fly pasts brought in a donation of $1,000. Although the first annual Good Times Wings and Wheels event was a re-enactment of the Flood of Noah’s Day with torrential rain, the event MC’d by Red Robinson was a success and we plan to do it bigger and better next year. The Cruise-In donated $550.00 and off site gift shop sales of the event were over $700.00.
This is just a highlight of the events we participated in over the summer….there were more! We realize that it takes a lot of time to set up / tear down and work these displays, but from the comments in our guest book and from the monies made from the events, it’s something we must continue doing.
In order to meet our financial budget we have booked two mall selling events in November. We need your help! The shifts are 4 hours long and we require a minimum of 2 people at all times, and yes there are evening shifts available. As you can appreciate, it is impossible for us to call all the members to ask if they would like to work a shift, so if you are available or would like more information, please contact Alicia at the Museum office by calling 604-532-0035.
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