A New Concept to preserve Heritage

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A New Concept to preserve Heritage create
Museum Sustainability
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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• It is planned as a complex or cluster of three
• major buildings in the City of Kamloops,
• housing six full size Museums, and many
• Tourist related specialty exhibits.
• Also planned is a large outdoor site to be
• designed in a Heritage Park style, and located
• at Campbell Creek. It will display Heritage
• Equipment such as Heavy Duty Machinery
• from Mining, Military, Agriculture, Forestry,
• and Construction.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• This Centre is being developed as a full service
  Tourist Destination site.
• Circular route Heritage Bus Tours leave from our
  Centre and visit some of British Columbias
  heritage sites, cattle ranches, mines, forestry,
  and other heritage and tourist interest sites.
• After returning to Kamloops they enjoy a ride on
  the 2141 Steam Engine Train or other special
  events available to them.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre
CP Railway Yard
Lorne Street Kamloops BC
Building 2
Building 1
7th.
6th.
Building 3
Old Red Bridge
Pioneer Park
South Thompson River
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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• Building 1.
• Three full size Museums.
• Cultural spaces, multi-cultural.
• Arts and Artisan work spaces.
• Performing Arts, potential for very large
  theatre.
• Kamloops Big Little Science Centre.
• Entire top floor for Convention and Conference
  Centre with full catering.
• Commercial lease spaces for centres revenue.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• Building 2
• Three of our existing Museums, more space.
• Two major sized Tourist Attractions.
• Dozens of working Model Railway exhibits
  portraying railway construction history.
• Gift Shop retails for all museums and artisans.
• Conference/Convention Centre top floor.
• Workshop for Model Railway volunteers.
• Workshop for Artisans and Theatrical needs.
• Commercial lease spaces for revenue.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• Building 3.
• The Heritage Railway Roundhouse.
• Roundhouse visitors see actual restoration work
  being performed by volunteers.
• Pioneer Chinese Railway Workers Museum (CP
  Railway - 1880 to 1885).
• Heritage Railway Station Museum.
• Railway Cars Locomotives yard.
• Steam locomotive 2141 and the heritage train
  station will continue their exciting steam
  engine trips.

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Project Model - Overhead View
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Project Model - Looking South View
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Kamloops Heritage Railway Plans
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Kamloops Heritage Railway Plans
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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• We are planning for 6 large museums.
• Three of our present Kamloops museums will be
  able to relocate into the centre
• Kamloops Museum Archives.
• Rocky Mountain Rangers Military Museum
  Archives.
• Kamloops Fire Department Museum.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre

• The three new Museums will be
• Pioneer Chinese Railway Workers Heroes of
  Confederation Museum. Also an exhibit for the
  Chinese who paid the Head Tax in order to stay or
  to enter Canada.
• Kamloops Heritage Railway Roundhouse Museum,
  joined to our Centre by way of an overhead
  walkway above the Cheng Interchange railway
  track.
• RCMP Museum and 2 RCMP Private Collections.
• British Columbia Police exhibit included.

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Our New Museums
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Heroes of Confederation Museum

• In memory of the Pioneer Chinese Railway Workers
  of 1880 to 1885
• We will reclaim and preserve their culture and
  heritage.
• We will honour them properly for the sacrifices
  they made which then enabled creation of the
  Confederation of Canada, keeping USA railroads
  out of British Columbia.

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Our New Museums
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Kamloops Heritage Railway and Roundhouse Museum

• This museum will be joined to the Heritage Centre
  by way of an overhead walkway above the Cheng
  Interchange railway track.
• Visitors will see the
• Museum and the
• volunteers working
• on refurbishing rail
• cars and steam
• locomotives.

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Our New Museums
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RCMP and Municipal Police Museum

• 2 Private RCMP Collections.
• RCMP Museum in Regina will bridge with our
  museum.
• British Columbia Police history.
• B.C. Municipal Police forces histories.

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Other Inside Exhibits

• The Big Little Science Centre will be able to
  relocate to larger spaces and continue to
  fascinate students visiting from all over BC, and
  for tourists it is a must see also.
• Two major sized Tourist Attractions to be named
  soon.
• Large screen displays showing a BC Map will
  depict each stage and contract of the CPR
  construction 1880 to 1885, and all Railways built
  since.
• Model Railway exhibits will be built on the
  walls surrounding the Tourist sites and many
  other locations to depict how hard it was for
  building railways in BC in mid 1880s and the
  years after for the other railways.

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Interior Exhibits as suggested.

• Interior Indian Bands exhibitions.
• Two Rivers Métis exhibition.
• Multi-Cultural immigration and settlement
  exhibitions.
• Ranching Cowboy exhibition.
• Gold Rush era exhibitions.
• BC minerals and gems exhibition.
• BC Forestry heritage pictures and maps.

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Exterior Exhibits.

