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.
Vanier Park, Kitsilano
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A museum built around a 100-foot 1928 RCMP schooner that crossed the Northwest Passage twice. First Sundays are pay-what-you-can.
Vanier Park, Kitsilano
More infoThe Vancouver Maritime Museum made an architectural choice: it built the building around a 100-foot 1928 RCMP schooner so nobody could take it away. That's the St. Roch, first ship to cross the Northwest Passage in both directions, and you can duck into its cramped crew quarters and agree within ninety seconds you'd both have mutinied by week two. Go the first Sunday, pay-what-you-can, then walk the Kits seawall.
Skip admiring from behind glass, here you clamber right through the St. Roch, a 100-foot 1928 schooner the museum was literally built around, ducking into cramped crew quarters and up the ladders. Quietly agree you'd both have mutinied by week two, and give it about 75 odd-in-the-best-way minutes. Go on the first Sunday (pay-what-you-can), then spill straight onto the Kits seawall for a walk.
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