Sooke Region Museum

10/15/2026

Sooke Spook | Saturday 24 Oct | 5-7pm

Explore this free event at the Museum grounds and peek in the buildings to see if characters from local history have come back for this one evening (or is it just their ghosts?).

10/14/2026

Songstress Locals
TONIGHT, Wednesday 14 October | 7pm
$20 admission at the door (children free)
at the Sooke Region Museum

Join Opal Dar, E3GI, and Kat Kadoski in the Fireside Pavilion as they perform in a Songstress Circle for this month’s Singer Songwriter sessions and celebrate Women’s History Month.

10/13/2026

Eric Pyrah at the first Fall Fair, near the first Sooke Hall, in the area of what is now Sheilds, Eustace and Sooke Roads, 1913.

Identification: Eric Pyrah is a cousin of Throup family. He is displaying his cured hams.

SRHS #1712

10/12/2026

This Thanksgiving, we give thanks for our community members. We thank everyone who joins us for our programs and events, volunteers their time to keep the museum going, and donates their precious belongings that help tell the story of the Sooke Region.

We also give thanks to the natural world that sustains and nourishes us all! Happy Thanksgiving!

10/10/2026

Men's Shed

Next Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 10am to 1pm at the Sooke Region Museum.

Join W***y in the workshop where men work on personal or community projects in a collaborative atmosphere.

Current project: building templates to make rocking donkeys.

More info here: https://sookeregionmuseum.ca/sooke-mens-shed/

10/09/2026

Thanksgiving Weekend Hours🦃

10/09/2026

Plant Teachings From My Auntie is now available in the museum gift shop! Check out this up coming event at the Royal BC Museum!

We're heading to the Royal BC Museum on October 13 and we'd love for you to come with us.

Snuneymuxw Elder and Knowledge Keeper C’tasi:a, Geraldine Manson and ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner will be sharing stories from Plant Teachings from My Auntie, their book on gathering Coast Salish plants for medicine, textiles, food and ceremony. It's a rare chance to hear these teachings in person, straight from the authors.

📅 Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 PM
📍 Royal BC Museum, 675 Belleville St., Victoria

Bring a friend (or two).

👉 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3VtYjAp

10/08/2026

Author Talk: TONIGHT, October 8th at 7pm!
Events Pavilion at the Sooke Region Museum!

Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother
By Elder Bill Jones and Karen Moe
Publisher: Dundurn Press

In 2020–2021, settlers and First Nations people held what became Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience — the Fairy Creek Blockades — in Port Renfrew, British Columbia. During this fight to save some of the province’s and the world’s last remaining old-growth forest, the protesters experienced a collective transformation and were reacquainted with our Great Mother. As Elder Bill sat in a tent during a West Coast storm at the height of the Blockades, he experienced the final phase of his personal decolonization when he had a realization that has informed his life ever since.

Weaving together the stories of Elder Bill’s personal life and those of his ancestors with Elder teachings, settler feminism, and the story of the Blockades, Listening Once Again to Our Great Mother shares wisdom that will inspire readers to reach their own self-awakening, now and for generations to come.

10/06/2026

Logging, above Sooke Potholes, 1948.

Identification: Shows loading operations; Eddie Eve in front of truck, Richard Arden behind. Hauling from Weilers property.

SRHS # 3710