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The focus of the permanent displays in the Sidney Museum is the human history of Sidney and the North Saanich Peninsula. [3] This includes the First Nations groups of the Peninsula, the settler families of the area, economic ventures and development throughout the past century, the beginnings of the railway and transportation systems in the area, the development of the Town of Sidney, the ...
The British Columbia Aviation Museum is located in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. It is on the grounds of the Victoria International Airport at 1910 Norseman Road on the east side of the airport. [1] The Museum consists of a display area spread over two hangars, a classroom, a restoration workshop and a gift shop.
Sidney has its own local history museum, the Sidney Museum and Archives, which features displays about the history of the surrounding Peninsula as well as temporary exhibits. As home to the Victoria International Airport Sidney also hosts the British Columbia Aviation Museum which features displays, artifacts, restored historical aircraft and a ...
Townsend House & Pullen Museum, Catonsville, closed in 2021 when the Catonsville Historical Society dissolved and sold the building. [35] U.S. Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen, closed Maryland museum location in 2010, moving to Fort Lee (now Fort Gregg-Adams), Virginia, outdoor exhibits still on display [36]
The development of the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea started in 2004, when the Town of Sidney approved the development proposal to build the Sidney Pier Hotel and condominium project on a waterfront site overlooking Haro Strait. It was approved on the basis that the project would feature a series of community amenities, including 930 square ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
Sidney J A Churchill self-portrait. He was born in Iași, United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia on 1 March 1862 the son of Henry Adrian Churchill (1828–86), who was an archaeologist and British diplomat, and Marie Braniefska (?1839-1905).
A municipal park covers most of its eastern shore except at the southern end, which is home to a Canadian Coast Guard base, a seaplane port known as Victoria Airport Water Aerodrome, and two Canadian Government research facilities – the Institute of Ocean Sciences and GSC Pacific Sidney (formerly the Pacific Geoscience Centre). [1]