Canada Day Trivia
Welcome to the Maple Ridge Museum's Canada Day Trivia! Let's see how much you know about Canada Day and our local history. Good luck! Where ... Read More
Throwback Challenge – Canada Day Edition
JULY 1 – JULY 31, 2020 We’re sharing 10 photos of Canada Day in Maple Ridge and challenging you to recreate them with the members … Read More
Looking Back: Epidemic 1918
The last episode of world-wide quarantine was in 1918, just over 100 years ago. We did not have a local newspaper at the time but … Read More
Looking Back: Quarantine!
Most people think that communities like Maple Ridge incorporated in the 1870’s to get themselves identified as a unit that could bargain with senior governments … Read More
The Women’s Institute Quilters
This past summer at the Maple Ridge Museum we were able to transcribe the minutes of the Haney Women’s Institute from 1924-26 and 1936-41. As … Read More
Canadian Bills
These Canadian twenty-five cent banknotes all date to the year 1900. Twenty-five cent Dominion of Canada notes existed from 1970 until 1923, although that was … Read More
Iceland Coin Bracelet
This bracelet is made up of seven Icelandic coins from 1942, although the middle ones is stamped “Iceland 1945.” Four of them are two aurar … Read More
Patent Medicines
Patent medicines, which were generally neither patented nor actual medicine, were common in late nineteenth century medicine cabinets. These compounds, tinctures, liniments, and “herbal remedies” … Read More
Hammond Mill Hires Girls
A lengthy article in the “Pacific Coast Lumberman” magazine of June, 1918, describes how Hammond Cedar, under the direction of part owner and manager Doan … Read More
Time & Pickle Crocks
This is a story about a Japanese family about to be interned to Alberta. It was 1942 and the Shigemi family were living on the … Read More