Ground Breaking Ceremony SuccessNearly 100 residents and community officials joined us for a ground breaking ceremony in June to celebrate the beginning of construction...
Updated Hours During ConstructionDue to our construction schedule, the Shawnigan Lake Museum will be CLOSED to the public, effective August 8th, and until further notice....
Raffle Generates $2000 for Museum ExpansionLen Wansbrough, from Shawnigan Lake, was the lucky winner of the Museum’s online raffle! His ticket was worth $621.Len generously donated...
Abandoned, Then Embraced - The Kinsol TrestleThis project, co-authored by Lori Treloar, Shawnigan Lake Museum Executive Director & Kathryn Gagnon, Cowichan Valley Museum Curator,...
The Last Spike: Sir John A Macdonald Visits Shawnigan LakeBC threatened to secede from Canada unless a railway was built on Vancouver Island. In 1883, the British Columbia Government appealed to...
E.J. Hughes: The World Famous Painter from Shawnigan LakeE.J. Hughes was born February 17, 1913 in North Vancouver but spent the first nine years of his childhood in Nanaimo. For over 70 years...