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PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives
About PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives
Museum and archives in Lincoln, Port Coquitlam, holding documents, photographs, and objects from the city's CPR roundhouse roots.
Port Coquitlam grew up around the CPR roundhouse, and every town with that kind of history needs a place to keep it. The PoCo Heritage Museum and Archives plays that role, holding the documents, photographs, and objects that tell how the city came to be what it is. Railway work drew families to the town, and their stories make up much of the record. The mainline still crosses the city today, and the heritage strip on Shaughnessy Street carries the old downtown's memory above street level. Without a museum and archives, material like that scatters and disappears. With one, it stays available to anyone curious about where they live.
For residents, a visit is a chance to see familiar streets and buildings in a longer light. For newcomers, it is one of the quicker ways to understand a place beyond its subdivisions and shopping strips. Genealogy researchers and students may find the archives side of the operation especially useful for digging into specific people, properties, or events, and museum exhibits give the broader story around those details. An afternoon can easily combine both, particularly when paired with a walk along the heritage strip, and visits can also pair well with the Traboulay PoCo Trail for an afternoon that mixes history with time outdoors. It is the kind of outing that suits a grey Pacific Northwest day as well as a sunny one.
The museum maintains a website, and that is the place to check before planning a visit, since no street address or phone number is listed. Hours, admission details, and any special exhibits are worth confirming in advance. Group visits or school tours may need to be arranged ahead of time, so planning those through the website is worthwhile. Those with family stories, documents, or photographs to share may also want to ask how the archives accepts donations and new material.
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In the Lincoln neighbourhood of Port Coquitlam.
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