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Sternwheeler Dawson

May Belle

Chief Skugaid

Johnson St. Swing Bridge

Nuu-chuh Nulth style canoe

Legislature Building

Songhees winter camp

Olympian

Boardwalk

Berens

Point Hope #1

Shaping masts and spars

Steaming planks

Schooner under construction

Shaping a corner block

Preparing a corner block

Beaver

Sadie Turpell

War Yukon

Orca Chief

Gordon Reid

Storm Rider

Tachek

Canadian Naval Vessel

Salish Sea Industrial Services tugboat

Salish Sea Industrial Services spud Barge

Seaspan Protector

Storm Spray

Delta

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      • The Causeway
        • 02 1858 Black Migration
        • 03 Side Wheeler Isabel
        • 04 Captain W.E. Gardner
        • 04 H.M. Gunboat Sparrowhawk
        • 05 John Guzzwell
        • 06 George McGregor
        • 07 Captain William Blagborne
        • 08 Mt. Royal Rice Mill
        • 10 Brother Jonathan
        • 10 SS Juan Sebastian de Elcano
        • 13 Royal Victoria Yacht Club
        • 14 Yacht Belvedere
        • 15 Eric and Susan Hiscock
        • 16 Ketch Williwaw
        • 17 Schooner Pato
        • 19 Tzu Hang
        • 20 S.F. Tolmie
        • 22 Norman A. Yarrow
        • 25 CGS Estevan & Capt. Ormiston
        • 26 Quadra
        • 30 Captain Cavin
        • 33 Clipper Thermopylae
        • 34 William Turpel
        • 35 Tony Gooch
        • 36 “Scotty” Gall
        • 37 Otter & Harry Glide
        • 38 Sierra Nevada
        • 40 Beaver
        • 45 Marquis de Bute
        • 46 HMCS Karluk
        • 50 Tynemouth | Minnie Gillan
        • 55 Tory
        • 59 HMCS Rainbow
        • 60 Sisters of St. Ann
        • 61 USS Phelps
        • 65 HMS Warspite
        • 71 Robert A Laing
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      • Alexander Charles Garrett
      • Audrey Grimshaw
      • Bernard Brown
      • Bill Nye
      • Don Prittie
      • Drs. Wallace & Madeline Chung
      • Elizabeth Chambers
      • James K. Nesbitt
      • John Sanderson
      • John West
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      • Pre-war Japanese Victorians
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      • Bill Lang
      • Blayney Scott
      • Captain Joseph Spratt
      • Captain J.W. Troup
      • Captain John Irving
      • Captain Victor Jacobsen
      • Captain Victor Jacobson
      • Captain William Irving
      • Captain William Moore
      • David Butterfield
      • Eddie Hubbard
      • J.H. Tunstall & Billy the Kid
      • James Douglas Warren
      • James Trehay
      • James Yates
      • Kanaka
      • Marguerite Ethel Spratt
      • Michael Williams
      • Paul Arsens
      • Peter Skene Ogden
      • R.C. Janion
      • R.P. Rithet
      • Robert Dunsmuir
      • Robert Pim Butchart
      • Roderick Finlayson
      • Sir James Douglas
      • The Greene Family
      • W.A. Jameson
      • W.J. Pendray
      • W.P. Sayward
      • William Brotchie
      • William Turpel 1843-1926
    • Explorers
      • Archibald Menzies
      • Bruno de Hecata
      • Captain George Vancouver
      • Captain James Cook
      • Captain Robert “Bob” Bartlett
      • Henry Roberts
      • John Meares
      • Joseph Despard Pemberton
      • Juan de Fuca
      • Juan Francisco Quadra
      • Pedro de Alberni
      • Robert Gray
      • Sir Francis Drake
      • William Broughton
    • Harbour Creatives
      • Bill Reid
      • Bill Wolferstan
      • Dave Harris
      • Emily Carr
      • Francis Rattenbury
      • Fred Fredette
      • Harry Heine