Shipyards Archives - MONOVA

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

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

Community, Shipyards

Connections Speaker Series: A Planning History of The Shipyards

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

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

Program Coordinator and now children's author Carol Ballard showing off her new book inside Streetcar 153. Photo: Alison Boulier

Education, Kids, Shipyards

Join Us On The Journey of Streetcar 153

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”

First women to be employed at Burrard Dry Dock in sheet metal shop during World War 2. Front row, L.to R: ?, Eleanor Morfitt, Robert Logan, ?. Back row: ?, ?, ?, Claudia Eckstein. Victory ships in background. Photo: NVMA 12384

20th Century, Shipyards, Wartime

CityStudio Stories: The Rich Shipbuilding Legacy of The Shipyards

Hockey historian Chris Mizzoni at MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver next to a replica Norvans sweater, 23 April 2022. Photo: Alison Boulier

20th Century, Community, Outdoors, Shipyards, Wartime

Boosting Morale During Wartime: The Vancouver Shipyards Norvans

Actor-Interpreters Chantal Gallant, Taylor Williams and Tanner Zerr star in "MONOVA: Stories of Belonging on the North Shore" available on The VR Voyage and through QR codes in the Museum of North Vancouver.

Collections, Exhibits, Indigenous, Shipyards, Wartime, Women

“Stories of Belonging on the North Shore” launches on The VR Voyage