[Bcma-l] Maritime Museum, Victoria - Steamship Travel in BC

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

Maritime Museum’s Summer Exhibit Features
Steamship Travel in British Columbia

The Maritime Museum’s Summer exhibit presents the human face of travel 
along British Columbia’s coast during the province’s early years

P.O.S.H., for Port Outbound; Starboard Home—is scheduled to open May 4 
The acronym P.O.S.H denotes the desirable cabin location for traveling 
in southern seas.

The exhibit will focus on the west coast steamship trade, which included 
ships from about six companies that provided transportation along the 
entire west coast of North America from the late-19th to mid-20th 
centuries.

These companies were integral in the development of British Columbia. To 
many isolated communities, accessible only by boat, the ships,with their 
deliveries and pick ups of goods, mail and passengers, represented the 
residents’ only connection to the larger world.

A second major theme of the exhibit will be the early beginnings of the 
Alaska cruise ship trade. Guest curator Jacques Marc, executive director 
of the Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, will be 
providing his own collection of early cruise-ship china and dinnerware 
for display, to demonstrate the style in which privileged, or P.O.S.H., 
passengers traveled.

The Museum is still looking for the following

Photographs and postcards of coastal vessels with permission to reproduce
Artifacts and images-menus, napkin rings, china etc.

*CN/Grand Trunk Pacific
*Union Steamship Line
*Blackball
*Puget Sound Steam Navigation

We already have lots of things from Canadian Pacific

Contact Richard MacKenzie at 250-385-4222 ext.107
Or email richardmackenzie@mmbc.bc.ca <mailto:richardmackenzie@mmbc.bc.ca>