St. Roch, Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum was built between 1958 to 1966 to help celebrate the province’s centennial. The buildings, a binary architectural ensemble, were designed by Raymond O. Harrison and Charles B. K. Van Norman.

The first pavilion was executed in an early modernist style while retaining a colorful treatment for the exterior walls. The second pavilion was conceived as a shingles and glass A-frame building. It shelters the RCMP’s historical St. Roch arctic patrol vessel. St. Roch was the was the first ship to cross the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Northwest passage and the first to complete such a trip in both directions.
Outside the museum stands a one hundred feet totem pole, carved in 1958 by Mungo Martin, chief of the Kwakwaka’wakw people.

Source

Exploring Vancouver: The Architectural Guide (Harold Kalman, 2012), Canada's Historic Places, Historic Kitsilano: Northeast Map Guide (VHF), Vancouver Maritime Museum Society website

More information

http://www.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com/permanent-exhibit/st-roch-national-historic-site