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February Speaker Series with Bill Hanlon: The Ice Man from British Columbia
February 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free / By DonationJoin us at the Rossland Museum at 6 pm on Thursday, February 22nd to hear the story of this discovery of North America’s oldest preserved human remains from Bill Hanlon, one of the hunters who found them. Entry by donation.
One day in August 1999, three men were hunting sheep in Northern BC when they came across something unexpected: human remains and sundry artifacts – a hat, a knife, a bag – emerging from a melting glacier. Archeologists and Indigenous representatives were called in and determined that the remains were of an Indigenous boy in his late teens who had died at least 150 years earlier. Members of the local Champagne and Aishihik First Nations named the unknown man Kwäday Dän Ts’inchi: Long Ago Person Found.
More info/RSVP at rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2024/bill-hanlon
Details
- Date:
- February 22
- Time:
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6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free / By Donation
- Event Category:
- Exhibition/Speakers
- Website:
- https://www.rosslandmuseum.ca/news/2024/bill-hanlon
Organizer
- Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre
- Phone
- 250-362-7722
- info@rosslandmuseum.ca
- View Organizer Website
Other
- Community
- Trail / Rossland
- Organizer Contact Name
- Skylar
- community@rosslandmuseum.ca
- Phone
- 250-362-7722
Venue
- Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre
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1100 Hwy 3B | Junction of Hwys 3B & 22
Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 Canada + Google Map - Phone
- 250-362-7722
- View Venue Website