General Videos Collection

In case you wondered what went on at the museum at night. The bear left a donation.

This is a short video showing the Walker horse carriage on the move to the Pemberton Museum after being donated by Grace Gordon-Collins this summer. Thanks to Dwayne Dick for helping to coordinate the move of this historic item

Laurie Carter joined us at the museum for a presentation about her new book “Emily Carr’s BC” Thursday Oct 17th 2-4pm.

She is a travel journalist and mystery writer. The first book in her Emily Carr’s BC series (Vancouver Island) was a finalist for Best Travel Book in the North American Travel Journalists Association 2015 awards. She is also the author of Grandma Wears Hiking Boots: A Personal Guide to the Okanagan Valley and co-author (with husband Bruce Kemp) of Gifts of the Okanagan, Her travel stories and photos have appeared in publications ranging from airline magazines to tourism websites and been recognized with numerous travel media awards. Travel also features in her Taylor Kerrick Mystery Series.

In case you missed it! We had a fantastic evening with the Courageous Mountain Rangers and a great dinner. We raised $3700 on the event for the Pemberton Station School and John Arn Cabin project at the Pemberton Museum. Thanks to all who volunteered and attended and see you next year!

See historic images and video clips of downtown Pemberton B.C. from 1920 to 2019. You can find all of the historic images and videos on our website – just search using the accession number. You can find the videos in the General Videos section of the website. If you have more information or images of Downtown Pemberton to add to the collection please contact us through the museum website.

Urgent Messages” by the Media Guild was filmed in Pemberton in 1985. 16 mm reel, color, optical sound. The film deals with the topic of teen suicide and prevention and was produced for a teenage audience for use in schools. The film was donated by Colin Preston, retired archivist with the CBC. The film was converted to digital by Lifetime Heritage Films in B.C. Accession number 017.14.

On Saturday August 25th the museum held a bottle drive as part of our fundraising efforts. The bottle drive was organized by Museum Supervisor Emma Eslake and staff and supported by museum volunteers. We have earned over $800 on the bottle drive. Our account is still open at the Pemberton Bottle Depot if you wish to donate to the museum. We are fundraising to move the Pemberton Stn. School and John Arn Cabin to the museum by 2020.

The museum hosted an afternoon tea for Florence Bilenduke on Saturday, June 9th. Florence is retiring from the museum after 35 years of service, and moving to Calgary to be with her family. Despite the unpredictable weather, there was an amazing turnout of over 75 community members wishing her a loving farewell.

In 2017 the Pemberton Museum received funding from the BC Canada 150 program. This funding went toward improving Safety, Security and Access to the site. We created an access path that would increase accessibility to our buildings, fixed the perimeter fence and added another access gate, tore down a dangerous old shed used to house our machine artifacts, built a new one and moved historic equipment to it.

In April 2018 we tore down the old machine shed that had been closed off to visitors. This video shows the process of tearing it down, and building the new, much safer, building.

Thank you to McLeod Construction Ltd for doing this work, and for allowing us to film it. We would like to acknowledge that these improvements were made possible by funding through the BC Canada 150 program and the Province of British Columbia in 2017.

Children’s Art Festival – 150 years of Pemberton & District history told by Mt.Currie mountain and children of Pemberton.
Thanks to the Pemberton Arts Council for their partnership on the event. Special thanks to SLRD and Village of Pemberton for the funding for the After School Art Program.

The Access Path Project was completed this month thanks to BC 150 Funding. The path is a legacy project that will improve access for years to come.

Published on Sep 24, 2015

Judy and Hugh Bourhis’s shared love and appreciation of stained glass was just one of the many things that bonded them when they met. Little did they know this passion would turn into a full-fledged business that, like the Bourhis’s, is still going strong 35 years later.

On August 6th we had Linda K. Thompson at the Museum for a poetry reading. Linda’s writing is influenced by both the emerald landscape of Vancouver Island and her childhood home in the beautiful Pemberton Valley. The rich soil of that Valley seems to cling to her no matter the number of years she is away. Voices of family and ancestors make their way onto her pages. She is compelled to record, to save their whispered stories. We saw a total of 11 guests for the reading. A few of Linda’s old friends showed up to support her. We are hoping she can come back for another reading next season.
Visit Linda’s website to find out more about her and to read some of her poetry. http://www.lindakthompson.com/

The Pemberton Museum thanks the Pemberton and Area Endowment Fund via the Community Foundation of Whistler, BC Hydro and American Friends of Whistler for funding for the new Transportation Exhibit. It took a little longer than we anticipated but think you will see it was well worth the wait!