Gold River Museum & Archives
396 Nimpkish Drive v0p1g0 Gold River, BC, Canada

Nov 19, 1969 apologies for the poor quality of this upload. we have 2 copies of this edition, neither was a very good reproduction. we scanned the best pages we had.

photos of the MV Schiedyk sinking in Nootka Sound 1968. donated to the Museum & Archives by D'arcy DeHart

October 14, 1969

September 16, 1969

So you think its cold outside? 50 years ago, December 1968, it got so cold, everything froze. A few pictures from the Tahsis Company Kraft Mill in Gold River

Some of the worst flooding our community has seen. The Heber River often gets high during the rain season in November, but 1990 saw a record amount of rainfall and it totally overwhelmed the streets, as well as flooding Big Bend.

We're looking for your help - Who remembers the Pronto Pup? Do you have a story or better yet A PICTURE! Who has one?

Gold River, BC - how the community was built, why we are here. Gold RIver was an "instant town" and the first in Canada to have all of its electric wiring underground.

Please help share to as many as possible

Register at the Literacy Centre in the Village Square!

Volunteers Wanted Last summer the Museum and Archives was fortunate enough to receive a number of back issues of The Record, our local newspaper for many years. We were also in the process of moving, so things were quite hectic. This spring we are looking for any members of the community who may be interested in helping catalogue and record our newspaper holdings. Part of this process will include looking for grants to help digitize our ever increasing news collection. Hour...s are flexible and will depend on who comes forward. If you are interested in being involved, please email [email protected] We apologize, but messages left on this site will NOT be answered.

Sorry about he audio, youtube won't play the soundtrack :-(

A new Community Directory is underway. If you are new to the area, or want to update / change your information, please contact [email protected] , mail to PO Box 985, Gold River, BC, V0P 1G0, or come in to the Literacy Centre, weekdays 10am - 1pm and we can chat. All businesses in the community are welcome to be listed. We'd like you to buy an ad and support the directory, but you don't have to. It is meant to provide community information to members of both Gold River and Tsaxana and if there's something you think we should have in there, please let us know!

Two gems from the early days - the first is an invitation to the opening ceremonies of the new village in 1965, the second is one of the first tourist brochures

Drama Club - three productions from the early 1990's - two pantomimes, Aladdin & Dick Whittington, and a production of the Pied Piper that was performed in the Village Square

A short video showing before and after views of the community.

The Gold River Elementary School opened May 5, 1967. 50 years ago next month!

We were the second group to start school in Gold River and go all the way through to graduation (first if you count preschool ;-) ) of course back then it was still Gold River Elementary School - GRES!