Today,Terry and I went to two museums in town; The Fraser Fort George Regional Museum and the Museum of Railroads and Forestry.
The Fraser, also known as The Exploritorium, was a nice little museum with a marvelous special exhibit on genetics, genetic engineering and cloning. There were several regular exhibits still open and I was pretty impressed with those that dealt with the natural world and the First Nations.
The Museum of Railroads and Forestry was located on River Road across from some absolutely huge lumber mills that produced plywood and chipboard by the square mile. The museum has acquired many, many pieces of rolling stock from the railroad over the years and has them scattered about the yard and old round table. There are also several immense pieces of lumbering equipment as well as a small building filled with antique chainsaws.
I took lots of pictures but have yet to go through and process them. I'll post them as soon as I can.
This evening we took a bus downtown to the Cariboo Steak & Seafood Restaurant for our farewell dinner. It turned out to be an enjoyable (if somewhat emotional) evening. Tomorrow morning there will be coffee and... at the leaders' rigs and a real farewell as we scatter to the four winds.
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