The First People’s Gallery is one of the three permanent galleries of the Royal BC Museum (the other two are the Natural History Gallery and the Becoming BC Gallery). Unfortunately, there was a large section of the gallery that was closed while under redesign. The lightning conditions were difficult (as you may be able to tell), so color rendition is left to your imagination. I thought it was a great display and would recommend anyone take it in if they were in Victoria.
The garden areas are still nice … just starting to slow signs of the ending of the blooming season.
These wonderful old doors are on the old cannery building in downtown Port Townsend. The building is now used as a private residence or office. The folks that live or work there are not very friendly … I assume that they get tired of folks knocking on the doors wanting to see inside.
Back to the Hastings Building (again). Just a sample of the assorted junk and gunk left after a building stays abandoned. There was one episode of squatters … the scariest of which was when it was discovered they had build a fire on one of the floors… leaving a burn mark. As dry as the interior is, it would not have taken much time to have the whole building engulfed. But there is just a lot of junk and trash. Great for photography, though.
These are a few more of the photos I took from my recent trip to the Hastings Building. (Downtown Port Townsend, currently vacant, built in 1899). The first is looking up in the main hallway and the second is looking down that hallway to one of the rooms facing the main street.
