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As a non-profit society in the province of British Columbia, Canada, we are a membership driven organization with a focus on promoting, encouraging and facilitating interest in wooden boats and operating the Wooden Boat Centre in New Westminster.
- To promote, encourage and facilitate interest in wooden boats and any and all activities involving and related to wooden boats
- To promote, organize and sponsor any activities involving and related to wooden boats.
- To provide information and any forms of assistance to owners and potential owners of wooden boats and wooden boat enthusiasts.
- To disseminate information with regard to wooden boats through all means, including exhibits and displays.
- To co-operate with public and private agencies, governmental departments and other groups, organizations and individuals.
In 1986, the society organized the first annual Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival as a feature during the Vancouver World Exposition (Expo 86). For five months, visitors from around the world visited Vancouver’s inner harbour to take in the many displays, sites and country’s exhibits and for several weeks of the summer they toured wooden boats at the docks. The legacy of the Festival as lived on for 30 years now and has become one of the longest running public events in the city.