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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk: Captain Scott's Scrapbook with Margot Dixon
DESCRIPTION:An intriguing family album is entering the Maritime Museum of BC Collection. We invite you to join Margot Dixon in the gallery when she visits to drop off Captain Scott’s scrapbook; she’ll be sharing details of her research\, and you’ll have a chance to view the scrapbook with her. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nAmongst the family albums her mother had kept\, Margot Dixon found something very curious—Captain Samuel F. Scott’s old scrapbook. Who was this man? And why did her family have his scrapbook? As she read through the book\, full of one-of-a-kind documents\, she soon realized this intriguing scrapbook was much more than a family curiosity. \n\n\n\nFrom the items within the scrapbook and Margot’s own research\, a fascinating story emerged\, one of a life on the high seas in the late nineteenth century\, sailing across some of the most dangerous waters\, facing storms\, shipwrecks\, illness\, war\, mutiny\, and tragedy.  \n\n\n\nBorn in New Brunswick\, Captain Scott\, along with his family\, sailed across the world for various shipping companies. While sailing from England to India\, his wife and two of his children tragically died. Returning to Canada\, he remarried and\, with his family in tow\, sailed three times across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But\, after years at sea and another tragedy\, Captain Scott turned to gold mining in British Columbia\, then explored business opportunities along the west coast of Canada and the United States before his untimely death. \n\n\n\nBased on the documents in Captain Scott’s original scrapbook\, collected during his lifetime\, 1847–1905\, and then transcribed by Margot\, Captain Scott’s Scrapbook provides an intimate account of one of Canada’s most remarkable post-confederate shipmasters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck out the book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\n​As a historian and archivist\, Margot Dixon maintained the archives for The Bank of Nova Scotia and researched social history for interpretive manuals\, including family histories\, for Upper Canada Village using primary source documents. She has presented at conferences for Living History Museums and the Costume Society of Canada as well as published articles in their journals and magazines. 
URL:https://mmbc.bc.ca/event/gallery-talk-margot-dixon/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Event
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