Chinese Legacies

Today was an exciting day at Revelstoke Museum and Archives as we had the official opening of our new exhibit: "Chinese Legacies - Revelstoke's Chinese Community." We were very pleased to have the Chinese Consul General present from Vancouver, as well as about 40 members of the Kwong family. The exhibit features several artifacts from the Kwong family, and they came from all over B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan to be present for the exhibit opening. The exhibit, as well as a parallel exhibit at the Revelstoke Railway Museum, on the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway, will be in place for 2 years.

Railway Days - Revelstoke's Community Festival is on all week, and the museum is featuring several other events, including a Downtown Walking Tour, a Cemetery Tour, a slide show of local photographs, a Heritage Explorer Children's event, ending with an evening of Beer and Wings on Friday. For information on any of these events, send us an email at revelstokemuseum@telus.net