Award-winning exhibition touring Atlantic Canada
Gatineau, Quebec, June 24 , 2002 - The award-winning exhibition Lifelines: Canada’s East Coast Fisheries has begun a three-year tour that will take its six components to venues throughout the four Atlantic provinces. Lifelines was presented at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) in Gatineau, Quebec from April 2001 to February 2002 and was jointly created by the CMC, the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador, the New Brunswick Museum and the P.E.I. Museum and Heritage Foundation.
Lifelines consists of six complementary exhibits. Two of these, The Cod Rush: The European Fishermen, 1497-1763 and Cross-Currents: 500 Generations of Aboriginal Fishing in Atlantic Canada - both produced by the CMC - will open on June 27 at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, N.B. They will run in conjunction with the New Brunswick Museum’s The Lure of the River: Sport Fishing in New Brunswick. The third CMC exhibit, Swales and Whales: Atlantic Canada’s Sea Mammal Harvest, is currently showing at the Southern Newfoundland Seamen’s Museum in Grand Bank, Nfld.
The curators of the three CMC exhibits - historian Jean-Pierre Chrestien, archaeologist Dr. David Keenlyside, and historian Dr. Peter Rider - will speak at an Atlantic Fisheries Symposium hosted by the New Brunswick Museum on June 26 and 27 in Saint John. The symposium will also feature presentations by curators from the three other museums that produced Lifelines, as well as by experts from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, the University of New Brunswick and the Université de Moncton.
The Lifelines tour will continue until 2005, with the six exhibits travelling to the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry and the Prince Edward Island Museum. All six exhibits will be reunited and shown together from April 2004 to March 2005 at the Provincial Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. John’s, Nfld., where Lifelines will be one of the inaugural exhibitions in the new cultural facility known as The Rooms.
Lifelines was awarded the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award in the Exhibition category by the Canadian Museums Association.
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