Museums and history

In Search of Equality: Deconstructing Immigration Experiences to the West Coast of BC

Maritime Museum of British Columbia12 min by bus · 0.7 km

✓ Fits your group

Cost

$150 per class

$9.38 a child for 16

School and group bookings have a non-refundable $10 deposit to hold your date.

Ages & size

Grades 4 to 6

Up to 30 children

Duration

1.5 hours

Year round

Days not published

Book by

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Plan this trip

Fieldy handles all communication and booking for you.

What it actually looks like

Photos from Maritime Museum of British Columbia's website

Our note

Serious subject matter handled through a suitcase activity, so it suits a class that can sit with a hard topic. The museum also lists it for grade 9, so it stretches further than the grade band on the card suggests. The price covers the booking, not each child.

What the children do

A 90 minute school program on immigration to the west coast. Students reflect on what it means to be Canadian, work through a suitcase activity, and consider the legacy of discriminatory immigration policies. The museum lists it for grades 4 to 6 social studies and also for grade 9. It runs at the museum for $150 for the group, in your classroom for $200, or online for $100. Up to 30 students.

Children think and talk about what being Canadian means to them, work through a suitcase activity that asks them to put themselves in the place of a refugee, and discuss how past immigration rules affected people's lives.

Good to know

Ninety minutes for up to 30 children, with a washroom and a baby change table on site and step free access for standard wheelchairs. There is no lunch room and nothing published about bus parking, so plan where to eat and where the bus waits.

Washrooms

We have a gender inclusive, single stall washroom available that has a baby change table. While this should be large enough for a standard wheelchair to fit in, a motorized wheelchair will not.

Lunch space

While we don't offer food or beverages for sale, you're more than welcome to bring along non-messy snacks.

Rain backup

Needs confirmation

Strollers

Needs confirmation

Wheelchair access

Our exhibit space is accessible for standard and motorized wheelchairs. We have push-button door openers on both our entrance and office doors.

Bus parking

The closest city parkade is under the Central Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library on Broughton Street. There is also street parking nearby.

Nearby park

Needs confirmation

Restrictions

Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by a paying adult (aged 18+) for all visits, programs, and workshops.. Pets are welcome. We ask that they remain on a leash at all times.

Getting there

744 Douglas Street, Victoria, BC V8W 3M6

On foot

9 min

By bus

12 min

includes a 9 min wait

Driving

5 min

The dark pin is Victoria.

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