Membership

The Maple Ridge Historical Society relies on memberships from community members to survive. Societies are member-driven organizations that exist only so long as there are members supporting them.

The Maple Ridge Historical Society operates the Maple Ridge Museum & Community Archives and manages Haney House Museum, St Andrews Heritage Church, and the Old Post Office building on Callaghan St. We are committed to preserving and honouring our local history, as well as the heritage and stories of the people who live in Maple Ridge today.

With the community’s support in 2025, this is what we accomplished:

• Several temporary exhibits at the Maple Ridge Museum and Haney House Museum with themes that included an overhaul of Haney House displays, a community-based exhibit in collaboration with Earth Day 2025, and an exhibit on early Punjabi Canadian labourers in Maple Ridge.
• We installed a new permanent exhibit in partnership with Katzie First Nation.
• We received a $275000 grant from the Japanese Canadian Legacy Society. With this, we hired a Special Projects Curator and are working towards digitizing our Japanese Canadian archival materials and make them accessible to the public.
• We put on dozens of events, including Music on the Wharf, In the Dead of Night, 6 Headstone Preservation sessions, Apple Harvest Festival, monthly walking tours, and our popular monthly DARS Open House.
• Our community outreach program Museum on the Move made 10 appearances around the city and at community events.
• We fulfilled over 100 research requests.

In 2026:

• We intend to continue our trend of growth and community outreach with new and engaging exhibits at both museums and locations around Maple Ridge.
• We will focus on collections management, including photographing our 20000+ artifacts.
• We will complete a translation project that will make Maple Ridge’s history more accessible to newcomers and English Language Learners.
• We will continue to bring Museum on the Move to every corner of town with engaging exhibits and activities for all ages and abilities.
• We will provide Maple Ridge’s educators with more resources to enhance their lessons on local history.
• We will continue our work to make the archives more accessible to the public and searchable on our website.

Through your annual membership, you can be involved in your community and help celebrate the heritage of Maple Ridge and its residents. You can contribute to our goals of bringing the museum and history into schools at no cost to teachers. Your membership keeps us operating not just financially but as a registered society, not-for-profit, and charity.

In return, you will receive our bi-monthly newsletter, early access to tickets for events like Paranormal Nights, and voting rights at our annual AGM.