By Roy L Hales<\/p>\n
Managing Director\u00a0Jane Newman<\/a>\u00a0talks about one the\u00a0Cortes Island Museum<\/a>\u2018s biggest loses during the\u00a0pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe miss our community. We had a lot of visitors this summer, most of them from Vancouver Island or [other parts of] British Columbia and we had some people from Cortes Island \u2013 but we really do miss that regular interaction,\u201d she said. \u201cThe culture of the museum is a gathering place and story telling space.\u201d<\/p>\n In a normal year, people drop in when they go shopping, or visit the health centre etc.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of people didn\u2019t do that this year,\" she said. \"People had an adversity to enclosed spaces, which I totally understand. We were lucky to see 50 per cent of our [normal] numbers this summer, but there were fewer locals and more visitors to the island.\u201d<\/p>\n She misses the story telling and regular visits from people who have been members of the museum for years.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was mask wearing and a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. You don\u2019t spend as much time talking when you are wearing a mask. If you don\u2019t want to wear one, you wouldn\u2019t even come to the museum because we did require everyone to wear a mask,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Roy L Hales Managing Director\u00a0Jane Newman\u00a0talks about one the\u00a0Cortes Island Museum\u2018s biggest loses during the\u00a0pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":11810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[1631,536],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}