Field Trip to Port Alberni and the Maclean Sawmill.

 Check 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. click here for 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 - click here