Canada Guide
Vancouver Island
Maritime Museum
Address: 28 Bastion Square
Opening time: Daily 9.30am–4.30pm
Price: $6
Website: www.mmbc.bc.ca
The modest Maritime Museum is of interest mainly for the lovely chocolate and vanilla coloured building in which it's housed, the former provincial courthouse. Displays embrace old charts, uniforms, ships' bells, old photographs, lots of models and a BC Ferries section on the second floor. On the top floor is the restored vice-admiralty courtroom, once the main seat of justice for the entire province. Note the old open elevator built to reach it, commissioned by Chief Justice Davie in 1901, supposedly because he was too fat to manage the stairs.