The Barkerville Heritage Trust is seeking proposals from interested parties for the purpose of issuing a contract for the Indigenous Interpretation Program at Barkerville Historic Town & Park. This contract will require a team of no fewer than three (3) people to to facilitate the daily delivery (seven days per week throughout the contract term) […]
The Barkerville Heritage Trust is seeking proposals from interested parties for the purpose of issuing a contract for the Home Life Interpretation Program at Barkerville Historic Town & Park. This contract will require a team of no fewer than three (3) people interpret activities in the Schoolhouse and the Wendle House. The Home Life Interpretation […]
December 17, 2019 (Barkerville, BC) – Barkerville Historic Town & Park, the largest gold rush heritage attraction in Western North America, announced last night at its annual staff Christmas social that a new producer has been found for the Theatre Royal’s 2020 operating season. “Newman & Wright Theatre Company, who’ve successfully operated the Theatre Royal […]
December 4, 2019 (Barkerville, BC) – It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and Barkerville Historic Town & Park is celebrating the holidays with its annual Old-Fashioned Victorian Christmas, Saturday through Monday, December 14-16. “We have some exciting new activities planned for this year’s event,” said Jillian Merrick, Barkerville’s Manager of Preservation & Presentation. […]
November 21, 2019 (Barkerville, BC) – Unique Chinese and Canadian histories are being shared across the world thanks to a recent project partnership between Guangxi Normal University Press in China, and Barkerville Historic Town & Park’s archives in British Columbia. Thousands of Barkerville’s gold rush-era Chinese language archival materials will soon be published by the […]
November 5, 2019 (Barkerville, BC) – Newman & Wright Theatre Company, the partnership of Richard Wright and Amy Newman, announced today that they are concluding their sixteen-year run as the principal operators of the Theatre Royal in Barkerville Historic Town & Park, effective November 2, 2019. The Theatre Royal will continue to provide professional historical […]
October 8, 2019 (Barkerville, BC) – The Barkerville Heritage Trust announced today that Ed Coleman, Chief Executive Officer of Barkerville Historic Town & Park and Cottonwood House Historic Site, will retire from his position on June 21, 2020. Mr. Coleman will continue to manage all functions at Barkerville and Cottonwood House until that time. “We […]
Photographing the dress collection presented special challenges. Unlike the smaller pieces, dresses are long and bulky and don’t fit easily on a table. I needed a way to take long flat photos without putting too much pressure on the dress’s shoulders. I experimented with a few different methods before settling on a final arrangement. First, […]
Fashion in the 1920s conjures images of flappers wearing cloches and beaded dresses. Following the ‘20s were the lace and smooth bias cut dresses of the 1930s. Barkerville Historic Town and Park works hard to preserve and present clothing from this time period and others. The Barkerville Heritage Trust has a large collection of […]
Barkerville closing for the season inspires a whole slew of emotions. The day after the Barkerville season officially ends, when the last of our guests have checked out of the B&Bs and are headed off down Highway 26, is a shock to the system. For many long-time Barkerville “residents” the shock of going from […]