• The Heritage Corridor, eastward along the
  Millennium Trail
• A series of concrete Heritage Walls, spaced
  separately over a distance, with inscribed name
  plates to honour our pioneers, for example
• 1. Chinese Railway Workers
• 1880 to 1885 on the Canadian
• Pacific Railway construction.
• 2. Chinese who paid the Head
• Tax to stay or to enter Canada.
• 3. The other multi-cultural
  groups who were early pioneer settlers
  in Western Canada.

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Heritage Walls continued

• Pioneer Ranch owners and Cowboys.
• Pioneer Political Leaders of BC.
• Leaders of Indian Bands Métis.
• Building of highways pioneers.
• Pioneer Leaders building railways.
• Mining industry pioneers.
• Forest industry pioneers.
• BC Chamber of Commerce.

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Heritage Walls continued

• City of Kamloops pioneers
• Town of North Kamloops.
• Brocklehurst.
• Valleyview.
• Dallas / Barnhartvale.
• Rayleigh.
• Other Improvement Areas before amalgamation.
• Municipal pioneers of other BC Towns.

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Heritage Corridor the 10 year plan.

• Miniature Steam Train, Stagecoach, Hayride Wagon,
  and a Paddlewheel River Boat as varied fun
  methods of historical transport between the BC
  Wildlife Park area and the Heritage Centre.
• A walk, bicycle path, and mini-road with Walls of
  Honour, History Kiosks, serviced rest areas in
  strategic locations along the way.
• A Small Tour Bus could also be available, and
  perhaps the Heritage Railway 2141.

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The Heritage Centres Goals

• To be a Heritage, Cultural, Science, and Arts
  focal centre for the City of Kamloops and the
  entire region.
• To provide spaces for community workshops, and
  educational purposes in the Cultural, Arts,
  Science, and Heritage awareness sectors.

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The Centres Goals - continued

• To be a Tourist Destination venue that will
  excite the travelling public and encourage them
  to stay longer and enjoy all the other amenities
  that will be offered in Kamloops.
• To be the launch site for circular Tours to other
  BC sites, which then return tourists back to
  Kamloops for additional overnight stays.

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The Centres Goals - continued

• To be a benefit to Kamloops City and the Thompson
  Nicola Regional District by creating a much
  higher tourism rate, with a larger percentage
  wanting an extra overnight stay.
• To work closely with downtown businesses and
  those throughout the City to increase their share
  of tourist shopping revenues.
• To work closely with all the TNRD locations which
  are interested in providing heritage stopping
  sites for our Circle Tours.

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The Centres Goals - continued

• Work closely with other BC areas with historic
  sites to ensure complete heritage coverage by the
  Circle Tours.
• Annually to expand our Heritage Corridor along
  the South Thompson River east to the BC Wildlife
  Park and our Military, Mining, Agricultural Heavy
  Equipment Compound and Outdoor Museum area.

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Western Canada Heritage Centre will balance the
Budget with revenues from

• Retail spaces leasing, meeting room rentals.
• Guided tours, Entry Fees.
• Gift Shop, Coffee Counters, Family Food Fun.
• Rooftop full-view conference restaurant.
• Large convention catering.
• Membership Fees, and Friends of WCHC Fees.
• Corporate Ads donations.
• Foundation Funds and In Memoriam gifts.
• Fees for sales of local and Circle Tours in BC.

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Proposed Schedule of Project

• Funding Program to be initiated - January of
  2009.
• Feasibility Study completed July 31, 2009.
• Business plan completed - October 31, 2009.
• Architectural concept complete December 31, 2009.
• Architectural/Engineering Plans March 31, 2010.
• Call for Bids, Phase 1 May, 2010 for July,
  2010.
• Winning Bid decision September, 2010.
• Construction start Feb./March, 2011.
• Construction completed Phase 1 - May/June, 2012.

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Ongoing Action
To honour the Pioneer Chinese Railway Workers
1880/1885, on Saturday, May 28, 2006 the CP
Railway re-named the Interchange track which
crosses Lorne Street. It is now officially named
Cheng Interchange.
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Ongoing Action
Heroes of Confederation

• We were pleased to announce in early November
  2005 that we had received an official
  Proclamation by the Province of BC that the week
  Nov. 1st to 7th inclusive, is now an officially
  proclaimed time to honour those Pioneer Chinese
  Railway Workers of 1880 - 1885.

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Ongoing Action

• Kamloops Heritage Railway Engine 2141
• Continues to thrill visitors on the Steam Engine
  Train Rides, and so does Bill Miner, our
  historical Train Robber.
• There will be other new and exciting events or
  destinations as soon as available.

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Thank You

• We thank you for your interest in our project
  and look forward to inviting you to the grand
  opening.
• If you would like to volunteer your time and
  expertise, or to help the project financially, or
  donate artefacts, photos, please contact
• Lyle Anderson - Phone [phone]
• Website www.wchca.ca