Wartime Archives - MONOVA

Ishar Singh Banns. Photo credit unknown.

Community, Immigration, Newcomers, Wartime

Ishar Singh Banns: The Man Who Wanted To Fly

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

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

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

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”

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

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

Bob Muckle, archaeologist and professor at Capilano University. Photo: Alison Boulier

20th Century, Exhibits, Immigration, Wartime

Bob Muckle is Bringing Stories To Life