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Actor-Interpreters Kelsey Ranshaw and Charlie Cook in character as The Shipyards Pals, sitting side by side in Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver.
20th Century, Community, Entertainment, Shipyards, Wartime, Women

Explore North Vancouver’s shipbuilding history with The Shipyard Pals

May 22, 2023
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Gary Penway in The Shipayrds, December 12, 2021. Photo: Planning Institute of BC, South Coast Chapter
20th Century, Community, Shipyards, Wartime

Gary Penway on how The Shipyards almost didn’t happen

April 4, 2023
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StoryMap allows visitors to explore 24 different historical locations from the Shipyards on a pin map. Photo: MONOVA Staff
20th Century, Community, Shipyards, Wartime

New Interactive StoryMap Explores The Shipyards

March 7, 2023
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Photo of Fred Wilmot (shown left) from the pages of Wallace Shipbuilder, February 1945. NVMA Series 161
20th Century, Wartime, Work/Commerce

Loose Rivets: The story of Fred Wilmot and Burrard Dry Dock

February 20, 2023
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Phyllis Munday with 25 kg pack and ice axe, ca. 1923. Her daughter Edith stands beside her. Cabin can be seen on right. NVMA 5652
20th Century, Archives, Community

Vancouver’s Broadway Subway Project honours mountaineer Phyllis Munday

January 23, 2023
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Karen Magnussen in skating costume, ca. 1966. NVMA 9667
20th Century, Sports, Women

CityStudio Stories: The Legacy of Olympic Figure Skater Karen Magnusson

December 13, 2022
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Guest Curator Nadin Hassan in MONOVA's Feature Exhibit Gallery. Photo: Alison Boulier
20th Century, Collections, Community, Shipyards, Work/Commerce

You Are Here @ The Shipyards traces the evolution of North Vancouver’s waterfront

December 5, 2022
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A view of a dock at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue, with leisure boats and Cates tugs docked in the foreground, and a SeaBus arriving at the terminal in the background, November 1978. Photo: Bruce Flanagan, NVMA 160-168
20th Century, Shipyards, Wartime, Work/Commerce

MONOVA announces new exhibition “You Are Here @ The Shipyards”

November 2, 2022
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Large group of hikers on top of Grouse Mountain. G.G. Nye, lower right. Many identified on back of NVMA 56. Photo: NVMA 55
20th Century, Archives, Collections, Exhibits, Outdoors

New Mobile Exhibit Explores The Lure of the Mountains

October 14, 2022
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Jack Cash and camera/tripod mounted on top of a Buick automobile outside the Empire Pool at University of British Columbia, 1955. NVMA 10432
20th Century, Archives, Photography, Wartime

Explore North Vancouver through the lens of Jack Cash

October 4, 2022
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We respectfully acknowledge that MONOVA: Museum and Archives of North Vancouver is located on the traditional lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, whose ancestors have lived here for countless generations. We are grateful for the opportunity to live, work and learn with them on unceded Coast Salish Territory.
 

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