46 - Wednesday, October 28, 1987 - North Shore News

e artifact

THE VANCOUVER Muscum has
become home to one of two 38-ton
sandstone columns lifted from the

umns from the wreck on October
14. One will be returned to the
quarry site at Newcastle Island.

bandit

CAUGHT IN the act!
This raccoon and her
family were unexpected
dinner guests at a North
Shore home recently.
Chicken eggs left at the
back door of the home
created a feast for the
furry bandit.

wreck of the barque Zepher (1872)
off Mayne Island.

The columns were quarried over
115 years ago on Newcastle Island,

and were bound for construction :

of the San Francisco mint on Feb-
tuary 13, 1872. The ship struck the
rocky. shore of Mayne Island in an
early morning snowstorm and

sank, taking the captain and one.

other crew member with her.
The . Underwater. ‘Archaeology
Society of B.C., under permit
from the B.C. Heritage Conserva-
tion Branch, lifted ‘the two col-

The second was transported by

. barge to Kitsilano and lifted into

place outside the entrance to the
Vancouver Maritime Museum.

“These columns have always-

fascinated divers because of where
they. were going,’’ said museum
director Robin: Inglis. ‘‘We - are
very pleased to be receiving such

an important reminder of British

Columbia's rich maritime heritage,
and hope one day to accommodate
it as the centrepiece of a marine
archaeology gallery in a new
museum.”

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