Wesley A. Wenhardt

North Vancouver Museum moves to spacious new home in Shipyards District

MONOVA director Wesley Wenhardt with a restored streetcar that used to run up-and-down Lonsdale. PHOTO BY NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

The North Vancouver Museum has always had an impressive collection. The problem was, it didn’t have the room to properly display it. The 16,000 square foot museum cost $7 million, and is on the ground floor of a Polygon condo development, Promenade at the Quay.

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Leader looks back on six eventful years at Foss Waterway Seaport (Tacoma News Tribune)

Wesley Wenhardt’s favorite part of working at the Foss Waterway Seaport, he says, is seeing the lights of the building from a distance when he’s on a boat out on the water.

“You kind of imagine what it must have been like when you were first approaching as a ship,” he said. “If one of those longshoremen could come back and see what it looks like now, I wonder what they’d say.”

Wenhardt ends his six-year tenure as executive director of the Foss Waterway Seaport this week, but he won’t be leaving the water anytime soon.

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Our Culture is Not Going Anywhere (Tacoma News Tribune)

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Kalakala (The Seattle Times)

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