Victoria Watcher posted topic The Future of History - floating Indigenous welcome centre and exhibit

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Victoria Watcher has just posted a new topic entitled "The Future of History - floating Indigenous welcome centre and exhibit" in forum "Arts, Culture and Entertainment".

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The Future of History is envisioned as a floating concrete structure on the provincial water lot that was once home to Undersea Gardens and is currently the site of a temporary dock for the FRS Clipper passenger ferry during construction of the Belleville Street terminal.

The floating Indigenous welcome centre and exhibit would be approximately 15,000 square feet, featuring teaching spaces, canoe workshop areas, mooring for canoes, and spiritual and community gathering areas.

It would tell the history of the Lekwungen people who once lived in villages around the harbour and illustrate how Indigenous people used waterways for thousands of years before European contact.

"This opportunity returns the Lekwungen Nations to a place of prominence here in our traditional territory where residents and visitors will be welcomed," said Chief Jerome Thomas of the Esquimalt First Nation.

The project would go hand in hand with the Maritime Museum's move into a 21,000 square feet space in the CPR Steamship Terminal building.

The plan is for the Maritime Museum to contribute $1 million to the new floating museum and raise a third of the $38 million needed to build it from corporate sponsors, a third through a local fundraising campaign and a third from the federal government. The provincial contribution would be the land and water lot.

"This really is the opportunity to add a community component to what is otherwise a transportation terminal. We really want to be able to roll this out for the first season after the completion of the Belleville terminal," he said.
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