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Canada's Marine Heritage
Leaving gallery 1, visitors pass through a virtual kelp forest
and into Canada’s Marine Heritage gallery. Here they can
explore four distinct environments: Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic,
and St. Lawrence/Saguenay. The exhibit examines cultural and natural
environments, with a focus on the historical themes of fishing,
navigation, tourism, harvest of the seas and challenges for the
future.
A large floor map of Canada, and regional discovery benches fill
the gallery’s centre. Visitors can peer beneath the Arctic
ice or play in an interactive Pacific tide pool.
Canada’s Marine Heritage exhibits include:
- Marine Regions;
- Pacific Marine Region – Gulf of Georgia
National Historic Site, Pacific Sound Dome, Kelp Forest, Bear
and Salmon: Native Canoe;
- St. Lawrence/Saguenay – Isle Vert
Lighthouse National Historic Site, Belugas: St. Lawrence Saguenay
Marine Park, Sound Dome, and Mouth of the Saguenay and the Laurentian
Channel;
- Atlantic Marine Region – The Gully,
Bay of Fundy Tides: Fundy National Park, Atlantic Sound Dome,
Red Bay National Historic Site, and Ryan’s Premises National
Historic Site;
- Arctic Marine Region – Arctic Sound
Dome.
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