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Arts & Culture
Climb Aboard the St. Roch at the Maritime Museum
A museum built around a 100-foot 1928 RCMP schooner that crossed the Northwest Passage twice. First Sundays are pay-what-you-can.
Arts & Culture
A museum built around a 100-foot 1928 RCMP schooner that crossed the Northwest Passage twice. First Sundays are pay-what-you-can.
The Vancouver Maritime Museum made a very specific architectural decision: it built the entire building around a 100-foot 1928 RCMP schooner so nobody could take it away. That schooner is the St. Roch, the first ship to cross the Northwest Passage in both directions, and you can duck directly into the cramped crew quarters, climb the ladders, and reach a shared verdict (within approximately ninety seconds) that you'd both have mutinied by week two. Around it sit model ships, Arctic exploration stories, and big windows looking out over Vanier Park and the water. The museum is compact and spills you straight onto the Kits seawall when you're done. Go on the first Sunday of the month when it's pay-what-you-can, and walk the seawall after.
