Hello Parents with Young People Learning at Home

We are seeking your assistance with a new display in the Ladysmith Museum on First Avenue, Ladysmith.

The theme is the Important Role of BC’s Predators (Black Bear, Wolf, Wolverine and Cougar). The goal to understand their importance, to respect and honour them, to explore our relationship with them and discover more about our heritage and culture through this display, newly created games, videos and hands-on activities.

We would like to gain your help with this display by having your young people (Grade 1 to Grade 12) create some art work. It might tie in with some aspect of their Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Art Curriculum.  If reports, stories, legends and poems also are created due to an interest in this theme we’d be happy to add them to our display. Students may search the Web for ideas and information.

Later when it is safe to do so we will arrange for a drop off location for your young people’s work.  Our volunteers will make an excellent display of the students’ art work in our new Ladysmith Museum exhibit. Families and friends will be welcome to visit the Museum and be awed and enriched by this exhibit. You will be notified by viewing the Ladysmith & District Historical Society Website under Events to find out when  it will be safe to be open for visitors.

We request that students print their name at the bottom right of their art work.  The size and art mediums (watercolors, acrylic paints, graphite pencils, crayons, charcoal and pastels, etc.) will be your choice.

Students’ work will be returned at the end of the exhibit.

Please share with us your interest in participating in this inclusive community exhibit by emailing vimarmot@shaw.ca. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Shirley Blackstaff, LDHS volunteer/director, vimarmot@shaw.ca

“While the Ladysmith & District Historical Society (LDHS) has closed the museum and archives and ceased Saturday operations at the waterfront until further notice, that doesn’t mean that our minds have to cease operations,” says President Quentin Goodbody.
LDHS volunteers are working on a few projects designed to entertain and inform you — with a historical perspective.
Some of these projects include a series of walks with points of heritage interest, titled “About Town – Walk Through Time.”
“The idea is to give you the incentive to get out, get some exercise (in a socially isolated manner) and at the same time learn about our communities,” explains Goodbody.
The society is also looking at the best ways to continue presenting their popular “Historically Speaking” series, which will be streamed online at specified times covering a variety of subjects including, but not limited to:
• “Earthquake Ladysmith” details the history of earthquakes on Vancouver Island and the impending “Big One,” examining its likely effects on Ladysmith and what you could/should do to prepare.
• “Ladysmith Fires: Risks and Prevention” looks at local fires through the ages and the story of the Ladysmith Fire Department.
• “Climate Change Examined” puts global warming and its effects into perspective relative to the Earth’s history of climate change prior to man’s industrial activities.
Work is continuing on the new museum exhibit on Vancouver Island predators – wolves, wolverines, bears and cougars. A part of the exhibit is a wildlife photography show, and the society is inviting photographers to submit high-resolution digital photos, as well as prints, that showcase the diverse wildlife in our area.

The society is planning a new exhibit at the Ladysmith Museum – its the first of our Natural heritage series. The Predators: Bear, Cougar, Wolf, Wolverine.

As part of the exhibit, our upstairs gallery will feature a Wildlife Photo show featuring images of wildlife – this can include birds, bugs, as well as mammals, with the stipulation being that they can be found on the east coast of Vancouver Island island. (our community is central-south island).

Trumpeter swans in Cedar. Photo: Nick LongoDigital images on a slide show and prints will be displayed. We ask that you submit one of each species (ie: don’t send 10 photos of hummingbirds, just pick one), there’s no limit and no fee.

If you wish to sell any of your images we ask that 25% commission goes to the Ladysmith Historical Society, a non-profit society that operates the Ladysmith Museum, Ladysmith Archives and the Waterfront Heritage Site, and a tax receipt will be issued if requested.

The exhibit will open (when COVID-19 subsides) and will be up throughout the summer.

To submit photos, please send us high-resolution images, with your name and subject.

To submit “hard-copy” for the gallery please let us know as wall space is limited and we will arrange for pick up once things return to normal.

Thanks for supporting natural heritage,

The Ladysmith & District Historical Society has received a B.C. Government grant under the Family Day Program.

Under the Family Day Program, the B.C. Government is providing grants “for free Family Day events in communities through the BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) and the BC Museums Association (BCMA).”

Here is a link to more information about the Family Day Grant program.

Please join us again on Tuesday, Jan 28, at 7 pm at the Ladysmith Museum for a presentation that will inform you and may help you keep your family and community safe.

Dr. Quentin Goodbody will be presenting Earthquakes & Ladysmith & Area. History, Reason, Risk & Why You Should Prepare. This is part of the Historically Speaking Series and will also include a short General Membership Meeting. Light refreshments following.

Goodbody is a geologist and president of the Ladysmith & District Historical Society.

Members: Free. Non-members: $5 suggested donation.

For information contact the Ladysmith Archives 250-245-0100, or email info@ladysmithhistoricalsociety.ca