Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
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Old Hastings Mill Store Museum is Vancouver's oldest building and former Hastings Mill store turned museum owned and operated by the Friends of the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum. Subscribe now to stay up to date on what's happening at the museum and to learn interesting facts!
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
1M ago
It was a surprise attack but not unexpected. Under the command of Adolf Hitler, troops manning German tanks rolled into Poland at daybreak on September 1, 1939. Within two days, England and France declared war on Germany ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
2M ago
Joseph Hansom was fascinated with designing and building. Born in York, England on October 26, 1803, Hansom would learn the trade of joinery from his father as a youth. His real love, however, was creating structures of ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
3M ago
Ancient alien crafting??? At first glance, some of the Indigenous belongings in the museum collection appear to be decorated with pieces of thin, plastic-like straw. The ‘straws’ are actually porcupine quills, which hav ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
4M ago
It was undoubtedly a relieved group of Overlanders who arrived in Lillooet on October 31. Once again they were able to sleep with a roof over their head at the Stage Hotel. They accepted a temporary job offer from the pr ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
5M ago
Jasper House was a long-established Hudson’s Bay Company Trading Post built to serve trappers, adventurers and explorers using the Yellowhead and Athabasca passes through the Rockies. The Overlanders found that they coul ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
7M ago
Since Time Immemorial, bodily-worn child carriers have been used all over the world for transporting babies and keeping them safe. It is still common for children in some countries to spend the first two years of their l ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
8M ago
In a small backroom off dusty Water Street on the afternoon of May 10, 1886, Mayor Malcolm MacLean and his ten aldermen held the first-ever Vancouver City Council meeting. Following a swearing-in ceremony, there were man ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
10M ago
Most of us Vancouverites have heard of Joe Fortes, legendary lifeguard and Special Constable of English Bay Beach, who taught three generations of children how to swim between 1887 and 1922 ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
11M ago
Vancouver’s magnificent new City Hall was ceremonially opened with a golden key by Mayor Gerald McGeer on December 4, 1936. One of the proudest onlookers in the throng gathered on the Hall’s north plaza would undoubtedly ..read more
Old Hastings Mill Store Museum
11M ago
Sometimes a story emerges from an item in the museum that we previously had little knowledge of ..read more