Heritage Partners: Port Moody Station Museum
Langley Heritage Society members paid a visit to the Port Moody Station Museum -- which is also a community museum. We were inspired by their focus on school programs and unique approach to draw people into history, including a WW I trench system. Students and cadets have been actively involved in its creation and interpretation. For more information about tours and programs, visit HERE. Markus Fahrner, a museum coordinator, takes us into the McKnight Trench, named in honour of Lieutenant Augustus McKnight, a Port Moody civil engineer who joined up in 1914 and was killed two years later in Belgium. The airplane is a 7/8 scale replica of a Royal Air Force S.E.5a fighter plane. Under cover. The 1921 Venosta V class sleeper. Port Moody Station Museum, 2734 Murray Street Markus with an example of an immigrant's suitcase, and what might have been inside. He works with grade 10 students [...]