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Kaatza Station Museum curator/manager Barb Simkins shows off one of the displays to be presented to the community at this year’s Heritage Days, May 16 to 18.
Museum to mark Lake Cowichan’s 70th anniversary Kaatza Station Museum to set up displays at Heritage Days outlining history and early days of Lake Cowichan Ross Armour
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Lake Cowichan is celebrating 70 years of becoming a municipality this year and the Kaatza Station Museum is going all out to mark the historic time frame. This year’s Heritage Days, May 16, 17 and 18, will see the museum set up a variety of displays illustrating and outlining what Lake Cowichan was like in 1944. It was in August of that year that the district first turned into a village, becoming a town
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only recently in 1996. “The main display that we are doing this year that’s new is the 1944 display,” said museum curator/manager Barb Simkins. “It’s been 70 years since the town was incorporated as a village. We’re very excited to do a display on 1944 and strictly on Lake Cowichan. “It’s been really interesting. We have a class picture from 1944 to go in the display as well as different community pictures with all the pictures going on the wall of the display case.”
Further to that, there will also be display cases specific to Honeymoon Bay and Mesachie Lake. “There will be one display case strictly on how Lake Cowichan became a village and the process it had to go through, although there’s not many photos available on that. Nowadays you would have politicians shaking hands and cutting the ribbon,” said Simkins. “I’ve also found different local articles on 1944 like what movies were playing and the war was obviously going on so that played a part.
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“There was different community organizations in 1944 that were geared towards the war effort like knitting socks and that sort of thing. A lot was going on in the lumber industry as well. There was also the bomber plane crash that killed six airmen which happened nearby. It had a major impact on the community at that time.”
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