The Sointula Museum — Attraction in Area A (Seymour Inlet/Knight Inlet)

Terrific museum. Admission is by donation. I enjoy the way it captures the fabric of everyday life at the time including the social activities and old newspapers. While the collective dream was short-lived, those that stayed created a resilient, vibrant community. In addition, as someone with Finnish heritage, it brings back memories of growing up in a place filled with Finnish immigrants. Always a...

Excellent covid safe welcome and in the winter it was easy to make an appointment to visit through a couple of text messages.

There are three rooms which take you through geology, First Nations and Finnish settler history.

The artifacts give you a good view of social life as well as working life, and the cultural roots.

This is definitely...

This was a very worthwhile stop and extremely informative as to a wide scope of history of Sointula, before the Finns arrived, and their story. Many wonderful artifacts on site and stories posted behind where they came from. Will have to visit again just to absorb the amount of history contained in...