What is the BC Artifacts Mobile Museum?

The Mobile Museum Tour consists of an extensive collection of authentic Pacific Northwest First Nations, Pioneer, Fur Trade, and Gold Rush artifacts the audience will view, touch and discuss during and after a very engaging and informative Power Point presentation by Tony Hardie descendant of early BC pioneers and the Secwépemc (Shuswap) people.

Highlights of the current presentation include:

• Large extensive visually engaging displays
• Power Point Presentation, Hands-on area and Question Period
• BC Timeline with First Nations Mapping and Traditional Territories
• Tool Technology used by Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest
• Discussion of early Fur Trade exchanges with explorers and First Nations exploring Trade, Bartering, Monetary Systems
• Authentic early Pioneer, Gold Rush and Railway worker artifacts
• Authentic First Nation Indigenous artifacts and replicas

The BC Artifacts Mobile Museum is an engaging presentation that complements the Social Studies curriculum for all ages and grades in British Columbia. Parts of the BC Ministry of Education Social Studies content discussed and presented during the BC Artifacts Mobile Museum visits may include some the following:

• K – people, places, and events in the local community, and in local First Peoples communities.
• G1 – diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the local and other communities and key events and developments in the local community, and in local First Peoples communities
• G2 – diverse characteristics of communities and cultures in Canada and around the world, including at least one Canadian First Peoples community and culture and relationships between people and the environment in different communities
• G3 – cultural characteristics and ways of life of local First Peoples and global indigenous peoples, interconnections of cultural and technological innovations of global and local indigenous peoples and oral history, traditional stories, and artifacts as evidence about past First Peoples cultures
• G4 – early contact, trade, cooperation, and conflict between First Peoples and European peoples, the fur trade in pre-Confederation Canada and British Columbia and the impact of colonization on First Peoples societies in British Columbia and Canada
• G5 – past discriminatory government policies and actions, such as residential schools, and internments and First Peoples land ownership and use
• G6 – sustainable fishing & resource management, including effects on indigenous peoples
• G7 – technological developments and interactions and exchanges between past civilizations and cultures, including conflict, peace, trade, expansion, and migration
• G8 – social, political, and economic systems and structures, including those of at least one indigenous civilization, interactions and exchanges of resources, ideas, arts, culture between and among different civilizations and exploration, expansion, and colonization
• G9 – the continuing effects of imperialism and colonialism on indigenous peoples in BC and Canada
• G10 – discriminatory policies and injustices in BC and Canada at residential schools and conflicts and co-operation
• G11 – diversity of B.C. First Peoples territories and communities
• G12 – traditional territories of the B.C. First Nations and relationships with the land