Bowen Island Historians Museum & Archives

The Bowen Island Historians have been collecting material related to the history of the "Happy Isle" since 1967. The two small museums, in their park-like setting, exhibit the unique history of Bowen Island.

The Museum & Archives is open from 10:00am to 3:00pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, or by appointment.

Contact for appoimtment: 604-947-9526

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Click here to browse our online photographic database

April 19, 2009 | Historians' photo collection now online

Want to stroll down memory lane? Want to look for photographs of your family? Want to see what things looked like way back then? Now you can. Our photographic database, a picture chronicle of Bowen Island history from 1872 to the present, is now online. The entire text database and over 3000 of the photographs are accessible at this time for your pleasure and as a resource for learning about the island on which you live.

You can browse or search for specific pictures. Not all of our 7000 images are posted as yet, so keep coming back; new ones will be posted at regular intervals. In the meantime, if there is the description of a picture you are interested in, but whose image is not yet available, contact us.

This new addition to our services is due to a generous grant from the Irving Barber Learning Centre at UBC allowing us to contribute our bit to the BC History Digitization Program. The focus of the program is to promote increased access to British Columbia’s historical resources within the Learning Centre’s wider mandate to demonstrate the fundamental relationships between the heritage of the past, the current and the future.

This is your family photo album. So we would be grateful for your help. Many wonderful photographs have come to us with not as much information as we would like. If you can identify people or places and especially dates, even approximate ones please contact us. There may be inaccuracies and mistypes; these too we would be grateful to you for pointing out.

Many of the photographs are available for purchase. Contact us.

To view the photos online go to http://bih.andornot.com

To Contact us: Attention Archivist

Mail: Box 97, Bowen Island, B.C. V0N 1G0

E-mail: bihistorians@telus.net

Phone: 604-947-2655 or 604-947-9526