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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dan Black presents Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia
DESCRIPTION:A riveting and highly researched naval history of a famous Canadian steamship\, the Empress of Asia\, and the personalities and world events intersecting its history–presented right here in Victoria at the Maritime Museum of BC! \n\n\n\nAuthor Daniel Robert Black will launch Oceans of Fate: Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia (Dundurn Press) on March 14\, 2025 in the MMBC gallery at 744 Douglas Street. This launch is included in admission\, and free for MMBC members. \n\n\n\nA Q&A and book signing will follow the presentation. Copies of Oceans of Fate will be available for purchase in the MMBC gift shop. \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\nThe remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history. \n\n\n\nCompleted in 1913 for Canadian Pacific\, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly 30 years. Built for long-haul ocean travel during peace-time\, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive-bombers destroyed her in 1942. \n\n\n\nThrough the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression\, she brought continents and people together\, delivering mail and multimillion-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner\, she was a “Greyhound of the Pacific\,” braving epic storms and smashing transpacific speed records. From stokehold to bridge\, steerage to first-class staterooms\, she steamed with a kaleidoscope of lives\, including courageous and recalcitrant crew\, immigrants and refugees seeking a better life or relief from disaster\, drug smugglers\, weapons dealers\, and the idle and not-so-idle rich. \n\n\n\nThis is the dramatic story of how that one ship and the lives of those on board intersected during a tumultuous period of world history\, culminating in her sinking off Singapore in the Second World War. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nDan Black is the former editor of Legion Magazine and author or co-author of three previous books\, including Harry Livingstone’s Forgotten Men: Canadians and the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War. He lives near Ottawa.
URL:https://mmbc.bc.ca/event/book-launch-daniel-robert-black-presents-oceans-of-fate-peace-and-peril-aboard-the-steamship-empress-of-asia/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Community Day
DESCRIPTION:It’s World Water Day! The Maritime Museum of BC will be open with admission by donation all day long.  \n\n\n\nSee the Pacific in Peril: Climate Change\, the Warming Ocean\, and How to Turn the Tide exhibit\, complete an Activity Book for pirate’s treasure\, and check out interactive anchor and knotmaking stations!
URL:https://mmbc.bc.ca/event/community-day-6/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Seaside Chats: Solutions for Ocean Sustainability 
DESCRIPTION:Join us on World Water Day to learn more about what is happening in our community to conserve our ocean ecosystems and find solutions in the face of climate change. Hear from two speakers featured in our current exhibit\, Pacific in Peril\, as they discuss their work at Ocean Networks Canada and SeaChange. Understand the work that is currently being done\, ask questions\, and learn what you can do to support our oceans.   \n\n\n\n\nJustin Lisaingo is the Operations Manager of Seachange Marine Conservation Society. He is especially keen to explore how multidisciplinary sciences and cultural knowledge can collaboratively benefit coastal and ocean ecosystem management  \n\n\n\nHe has worked extensively in the marine public aquarium industry\, where he specialized in marine species identification and equipment and logistics management. He can usually be found in the forest examining mushrooms and leafhoppers\, while doing archery. He is also highly food-motivated and would argue that marine biology is the most delicious of the sciences.  \n\n\n\n\n\nMartin Scherwath is a Senior Staff Scientist at Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) responsible for geophysical experiments in the fields of gas hydrates\, seabed dynamics\, and geological carbon storage. Martin holds an M.Sc. from Leeds University and a Ph.D. in geophysics from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. He joined ONC in 2011 and was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria.  \n\n\n\n\nIn celebration of World Water Day\, the Maritime Museum of BC will be open by donation from 9:30am to 4:30pm. By registering for this event\, you can enjoy the Museum any time before or after Seaside Chats.  \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is optional but strongly encouraged.   \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://mmbc.bc.ca/event/seaside-chats-solutions-for-ocean-sustainability/
LOCATION:The Maritime Museum of BC\, 744 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W3M6\, Canada
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