Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Silvery Slocan Museum


Located at 202 - 6th Ave. - that's the bottom of main street sharing the same address as the Visitor's Center. 358-2201. Well worth a visit for a glimpse of some of the history of New Denver. 
Weekends starting the long weekend in May, through the Thanksgiving weekend in October.
Daily in July and August
from 9 am to 5 pm.
Adult $2, Student $1
Family $5
Children (under 6) Free

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Nikkei Internment Memorial Center


The Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre (NIMC) in New Denver is the only interpretive centre in Canada dedicated to the history of the uprooting and internment of over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese heritage. The Centre consists of five buildings, three of which are the old original huts or shacks that were built in 1942 to accommodate the displaced citizens. Inside two of the huts you will see the furnishings and stoves that were actually used by the occupants. At times two families occupied one hut, one family on either side of a common kitchen. Toilet facilities, rows of outhouses, are also preserved. The large central hall displays pictures , texts and equipment of tents, desks, boxes and other luggage used in their journey to the various campsites from the coast. There are a few citizens still living in New Denver from those originally resettled here in 1942