Field
Trip to Port Alberni and the Maclean Sawmill.
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out the photos here

On July 12, 2010, Rudi, Peter, Jerry, Hans and Richard installed a new sign at
the Pole Wheel Display, and installed a strip of anti-slip metal on the trestle.
See more photos here.

Raffle Fundraiser 2010 Our Seal Head
poster and
photos can be seen here
Canada Day Display
With showers forecast, Hans Mauer brought his 10'x20' tent to shelter both our
raffle display and our feature, Betty Wilson demonstrating use of the cedar in
traditional ways. We sold 19 tickets on the seal. Ron Hunter was
poular as ever with his carving. Thanks to Hans Mauer, Art Mebs, Dave Florence
and Phil Kemp for setup and tear-down; to Ruth and Chris for double- staffing
the museum; and to Linda Florence, Chet Fee and Hans for staffing the ticket
position outside.
see more photos here
We
visited member Dan Parsons' 7 acre property to see his model railway display on
June8, 2010. See also the
PR Living issue June 2010. The PRFMS may propose to
the Farmers Market a project to install a track available to the public where
Dan's train could run.
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more photos of the evening
For
National Forestry Week each year, Western Forest Products and its predecessors
have offered a popular public forestry tour. The September 26, 2009 tour was
enjoyed by about 70 participants in two school buses.
Check our our photo album
and comments for this date
Forestry Museum Birds. We received three birds donated by Brian Perrin in
September 2009. While photographing these, we also snapped the other three birds
donated a few years ago.\
All can be viewed
here
in our Photo Gallery
Next meetings at the Forestry Museum, normally 2nd
Tuesdays at 7 pm; if in doubt ask by
email :
Have a look at Rob Tremblay's website "Vanishing history"
http://www.vanishinghistory.ca , which
has some interesting ideas and photos of some of the logging artifacts to be
found in the forest.
See photos of our
2009 Sea Fair display in front of the Forestry Museum, where we were pleased
to present Elsie Paul, a Sliammon Elder, and Betty Wilson, a local SD47 teacher,
who shared their knowledge of traditional Sliammon forestry-related culture with
hundreds of people who stopped by. Betty and Elsie demonstrated techniques for
using the cedar tree to make baskets and other domestic products. In addition,
members of the Sliammon archeological project were on hand to show and discuss
some of this year's progress. Ron hunter was there to carve axes for the kids,
and the museum enjoyed a large attendance of visitors stopping by between the
midway and the beach events. Close by to us was an information table from the
Historical Museum that featured a fish pond for kids 3-6. The Townsite Heritage
Society had a booth in the main display area.
We created a Membership Page to provide information about joining the Society.
Check it out here.
Millennium Park Update -
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