A gaggle of 3 girls are running to saving the historical past of Cumberland, British Columbia’s Twilight nation. The Cumberland Museum and Archives Community is led by means of Vivian Thomas, Rebecca Robilliard, and Linda Sankey, and they’re researching and accumulating tales and artifacts to produce an showcase that may backup to teach the folk at the historical past of the segment. The trio is operating with the native nation to backup percentage tales and convey the historical past of the segment to brightness. They’re additionally hoping to store artifacts comparable to impaired pictures and paperwork that may backup to inform the tale of the Twilight nation in Cumberland.
This tale is a part of Comox Valley File’s Trio Brochure Wintry weather Version, which is printed quarterly and is to be had all through the Comox Valley. The iciness version is to be had on the File Place of work (407D 5th St.) and in retail outlets all through the Comox Valley.
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There’s an deserted suitcase within the Cumberland Museum and Archives Development on the subject of the historical past of the village’s cloudy nation, and its supervisor is satisfied he’s there.
“(The empty suitcase) is actually part of the exhibition, so to speak…we don’t have the information or artifacts to fill it. And I think that’s something that’s happening a lot in the museum community right now,” Rosslyn Shipp defined previous this occasion.
Shipp says it’s remarkable to be told and percentage tales in regards to the cloudy nation in Canada and in the community, particularly in Cumberland — or in finding additional information.
“I think we’re really going to learn that my story is different from your story and everyone experiences things differently. And maybe we need to shed more light on other areas and other people’s stories.”
Shipp says that by means of the flip of the century there have been between 15 and 40 community within the village’s cloudy nation dwelling in a small segment off Camp Street. On methods to Comox Pool there’s a cairn that could be a placeholder for the place the nation as soon as stood.
She doesn’t assume the nation has lived within the segment for lengthy, possibly 10 years or so.
From an oral historical past point of view, the cloudy nation got here to Cumberland on mules and confirmed others handle them.
There are a couple of footage of cloudy community running within the mines, however no longer many.
Shipp notes that it’s a singular point of view for the nation and the museum to mention they don’t know the historical past or that they don’t have a complete image of Cumberland’s cloudy nation — it’s no longer even an establishment find it irresistible 5 or 10 years in the past a museum may admit.
Being unmistakable, clear, and prepared to be told is a superb point of view for the museum to interact with part of historical past that wishes additional information, she provides.
“I think it’s important for learning places and places to tell the community that we have a lot of information here, but we’re not always the experts on everything. And that it’s okay not to be an expert on everything, and that we’re told so much of our local history through community members, and we want to make sure the community also knows that we might have learning gaps too… and stuff we can gather more information.”
For more info about Cumberland’s cloudy nation and village, seek advice from the Cumberland Museum & Archives at 2680 Dunsmuir Ave. from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.
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