Hello! My name is Sasha Striegler Iannone, and I am the new curator for the 2017 season.
I have five years’ worth of museum experience, serving first as a historical interpreter at the Vanderhoof Community Museum between 2009 and 2012, and then as the Bastion Coordinator at the Nanaimo Museum for the 2013 season.
In addition, my family has lived in the Vanderhoof area since 1912, and being a part of the education on and collection and preservation of my hometown’s history is something of which I’m incredibly proud. The museum will be open May 20 to September 2017 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, and then from September to October 9 with reduced hours. Please come by and visit us!
Starting us off this season, we have a project by the Nechako Valley Historical Society. The Society would like to compile a list of the first 150 settler families in the Vanderhoof area in celebration of marking 150 years of confederation. We would like to recognize that Vanderhoof is founded on traditional Saik’uz territories and to respect the history of the Saik’uz First Nation as we do this. If you have information and dates on families pre-1926, or any early stories of mutual reciprocity between Indigenous and settler families, please contact curator@district.vanderhoof.ca. We look forward to your contributions!