Winter Market and Moss Cottage Christmas
Saturday December 7, 2024 11am-4pm
The popular Winter Market and Moss Cottage Christmas returns on December 7, 2024. Aunt Tilly will lead tours of Moss Cottage, decorated for the season in 1902 style. The Winter Market features artists and makers from the Sooke Region and beyond. All products sold at the Winter Market are made, baked, raised, caught, and wild harvested or 100% grown by the vendor. Vendors include the return of some familiar faces from the Summer Night Market as well as new vendors.
Family Day Event
Saturday Feb 15, 2025: 11am-3pm
Built in 1869, Moss Cottage is the oldest standing pioneer home west of Victoria. In 1977, the owner donated the historic cottage to the Sooke Region Historical Society, who relocated the building to our museum grounds. For Family Day Weekend, visitors to the cottage will be welcomed inside by our interpretive guide in the character of Matilda “Aunt Tilly” Gordon who is raising her two children on her own, in 1902. Household tasks of the turn of the century are demonstrated by Aunt Tilly as she chats with visitors.
The lighthouse was built on Triangle Island in 1910. Lightkeepers and their families lived at this remote outpost under the most dreadful conditions. Historian Lanny Seaton will welcome visitors on Family Day Weekend to share his stories of life at the lighthouses of Vancouver Island as well as the saga of the journey of this lighthouse from Triangle Island (off Cape Scott, on the northern tip of Vancouver Island) to the Sooke Region Museum.
“We Needed You Yesterday”
Friday 8 November, 2024 1:30pm
in the Events Pavilion
Join us on Indigenous Veterans Memorial Day for a presentation by Collections & Exhibits Manager, Emma Wilton, to learn about the lives and legacies of Frank Planes and Frank Richardson, two Sooke men who served during World War II.
Tea, coffee, and snacks will be served.
Free admission.
You are also invited to visit the museum to see the temporary display of Frank Planes service medals and Frank Richardson’s letters. The display will continue to December 2024.