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Cortes Island Museum organizes first ‘Vintage Christmas’

Edwardian-era christmas cards are displayed.
Edwardian-era postcards from the famed Cortes author Gilean Douglas, will be on display at the "Vintage Christmas." Photo courtesy of the Cortes Museum and Archives.
Loni Taylor - CKTZ - Cortes Island • BC | 05-12-2023
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The Cortes Island Museum and Archives is hosting a new type of gathering this holiday season.

As locals can have few places to connect during the winter months, the museum hopes to create more opportunities within its walls, including a “Vintage Christmas,” the first holiday event the museum has ever hosted.

Melanie Boyle, museum director, explained the motivation for the new gathering.

“It's just really a celebration of the season, an opportunity for people to come out and be cozy. “

The Vintage Christmas is an open house that decorates part of the current exhibit, Gilean’s [Douglas] Cabin, into a Vintage holiday theme. 

“So we have a collection of her kind of letters, which is an encapsulation of the year back, way back when, like the 1950s, 60s," Boyle says, describing the setting. "And we also have a lovely selection of vintage Christmas cards, actually postcards from the Edwardian era.”

The gathering is on Saturday, Dec. 9 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The timing coincides with the Mansons Holiday Fair. The Museum continues to stay open from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through the winter. 

To hear more about the festive scene at the Museum this season, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:

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